“These oxtails are fire like they been for years,”
said Rich Tompkins, a Dallas resident eating in Elaine’s Kitchen Monday night.
On October 18th, that place that most we know and love, Elaine’s Kitchen will be no more, as their doors close for business. Elaine’s on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, just blocks from Fair Park has been a destination of Jamaican food, and culture since Elaine Patricia Campbell started the restaurant in 1987 at different address, yet still serving South Dallas. The current location is known far and wide from South Dallas to Fort Worth is locales famed for its food, Ms. Elaine; as so many lovingly revered her, passed in 2023.
“What a tremendous loss, every time I visit Dallas, it’s one of the spots, I have to visit. Authentic Jamaican cuisine. My trip to Dallas will never be the same.” B-gyrl, hip-hop historian, an owner of Planet Hip-Hop on Roku tv, said.
We prepare for the end of an era.
