Though weekend brunch likely won’t launch until the fall, Fasthoff says the restaurant already offers plenty of reasons to imbibe. Chef Ben McPherson, owner of wholesale pasta company BOH Pasta, has developed a menu of sharable dishes inspired by Texas cuisine, including pollo asado skewers, crawfish beignets, and tenderloin tips plus larger entrees, like Big Casino’s summer corn and crab ravioli and a Room Service smash burger. Owner Brian Fasthoff, who also owned Batanga, says some of the tapas theme remains at the new restaurant. Jim Veal Crawfish beignets are a perfect snack to share. The spotlight may not fade much if Cuban has a role in trying to push casino gambling through the Texas Legislature in the coming years.Big Casino Kitchen & Bar serves dishes inspired by Texas, including a crab and corn ravioli. The NBA has fined Cuban millions through the years, often for his criticism of officiating but more recently for comments about tanking for draft picks.ĭallas was one of the worst franchises in pro sports in the 1990s but turned into one of the best under Cuban, with a lot of help from star forward Dirk Nowitzki - now a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame and the leader of the team that won the 2011 NBA championship.Ī self-professed basketball junkie who graduated from Indiana University, Cuban is almost always courtside for Mavericks games. He never hesitated to speak his mind, for many years meeting with reporters while he worked on an exercise machine before most home games.

While the 65-year-old likely will continue to make basketball decisions, the sale comes as he is stepping away from the popular business TV reality show “Shark Tank” after a 16th season next year.Ĭuban was a highly visible owner almost from the day he bought the team in 2000. It remains to be seen how the sale will affect Cuban’s place in the spotlight. News of the sale of the Mavs broke last month, hours after Las Vegas Sands announced that Adelson was selling $2 billion of her shares to buy an unspecified professional sports team. Texas already has a billionaire NBA owner who is a casino operator, Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta, who also supports bringing casinos to his home state but has watched lawmakers sink the idea year after year. But the spending blitz failed to deliver a breakthrough this year in the Texas Legislature, where resistance to legalizing casinos runs deep.

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