{"id":343349,"date":"2026-06-19T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343349\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:07:08","slug":"austins-hestia-visits-french-friends-in-dallas-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343349\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin’s Hestia visits French friends in Dallas for dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acclaimed Austin restaurant Hestia is bringing its live fire cooking to a collaborative dinner at Dallas’ esteemed French restaurant Mamani this August. The one-night-only event comes on the heels of another collaboration between the two Michelin-starred restaurants, part of Hestia’s annual Lone Star Dinner Series.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The “Mamani and Friends: Mamani x Hestia Dinner” will take place Tuesday, August 4, at Mamani in Uptown Dallas. The menu for the eight-course event is still under wraps, but since Hestia is known for live-fire cooking and Mamani is parking a grill outside for the occasion, it’s safe to say the sears and smokes will be the spotlight.<\/p>\n

Mamani wine director Josh Ponthieux will create optional wine pairings for the experience. Three of Hestia’s top chefs \u2014 Kevin Fink, Paul Wensel, and Tavel Bristol-Joseph \u2014 will be in attendance, alongside Mamani’s executive chef and partner Christophe De Lellis, a press release details. Both Fink<\/a> and Bristol-Joseph<\/a> have been James Beard Award finalists (in 2020 and 2026, respectively), establishing the chefs as culinary icons in their own right.<\/p>\n

“I thought it was cool to bring to Mamani another Texas Michelin restaurant with a very different approach than ours,” De Lellis said in a statement. “We couldn\u2019t be more excited to welcome Hestia\u2019s team and do something really special for our community here in Dallas.”<\/p>\n

\"Mamani Mamani opened in Dallas in 2025 under chef Christophe De Lellis, whose menu blends influences from Paris and the French and Italian Rivieras.Courtesy of Mamani<\/p>\n

Dallas’ Mamani earned a Michelin star<\/a> just two months after opening in 2025 and recently won Restaurant of the Year<\/a> at the 2026 CultureMap Dallas Tastemaker Awards. Austin’s Hestia was awarded<\/a> its star in 2024.<\/p>\n

De Lellis will travel to Austin to cook with Fink for Hestia’s Lone Star Dinner Series two weeks before the Dallas dinner takes place. The Austin series began its current season<\/a> on June 16 with Tatem\u00f3, a Houston restaurant that builds the majority of its menu on masa. The Mamani dinner will be held July 21 and will be followed by a dinner with Austin’s Michelin-rated InterStellar BBQ on August 25. <\/p>\n

CultureMap was in attendance for the 12-course kickoff June 16, where chefs from both restaurants worked together in the kitchen \u2014 one team in black and the other in white \u2014 to deliver a diverse menu with a light seafood focus and Texas touches. <\/p>\n

Hestia’s dishes included a farmed oyster with refreshing, summery garnishes; a tiny kampachi roll; Texas Wagyu tartare with Thai basil and a fragrant jalape\u00f1o flatbread; and an Italian-inspired, dry-aged Berkshire pork coppa with kosho (fermented citrus and chili paste), radicchio, and marinated Sungold tomatoes. Each restaurant contributed one dessert, with Hestia’s elegant corn pavlova serving as a well-balanced finale to the meal.<\/p>\n

The Mamani x Hestia dinner will be held on Tuesday, August 4. Only 100 tickets ($235 per person) will be sold for the event, plus optional wine pairings ($135). Reservations open Tuesday, June 23, via OpenTable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Brianna Caleri contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Acclaimed Austin restaurant Hestia is bringing its live fire cooking to a collaborative dinner at Dallas’ esteemed French…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,102,5467,119032,18385,5458,354],"class_list":["post-343349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dallas","tag-dinner","tag-hestia","tag-mamani","tag-michelin-guide","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343349","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=343349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}