The corner stall just inside the entrance of The Market at Dallas Farmers Market is between lives. For nearly a decade, it belonged to Caribbean Cabana, the Jamaican restaurant relocating to another space nearby. Soon, it will become the first permanent home of Insurgent.
A few weeks ago, I met Insurgent’s married chefs Sam and Gabby Lopez at a table facing their future home. At the time, a crew was hard at work preparing for the opening and hoisting the new signage for Insurgent into place so that it hung correctly.
The duo built Insurgent from a Denton food trailer that, Sam jokes, “swayed if someone moved too quickly inside.” Now they are preparing for a permanent kitchen that will allow chef’s counter dinners and the kind of culinary experiences that four wheels (and unpredictable equipment) would not always support…