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Friday, November 21, 2008

Dallas officials unleash $23-million renovation of Union Station with ceremony and tasting

By Teresa Gubbins

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DALLAS — Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert presided over a ceremony welcoming the $23-million renovation of Union Station in downtown Dallas, and the installation of Wolfgang Puck Catering for on-site food-service -- in the nick of time for holiday parties and other potential rental opportunities.

The remodeled space has a massive main hall and seven smaller rooms for weddings, conferences, Christmas parties, and the like. They've taken what used to be an ugly, dank-smelling dump and turned it into something nice and a little bit vintage-y looking. Many original fittings in the 1915 building have been preserved, including woodwork, brass fixtures, tile floors, unique windows and glasswork, and so on.

The staff includes Shawn Horne, who joined the group a short time after shutting down his Lakewood restaurant, Kitchen 1924.

In addition to covering the facility's banquet needs, Wolfgang Puck will also operate the restaurant at the top of Reunion Tower, which is now scheduled to open in January, and which has yet to be named.

Buffet items were bite-sized and included pulled pork baby sandwiches, short ribs, Chinese chicken salad, salmon, cod, beets with goat cheese, green beans, spicy stir-fry with tofu and shrimp, mushroom truffle ravioli, plus sweets that included mango pudding and fruit soups.

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Russ Vandeveerdonk

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Thanks for the update, so STILL NO name for his new restaurant on top of Reunion Tower? I voted in a name, (to wolfgang@wolfgangpuckdallas.com) but no-one ever responded. For the record, "La Reunion" was my named choice, if they use it, I get free dinners there for a year, they said, so Alexander Troup, Gubbins, Scott Doyle, Pavel, Travis Bush, Jason Rice and all the other bloggers, dinner will be on me, RussJFK! IF I WIN! We can have a pow-wow up in the dome, we could solve the worlds and Dallas' problems together!! All in the same room!;)

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geopunk

geopunk Anonymous

Im pretty sure that my entry will win Russ!!!! Ha so take that!

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Donna Chen

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How was the food, TG? Those roasted beet/goat cheese thingies look good!

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Travis Bush

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You know., I'm wondering why doesn't someone do something about the West End Marketplace? I swear Dallas is like some kid with ADD..when one toy breaks or gets boring, the child moves on to some other shiny thing for ten minutes until that flops and so on..

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