Domodomo Kō, the Dallas restaurant we said had the most interesting tasting menu in North Texas right now, is changing to allow some of its dishes a la carte.
That’s great news for diners who want to go back for specific bites of the restaurant’s Korean-Japanese food, like the complex hirame mulhoe, a cold raw fish soup that offers a rainbow of textures, colors and sensations.
The restaurant will remain dinner-only, and it will also continue to serve seven courses called Domokase, a play on the Japanese word omakase. It’s now closed Wednesdays only; it was previously closed Sundays and Mondays.
The spring 2025 menu, presented when the restaurant opened, has been changed slightly by Brian Kim, executive chef and co-owner. It is expected to change in a larger way every quarter.
Kim is one of the few North Texas chefs who is willing to say out loud: “I want to achieve a Michelin star,” as he did in a news release this week.
Michelin inspectors announced in 2024 that they’d release at least three Michelin Guides for Texas restaurants in 2024, 2025 and 2026. It’s Michelin’s first foray into Texas, and the news sent chefs scrambling to produce their best work, unsure when Michelin’s anonymous critics would enter their restaurants, if they did at all.
Domodomo Kō was not open in Dallas in 2024 and was not eligible for the first Michelin Guide Texas. Just one Dallas-Fort Worth restaurant won a Michelin star that year, leaving plenty of opportunity in 2025.
The 2025 Guide is expected to be released in the fall, and Domodomo’s owners hope to find themselves in it.
Brothers Brian and Chris Kim were born in Korea and moved to Denton as teenagers. Chef Brian Kim opened Domodomo, a handroll shop, in New York City. It received Michelin’s Bib Gourmand awards, the honor given for affordable food, from 2017 to 2023. The Kim brothers say Domodomo Kō in Dallas is not an expansion of the NYC concept but rather a more upscale evolution of their Korean-Japanese point of view.
They consider Dallas home now.
“I want to achieve a star in the place I’m from,” Brian Kim said.
For now: Go try a bowl of the hirame mulhoe for a taste of Domodomo.
Domodomo Kō is at 2681 Howell St. (in The Quad), Dallas. Dinner only. The restaurant is now closed Wednesdays. A la carte begins June 1, 2025; single dishes will be sold Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays only. Domokase, the tasting menu, costs $135 per person and will be available all six days the restaurant is open.