Canary By Gorji – A No-Tipping Restaurant
Gorji's New Mediterranean Cuisine, some of the best steaks, in Dallas and creative seafood focuses on keeping the essence of a dish with less emphasis on tradition and more on flavor. He breaks with tradition with his innovative restaurant philosophies also. The 8-table fine dining restaurant, doesn't have TVs, doesn't turn tables, doesn't seat young children. It is also Dallas' only no-tipping restaurant.
Gorji Gourmet Winning Sauce Line
He is the creator of Gorji Gourmet Foods, a line of sauces for home cooks that taste like you have spent hours preparing, but you only need to heat and use. The sauces include:
• Pomodoro Sauce
• Puttanesca Sauce
• Arrabiata Diavolo Sauce
• Dipping Oil & Marinade Primer
• Pomegranate Vinaigrette
Zing! Cookbook
The unique cuisine that he serves nightly in his Dallas restaurant is detailed in Zing! By Gorji, his Cookbook. Often going against the grain of traditional culinary practice, his creative take on cooking philosophies mixes science and old world hot and cold theories to create his unique recipes.
Critics Say...
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"For more than a decade, Canary by Gorji has reliably been Addison’s best restaurant.
Inventive Mediterranean fare, like lamb tongue crostini and gorgonzola-stuffed eggplant, is served alongside Prime steaks and equally solid fish dishes."
Renzell "We know chef Gorji has a first name but we think he's earned the right not to use it. You know, like Madonna. There may be no harder working chef in Dallas. Gorji’s eclectic cooking truly defies categorization for unique meal combinations, like Colorado Lamb T-Bone and Texas Wild Boar sharing plates with campari tomato, tzatziki, and tabbouleh. It all adds up to a Dallas institution that keeps pace with the young guns."
Dallas Observer: We sampled Gorji’s mussels, scallops, duck, beef, boar, lamb and quail, and every single one was cooked flawlessly, with total understanding of each cut’s identity."
Food Lovers Guide To Dallas/Fort Worth says "Intimate dining at his 7-table retreat means a relaxed evening of inspired food. Chef-owner Gorji has won legions of devout fans who are utterly bewitched by his food and honest, warm smile."
Chef Gorji
Gorji, an engineer-turned-chef has lived on three continents, and has just celebrated 30 years calling Texas home, fourteen of those as chef-owner of Canary By Gorji. In the evenings Tuesday through Saturday, the back-to-back Texas Steak Champion can be found in his kitchen cooking for his guests at Canary By Gorji.
Early each day, Gorji heads out, stopping at farmers markets and local specialty stores selecting ingredients for that evening’s menu.
His gregarious nature and front-of-the house bonhomie are well-known. The Renzell restaurant rating system rates Canary By Gorji number one in hospitality among Dallas restaurants.
His sauce line Gorji Gourmet has won first place awards in their divisions and his cookbook Zing! has won domestic and international independent publisher competitions.
