DINING FEATURE
BY MIRANDA JAIMES
The J.Theodore Board ($25) is made up of bagels, cheese, olives and fruit with various dipping sauces.
Sesame seared ahi tuna ($19) is one of the more well known items from the cold bar.
Sheree and Derek Simms are the owners of J.Theodore in Frisco. (Photos by Miranda Jaimes/Community Impact Newspaper)
The French dip sandwich ($22) is one of the more popular items at J.Theodore.
The Rare Books Bar serves whiskey.
RARE BOOKS BAR
J.Theodore Restaurant & Bar Frisco eatery specializes in ‘immersive dining’ I t’s all about the atmosphere at J.Theodore Restaurant & Bar. Walking into the restaurant, and when they took over the space that is now J.Theodore in 2019, they brought those same concepts.
J.Theodore is host to a secret speakeasy called Rare Books Bar that specializes in whiskey. The bar requires a password to get in, and it is posted on the speakeasy’s social media accounts each week. A telephone booth allows guests to say the password to get into the speakeasy.
restaurant concepts coming to The Star in Frisco and will feature the couple’s children. The restaurant o ers a variety of dining times, serving brunch, lunch, dinner and after-hours on Fridays and Saturdays. Each menu helps to attract diverse crowds, the Simmses said. People can come by for a quick bite after a soccer game, to have a celebratory dinner experience for a birthday or if they want to bring friends in town for a brunch experience. “We like to say we do immersive dining, so we create an experience and a feel and then obviously follow with great food, great cocktails and great service,” Sheree said. “That’s our identity.”
guests are greeted by brightly colored murals, brass light xtures and arches over the bar, below which stand dozens of glass bottles of alcoholic elixirs. The decoration is as intentional as the food, said Derek Simms, who owns J. Theodore with his wife, Sheree. “That’s what my wife and I are really, really good at, is providing the di erent layers of entertainment as well as food,” Derek said. The Simmses have previous restaurant experience as the former owners of Eight11 Place in Frisco. There they had a stage and music,
“All of our restaurants are highly entertaining and are really destina- tion experiences that are more than just eating,” Derek said. A key focal point at J.Theodore is a mural near the dessert counter that portrays Derek’s father, John Theodore Simms, the namesake of the restaurant. While the eatery emphasizes entertainment, at its heart, it is a family a air, Sheree said. “In all of our concepts we try to somehow put our identity into it,” Sheree said, noting the mural of J.Theodore. Upcoming murals will be painted at the Simms’ new
J.Theodore Restaurant & Bar 6959 Lebanon Road, Ste. 110, Frisco 214-705-7775 www.jtheodore.com Hours: Mon.-Tue. 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Wed. 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Thu. 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Fri. 11 a.m.-midnight, Sat. 10 a.m.-midnight, Sun. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
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