Far Out
Far Out cooks Sichuan pork with pickled okra, crispy bak kwa and a pool of plum sauce, and pours a pilsner beside it.1
Why go
The Infatuation's Kevin Gray scored it 8.5 in September 2026.1 The kitchen is run by the former Petra and the Beast chef.1 Misti Norris, who opened Petra and the Beast and was a Food & Wine Best New Chef in 2019, came on as a consultant here after that room closed in 2024.4 The James Beard Foundation made it a semifinalist for Best New Restaurant in January 2026.2 The room itself is a metal Quonset hut on South Haskell with a succulent garden beside it.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: the rock shrimp. Kevin Gray: it pairs
springy shrimp with the cooling crunch of smoked cucumbers,
in a broth of fig whey and lemon leaf that issweet and tart.
1 - Drink a pilsner with it.1
- Avoid: expecting numbing heat from that pork.
We wish this Sichuan pork had more mala tingle, but it's still great.
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What locals & experts say
- The Infatuation, Kevin Gray, 8.5, September 2026:
it's the best dining experience you can have inside a metal Quonset hut and next to a succulent garden.
1 - Anastacia Quinones-Pittman, three-time Beard semifinalist for Best Chef: Texas, names it among the three Dallas rooms she eats at:
Meridian, SeaPot and Far Out.
5 - Gray on what the kitchen does:
expect lots of pickled and fermented things, local produce, and less common cuts.
1 - The James Beard Foundation made it a Best New Restaurant semifinalist in 2026. It did not advance.2
Good to know
- Petra and the Beast closed in 2024 after a move to a bigger room in Lakewood that did not work, and the Dallas Morning News recorded the closure
to much mourning.
4 - Norris is named as a consultant rather than as the head chef, and I haven't found the head chef named anywhere.41
Verdict
should-visit — A kitchen that pickles and ferments its way through local produce and less common cuts, in a Quonset hut, with a beer list built to drink against it. Order the rock shrimp with smoked cucumbers and spoon up the fig whey, then the Sichuan pork, and put a pilsner next to both.