A championship prime rib sandwich just found a permanent home in Dallas
Sam and Gabby Lopez drove their food trailer to Graham in 2024 with $28 in the bank — by the next morning an automatic payment had them at negative $361 — and they cooked anyway. Their Shaved Prime Rib Sandwich won Grand Champion at the Food Truck Championship of Texas and a $10,000 check. Now that sandwich has a permanent address: Insurgent opens Saturday, November 21 as a walk-up counter inside The Market building at the Dallas Farmers Market, 920 S. Harwood St., Suite 174, open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. The prime rib still comes with buttermilk dressing, red wine-braised cabbage and onions, and jus, and the menu adds a Koji Fried Chicken Sandwich, a flank steak sandwich with tamari-pickled shallots, a Lechon Bowl with crispy pork belly over garlic fried rice, and a vegan Market Special that changes with what's local. Gabby runs pastry — her Turon Tart layers jackfruit compote, roasted plantain flan and banana leaf mousse under a brûléed spring roll wrapper. Both chefs trained at the Culinary Institute of America, Sam at The French Laundry and Gabby at Bouchon Bakery, before leaving corporate jobs in Chicago in 2022 to start the trailer in Denton. A soft opening for media and Farmers Market tenants runs November 16–20, and this winter they'll run the CounterCulture Dinner Series — eight guests, at least four courses, optional natural wine pairing, reservations required.
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