{"id":76553,"date":"2025-12-05T00:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/76553\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:11:08","slug":"san-antonio-chef-jason-dady-opening-new-restaurant-at-pearl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/76553\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio chef Jason Dady opening new restaurant at Pearl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Beard award-nominated chef Jason Dady is opening a new restaurant at Pearl.<\/p>\n<p>Umai Mi will open at Pearl\u2019s Bottling Department Food Hall on Dec. 10. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUmai Mi is Chef Jason Dady\u2019s playful take on modern Asian fare \u2014 bold flavors, bright textures &amp; craveable bowls built for everyday eating,\u201d read a description on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasondady.com\/umaimi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dady\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dishes on the menu will be drawn from various locations across Asia, according to the website, and the menu will include sweet drinks like boba teas. A photo on Dady\u2019s website shows a b\u00e1nh m\u00ec, a Vietnamese sandwich.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/jason-dady-talks-food-network-james-beard-and-new-concepts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dady has established restaurants<\/a> across San Antonio, most recently Roca &amp; Martillo and Ice Ice Dady at the Rock at La Cantera. He previously tried the Umai Mi concept at another location at the Alley on Bitters on San Antonio\u2019s Northside.<\/p>\n<p>Dady\u2019s other restaurants have included Italian and barbecue options. He was featured on The Food Network\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/shows\/bbq-brawl-flay-v-symon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cBBQ Brawl\u201d<\/a> television show.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/author\/jasper-sundeen\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-jasper-4-scaled-1-80x80.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJasper Kenzo Sundeen covers business for the San Antonio Report. Previously, he covered local governments, labor and economics for the Yakima Herald-Republic in Central Washington. He was born and raised&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/author\/jasper-sundeen\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jasper Kenzo Sundeen\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Beard award-nominated chef Jason Dady is opening a new restaurant at Pearl. Umai Mi will open at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37662,37663,37664,742,37665,82,84,83,92,3028,37666,3219],"class_list":["post-76553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-asian-restaurant-pearl","tag-bottling-department-food-hall","tag-new-restaurant-pearl","tag-pearl","tag-pearl-restaurant","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-top-story","tag-typedaily","tag-umai-mi","tag-wc-less-than-500"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76553","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=76553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}