![]() Julian Barsotti is preparing to open a sister Italian restaurant, Fachini, above Perfect Union. It's one of two new restaurants from high-profile Dallas restaurateurs opening this summer in Highland Park Village. In short, Perfect Union takes Nick Badovinus back to his simpler concepts, such as burger joint Off-Site Kitchen, before the $100 wood-fired steaks and luxury tater tots of Town Hearth. There's also sangria ($10), a small menu of wines by the bottle and, in keeping with current trends, plenty of wines on tap. There's fun to be had on the drink menu, too, which boasts a section devoted to low-ABV spritzes ($9) likely to be popular during the hot summer months. There are other dishes on the menu, too - vegetables like warm carrots and ricotta, a caprese salad, spaghetti and meatballs - but the real magic here lies on the pizza menu. You can build your own pizza here, but the no-substitutions-allowed pies on the menu are fun explorations of uncommon pizza toppings. The Jonny Slapps ($18), a white pie with guanciale (cured cheek or jowl), pea tendril, "cream redux" and egg, sounds like a stretch but was hard not to finish in one sitting although each 10-inch pizza is enough to feed two people. The menu is filled with Badovinus' signature humor, from a pizza named #Jeff (a white pie with scamorza cheese, Canadian bacon, roasted pineapple, shishitos and red onion, $17) to the Scampi? But of Course, another white pizza topped with rock shrimp, vodka sauce, red onion, garlic salt and pea tendrils.īeth Rankin The My Sharona ($16), a red pie topped with soppressata, charred pepperonata and calabrian chili, got an intense punch of heat from the chili that proved so punchy, it was better when the peppers were scraped onto the plate. The oven-fired pizzas, made with 24-hour fermented dough, are pleasantly crisp but still have the chewiness that proves comforting in a good pizza. While Neapolitan pizza still seems to be a popular trend in Dallas, Perfect Union doesn't go that route. The music oscillates between cool Oak Cliff hipster and ironic Oak Cliff hipster, which somehow works for the laid-back space. In an interesting twist, the night's staff - both front-of-house and back - are listed by full name on the menu board. On a menu board mounted to the wall, Perfect Union lists some of its sources, some local, some not: spicy sausage from Jimmy's, Canadian bacon from Nueskes, ice cream from Howdy Homemade. ![]() Staff members wear mismatched T-shirts from various Dallas businesses such as Oak Cliff's Local Moto - but none of them belong to Badovinus. Beth Rankin One of the first things you'll notice upon arriving is the staff attire.
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