Woodfire Kirby's

The history of Woodfire Kirby's, the Lower Greenville Avenue restaurant that until last October was called Kirby's Prime Steakhouse, goes back a long time – all the way to 1921. That's the year that J.G. Kirby and Dr. R.W. Jackson opened the Pig Stand on the Dallas-Fort Worth Highway. It was a drive-in restaurant (said to be the country's first), serving sandwiches of uncured ham doused in a special sour sauce...
At a time when self-reinvention has become the formula for survival, how reassuring that a place with so much history has done a good job remaking itself. Kirby's gives dishes all over the menu the wood-smoke treatment, and that's a big part of what makes it so appealing.
(Read more in Leslie Brenner's full review below, linked below on this page)
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DallasNews.com update, 10/28/09: Kirby's Prime Steakhouse, a fixture on Lower Greenville since the early '50s, has reinvented itself as WoodFire Kirby's. The new menu pushes past steak to include wood-fired pizza, hickory-smoked meats and wood-grilled fish.