{"id":314171,"date":"2026-05-29T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/314171\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:22:08","slug":"wava-halal-grill-offers-mediterranean-fare-in-former-crooked-crust-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/314171\/","title":{"rendered":"Wava Halal Grill offers Mediterranean fare in former Crooked Crust location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/wavagrill.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wava Halal Grill<\/a> opened near the corner of Fry Street and Avenue A by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unt.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of North Texas<\/a> in late April, a company representative said.<\/p>\n<p>Wava offers halal and Mediterranean food, like lamb, chicken, beef and falafel gyros, as well as platters with meat, rice and salad, according to the company\u2019s menu.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant also has desserts and soft drinks on the menu.<\/p>\n<p>Wava Halal Grill&#8217;s Denton restaurant is the third location in Dallas-Fort Worth. There are also storefronts in Dallas and Richardson. All of the company\u2019s sauces are made in-house at the Richardson location, the representative said.<\/p>\n<p>Wava Halal Grill is in the space where Crooked Crust was located before the pizza shop closed in <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/denton\/dining\/2026\/03\/03\/denton-pizza-shop-crooked-crust-permanently-closes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wava Halal Grill opened near the corner of Fry Street and Avenue A by the University of North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[113010,102,104,103,113011,80452,113009],"class_list":["post-314171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crooked-crust","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-mediterranean-food-denton","tag-unt","tag-wava-grill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}