{"id":462129,"date":"2026-10-10T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462129\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:52:12","slug":"zalat-pizza-to-open-new-restaurant-in-duncanville-a-dallas-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462129\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalat Pizza to open new restaurant in Duncanville, a Dallas suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The restaurant will be at 325 S. Cedar Ridge Drive and will offer the chain\u2019s full menu, known for its pizzas featuring creative combinations of ingredients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Founded in Dallas by Khanh Nguyen, Zalat Pizza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/2016\/03\/04\/how-pizza-place-zalat-might-dominate-late-night-delivery-in-dallas-and-plano\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">has grown<\/a> from its first location to 22 restaurants in D-FW, two in Austin and six in Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen first opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/cooking\/2018\/10\/02\/owner-of-dallas-vietnamese-restaurant-shares-his-secret-to-easy-beef-pho-at-home\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">DaLat Vietnamese<\/a> in 2012 at 2537 N. Fitzhugh Ave. in Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When a space next to his restaurant became available, Nguyen decided to open a pizzeria that would stay open late for people who work late, such as restaurant and service industry employees. That was the first Zalat Pizza, and it opened in 2015. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Duncanville restaurant will be the chain\u2019s 30th location.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe obsess over the pizza because if the pizza isn\u2019t great, none of the rest matters,\u201d said Nguyen, CEO of\u00a0Zalat Pizza, in a statement. \u201cGreat ingredients, people who care, and the freedom to be a little weird. That\u2019s Zalat. As we grow, we\u2019re not going to lose that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company also introduced a refreshed visual identity, including a new logo, an updated website and the tagline \u201cWorth It.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Worth It\u2019 names the promise behind the ingredients, the recipes, and the signature on the box,\u201d the company said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zalat is known for its specialty pizza menu, including pies such as the Pho Shizzle, with chicken, red bell peppers, red onions, Hoisin and Sriracha swirls, fresh basil and cilantro; the Pineapple Express, with bacon, pineapple, crushed red pepper, jalape\u00f1os, teriyaki and cilantro; and the Drunken Masterclass, with salami, Italian sausage, pepperoni, red onions, jalape\u00f1os and black pepper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zalat Pizza will open on Oct. 12, 2026, at 325 S. Cedar Ridge Drive, Duncanville.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zalatpizza.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">zalatpizza.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The restaurant will be at 325 S. Cedar Ridge Drive and will offer the chain\u2019s full menu, known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,87998,124723,106146,89276,89307],"class_list":["post-462129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-fort-worth-chain-restaurants","tag-tp-duncanville","tag-tp-restaurant-openings","tag-tp-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462129","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=462129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}