Eater Dallas
In 2020, chef Stephan Pyles closed down his final Dallas restaurant and announced he was retiring from restaurant ownership. It was the end of an era for the city to lose the day-to-day menu from one of the fathers of Southwest cuisine and mentor to so many of the working chefs now at some of DFW’s best restaurants. Now, some of the greatest hits of his menus from Fauna and Flora Street Cafe are back in an unlikely location: a little motel restaurant in Stephenville, a small town southwest of Fort Worth, at the Seeker inside the Interstate Inn.
Eater Dallas caught up with him to find out how the project happened, what’s on the menu, and what he’s learning about Texas…