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Monday, July 9, 2012

Ten Bells Tavern in Bishop Arts opens with “butty” on the menu


Sandwich has penny-pinching roots.

— Oak Cliff restaurant-bar Ten Bells Tavern opened last week with a menu that includes a new item to Dallas called the "butty."

It's basically a French fries sandwich -- i.e., a layer of French fries between two slices of bread. It's also known as a "chip butty," revealing its English roots, since they call French fries "chips." The sandwich was originally a penny-pincher's delight -- designed as a way to avoid wasting old French fries, and is generally served with some kind of sauce. According to Ten Bells owner Meri Dahlke, Ten Bells serves it with a ramekin of house-made Jack Daniels mustard. They also add cheese to the sandwich, making it a kind of grilled cheese.

The closest parallel in these parts is the tendency for people to insert chips -- Fritos and the like -- inside their sandwich.

The word butty is a contraction of "bread and butter"; the sandwich is $9. Ten Bells is named for a bar in England and loosely follows a British theme. Other menu items include:

  • pickled eggs in rotating flavors such as curry and jalepeno
  • a Cobb salad ($12)
  • baby beet salad ($10)
  • fish & chips ($14)
  • a three-cheese grilled cheese sandwich with Jarlsberg, mozzarella, and cheddar ($9)
  • chicken-Cobb sandwich ($12); and wings ($9)

The bar is open until 2 a.m., but the restaurant closes at 10 p.m.



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Travis Bush, verified:

Nice folks there..stopped in Saturday after a long motorcycle ride just to check it out..they weren't quite open, but were good enough to cure the thirsty. I'll be back.

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Nancy Nichols, verified:

They should add nuts to it...

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Teresa Gubbins, staff:

Nutty Buddy!

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Michael4497, anonymous:

I promise there are no "old French fries" in that sandwich!

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Teresa Gubbins, staff:

Michael4497, that's good to hear, although it should be stated that we're not snobby about old French fries. sortof like day-old pizza -- has a certain charm. but the butty in that photo on Ten Bells' Facebook page (which we "borrowed") looks pretty dang fresh

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mezzetin_subaquatic, anonymous:

as in jam butty.

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Kirby, anonymous:

Add some pulled pork to it, and you could have a Butt Buddy. And probably a heart attack, too.

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alexander troup, verified:

Things and places are a gamble in this day and age, then again, new is fun an old well,...l it better be good an old and some places are classic,Once upon a time it was the Bishop Grill..A/T

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