{"id":480270,"date":"2026-10-29T10:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480270\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:54:24","slug":"miya-chinese-restaurant-from-dallas-coming-to-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480270\/","title":{"rendered":"MiYa Chinese restaurant from Dallas coming to Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WORTH<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/miyachinese.com\/food-menu\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MiYa Chinese<\/a>, a \u201cBest in Dallas\u201d winner for its generous helpings of updated Chinese favorites, will replace a home-cooking restaurant in the Waterside shopping center.<\/p>\n<p>MiYa, from a descendant of famed Texas restaurateur Phil Romano, will replace The Rim at 5912 Convair Drive, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/restaurant-news\/article\/miya-dallas-chinese-expand-frisco-fort-worth-22497494.php\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Dallas Mornng News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MiYa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/restaurant-news\/2024\/12\/06\/miya-chinese-open-east-dallas\/\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened two years ago<\/a> in the Casa Linda shopping center near White Rock Lake in Dallas. It quickly drew attention for its fun atmosphre, affordable specials and happy-hour deals on food, margaritas and more cocktails.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite dishes by commenters on social media include the combo hand-pulled noodles, pork dumplings in spicy vinegar and regular Chinese favorites such as orange chicken or sesame chicken.<\/p>\n<p>The Waterside location features a sprawling bar and patio on a grove of trees. It was originally home to a Taco Diner.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TDtaq.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" title=\"TDtaq\" alt=\"The grove of trees that originally stood in the Waterside shopping center behind the space that will now become MiYa Chinese, as seen Aug. 3, 2016.\"\/>                                                                                    The grove of trees that originally stood in the Waterside shopping center behind the space that will now become MiYa Chinese, as seen Aug. 3, 2016.                                                                                            Bud Kennedy                                                                            bud@star-telegram.com                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p>David Romano co-founded MiYa with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jia_dallas\/\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jia Huang<\/a>, a Dallas restaurant veteran from the southeast China port city or Xiamen.<\/p>\n<p>David Romano is a nephew of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/articles\/food-phil-romano\/\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Romano<\/a>, founder of the local Eatzi\u2019s food markets and the original Romano\u2019s Macaroni Grill restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas restaurant is at 9540 Garland Road, where it replaced a location of the Pei Wei chain.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/222388920\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793271264_20_BudKennedy-Profile.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Bud Kennedy\u2019s Eats Beat\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/222388920\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bud Kennedy\u2019s Eats Beat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Bud Kennedy is celebrating his 40th year writing about restaurants in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He has written the \u201cEats Beat\u201d dining column in print since 1985 and online since 1992 \u2014 that\u2019s more than 3,000 columns about Texas cafes, barbecue, burgers and where to eat.<br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/star-telegram.com\/subscribe\" style=\"color: #5169B8; text-transform: none;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support my work with a digital subscription<\/a><br \/>\n    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH MiYa Chinese, a \u201cBest in Dallas\u201d winner for its generous helpings of updated Chinese favorites, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-480270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480270","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=480270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}