Press Coverage
Zagat: 10 Under The Radar Dallas-Fort Worth Chefs
...a pioneer in the industry, from running the first and only no-tipping restaurant in Dallas to not seating young children or allowing TVs as unwanted distractions for his cherished guests...
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Renzell Rates Canary By Gorji #3 Restaurant In Dallas
One of Addison's own rated #3 restaurant in Dallas.
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Canary By Gorji Rated # 3 Restaurant in Dallas By Renzell
#1 In Food — #1 In Hospitality—#3 In Overall Restaurants In Dallas
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Dallas Observer Top 100 Dishes 2017
No. 5: Lamb Tongue Crostini - Canary By Gorji
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Eater’s 13 Essential Addison Restaurants
"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..."
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Paper City – If this is what no-tipping looks like, I want some more
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The CW KDAF-TV Channel 33 – No-Tipping Interview
Canary By Gorji - First Dallas restaurant to go no tipping.
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Eater – Dallas Now Has Its First No-Tipping Restaurant
Canary By Gorji joins a national dining trend
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WFAA Channel 8 – Dallas Restaurant Eliminates Tipping
Gorji said he had been thinking about the concept for more than a year. ...No-tipping by fine dining restaurants in New York and San Francisco over the last several months helped guide him.
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Dallas Morning News: Guide Live – Dallas Restaurant Switches To No-Tipping
Chef Gorji wanted to eliminate tipping from his restaurant Canary by Gorji long before it became a national, buzzy topic.
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Dallas Observer – Dallas’ First No-Tipping Restaurant
"...it’s a perfect fit. Canary has just eight tables, its cuisine is elegantly high-end and it doesn’t practice turn-and-burn seating..."
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Culture Map – 100 Best Restaurants
Canary by Gorji is a small 8-table, Mediterranean-inspired restaurant. Chef Gorji does everything from shopping for ingredients to answering the phone.
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Dallas Observer
Dallas Observer – The Hardest Food Categories to Decide in Best of Dallas
".... Graham Dodds at Wayward Sons and Matthew McCallister at FT33 were names that came up, along with Dallas chefs like Mansour Gorji at Canary by Gorji."
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Dallas Observer – Steak at Canary: #29 Dallas Observer 100 Favorite Dishes
Chef Gorji won back-to-back statewide Texas Steak Cook-Offs a decade ago, and although he has retired from cook-offs, the judges could wander into his restaurant tomorrow and hand him another medal.
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Eater 38 Essential Restaurants in Dallas-Fort Worth
Canary’s “killer cuisine” on Eater’s 38 Essential List
“Addison may be a wasteland of chain restaurants, but Canary By Gorji has been keeping it real in the northerly parts of Dallas for more than a decade. Start off with a plate of delicate baby eggplants stuffed with gorgonzola and topped with pomodoro sauce, then treat yo’ self to Gorji’s epic paella made with rabbit, chorizo, mussels, and shrimp.”
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Dallas Observer
Dallas Observer – Canary’s beef tenderloin “one of best in metroplex”
...the prime beef tenderloin, was recently praised in a Dallas Observer review as "one of the best in the metroplex.” They continued on to say that Chef Gorji is “some kind of a meat genius... 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.”
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ZestFest – Gorji Gourmet Sauces Win Gold, Silver & Bronze Again in Blind Judging
Arrabiata Diavolo won silver for Best New Product 2015, as well as the Golden Chile twice at ZestFest 2015 & 2016. Pomodoro and Puttanesca took home second and third places in the pasta sauce cook-off category in 2015 and 2016.
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