{"id":66482,"date":"2025-11-26T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66482\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:13:08","slug":"dallas-celeb-chef-tiffany-derry-opens-new-roots-chicken-shak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66482\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas celeb chef Tiffany Derry opens new Roots Chicken Shak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrity fried chicken has winged into Addison: Roots Chicken Shak<\/a>, the fried chicken restaurant concept from chef Tiffany Derry, just opened a location at 3748 Belt Line Rd. #118, in a former Einstein’s Bagels on the southeast corner of Marsh Lane.<\/p>\n

Derry is a native of Beaumont who rose to fame and fortune after appearing on Season 7 of Bravo\u2019s Top Chef, and has since gone on to become a Food Network staple.<\/p>\n

She and her partner Tom Foley opened the first<\/a> Roots Chicken Shack under their T2D Concepts company at Plano’s Legacy Food Hall in 2017, with a menu inspired<\/a> by her Southern upbringing, starring duck-fat fried chicken. They opened a second location in Austin inside an H-E-B store, in 2020.<\/p>\n

Duck-fat fried chicken has been Derry’s signature dish dating<\/a> back to Private Social, the Uptown Dallas restaurant where served as chef in 2013.<\/p>\n

At Roots, the chicken is served<\/a> in many forms: wings, tenders, nuggets, and more. There are chicken sandwiches on sweet potato buns; and two salads \u2014 a Cobb with chicken nuggets, and a Caesar salad with kale, mustard greens, and Romaine, which is not really a Caesar, but OK.<\/p>\n

The Plano location also serves dishes such as fried catfish, duck fat fries, and a baked potato casserole.<\/p>\n

According to a reel posted by Derry, the new Addison location is larger, featuring an actual dining room with wooden chairs and tables, seating about 24. The service style is fast-casual; you place your order at the counter and pick up when it’s ready.<\/p>\n

The location also has an expanded menu with Southern-style sides like collard greens, mac & cheese, biscuits, and banana pudding for dessert.<\/p>\n

“I’m so excited because this location has more sides, more choices, more everything,” Derry says<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Addison location is is owned by franchisees Corey and Marian Epperson, and is part of T2D Concepts’ franchise model designed to scale the Roots Chicken Shak concept. A fourth location is penciled<\/a> in for DeSoto, part of an economic incentive package from the DeSoto Development Corporation. T2D Concepts also operates Roots Southern Table, Radici, and the annual \u2018Shef F+W Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrity fried chicken has winged into Addison: Roots Chicken Shak, the fried chicken restaurant concept from chef Tiffany…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6980,2808,423,160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-66482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-chefs","10":"tag-openings","11":"tag-plano","12":"tag-plano-headlines","13":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66482","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=66482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}