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A pizzeria with a dedicated following has debuted in Melissa: Yonx Pizza Bar & Co<\/a>., an indie spot that does New York-style pizzas as well as pizza by the slice, has opened a location at 1521 McKinney St. #700 \u2014 an address that had pizza history as it was home for nearly a decade to a Palio’s Pizza, which closed in 2025.<\/p>\n

Yonx is from Robert Hede, a restaurant veteran who was previously involved with the Village Burger Bar chain, where he was a partner. He switched from burgers to pizza in 2022 when he connected with NY Pizza and Pints, a small local pizzeria chain, opening a location in Wylie at 1125 FM 544 #800. After two years, he broke off from the chain to found Yonx at the same address.<\/p>\n

Yonx does the kind of New York-style thin-crust pizza that Dallas-Fort Worth loves, in a standard 14-inch, as well as a massive 24-inch “Kong” size. They also do slices, which can be ordered as a lunch with a Caesar salad for $9.99.<\/p>\n

Varieties include familiar favorites like pepperoni, as well as slightly gourmet options with New York-inspired names such as:<\/p>\n

Balsamic on Bleeker St., with garlic sauce, mushrooms, shaved ribeye, mozzarella cheese, arugula, and balsamic drizzleBronx Bomb, with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, meatballs, mushrooms, and ricotta cheeseBrooklyn, basically a meat-lovers with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, sliced ham, chopped meatball, beef, & pepperoniGreenwich Garden, a vegetarian with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, red & green bell peppers, white onions, mushrooms, spinach, & black olives<\/p>\n

Prices range from $16 for a 14-inch cheese pizza to $46 for a NY Giant Supreme Soho with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, pepperoni, sausage, beef, red & green bell peppers, white onions, sliced mushrooms, & black olives.<\/p>\n

\"Yonx Yonx Pizza soup in a bread bowl.Photo courtesy of Yonx <\/p>\n

There are also sandwiches on house-made toasted focaccia such as the Italian tower with melted provolone cheese, sliced ham, salami, lettuce, red onion, pepperoncinis, & sundried tomato aioli.<\/p>\n

Appetizers include comforting soups served in a bread bowl including tomato basil and jalapeno cream soup with charred jalapenos. Plus wings, garlic knots, and “Brooklyn Ballers” \u2014 their signature meatballs in marinara, made in-house. topped with whipped ricotta and Parmesan, served with pesto and focaccia ends.<\/p>\n

A full bar features frozen margaritas and frozen mojitos made with agave gold tequila. The best day to order those is “Frozen Fridays” from 11 am-10:30 pm when the blueberry mojitos are $6 and the margaritas are $5.<\/p>\n

The Melissa location opened in January, with the same menu as the Wylie original, and has been met with an unprecedented wave of positive reviews on Facebook: one comment after another raving over how great the pizza is, and what a godsend it is \u2014 positive reviews that began to stack up even before the place had officially opened, the likes of which have been rarely seen.<\/p>\n

This location boasts almost double the size of the original in Wylie, with a covered patio where they’ll host live music on the weekends outside. <\/p>\n

Hede, who has been hands-on at the Melissa location since it opened, says he’s all-in on these northernmost suburbs of Dallas.<\/p>\n

“I like this area \u2014 I feel like all the growth is heading out in this direction, there’s just a lot of activity up here,” he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pizzeria with a dedicated following has debuted in Melissa: Yonx Pizza Bar & Co., an indie spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1214,63460,18776,63459,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-152095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-deep-ellum","13":"tag-dumplings","14":"tag-keith-lee","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}