Stephan Pyles’ Flora Street Café is a work of art

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Among his many talents, chef Stephan Pyles has an intuitive sense of time and place, and that’s evident at Flora Street Café, his grand new restaurant in Dallas’ Arts District. Pyles was on the front line of the revival of Dallas’ central business district when he opened his eponymous restaurant on Ross Avenue in 2005. By the time that closed in April 2016, downtown Dallas had become a happening place to be.

His new restaurant is only a few blocks away but sits in the Hall Arts complex in the center of the Arts District, across the street from the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the AT&T Performing Arts Center, with floor-to-ceiling windows looking out onto the street. If you’re seated by a window, there’s something exciting about seeing crowds of arts patrons streaming in and out of the venues, and the restaurant provides an obvious and convenient stopping point, before or after, for anyone catching a show…