Sunflower Farmers Market, the anti-Whole Foods, will open its Ross and Henderson location at the end of February or beginning of March, says Marc Andres, whose family-owned company owns the building. Coincidence? This is about the same time that Whole Foods is telling employees it will open its new Lakewood store.
Why anti-Whole Foods? Sunflower’s founder, Mike Gilliland, helped start Wild Oats, which Whole Foods now owns. “There is a tremendous demand for an alternative to the high-price format that’s predominated natural foods,” says Gilliland. The Colorado-based Sunflower has a couple of dozen other stores, including one in Plano.
After the jump, a couple of other neighborhood retail- and restaurant related notes.
• Two new restaurants for the Albertson’s center at Mockingbird and Abrams: Lovers Lane Pizza, which has locations at Buckner and Garland and Lovers and the tollway, and Ginger Thai, which is at Forest near Marsh. The latter replaces Han’s Express, the Chinese takeout.
• Kitchen 1924’s Shawn Horne has been named general manager at Wolfgang Puck’s new restaurant, 560, at Reunion Tower. The news release calls Horne, who closed Kitchen 1924 earlier this year, “a familiar and revered face in Dallas’ dining scene.”
