It's a love letter to a diner cheeseburger. Wrecking crews started dismantling the Love Field Inn on Mockingbird Lane today, readying the land for a new restaurant that will sport some badassery from Jack Perkins. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Running Slow Bone will be Eric Hansen, who hails from Kansas City and previously worked at Cane Rosso. We named it in our list of 15 essential burger joints in Dallas-Fort Worth. One could earn more money in that. Make a financial contribution or sign up for a newsletter, and help us keep telling Dallas's stories with no paywalls. Wrecking crews started dismantling the Love Field Inn on Mockingbird Lane today, readying the land for a new restaurant that will sport some badassery from Jack Perkins. The plans call for Mockingbird Diner to have roughly 200 seats, including patio seating, with design elements borrowed from southern churches. Photo by Nicholas McWhirter Eric Hansen, who won for his pulled pork at Meat Fight, will run Slow Bone with Perkins. He envisions transforming the hotel’s ornate dining room into a setting for coursed tasting menus. Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox. I was a waiter and a bartender [in my life]. "If you know how to run a restaurant, it doesn't matter what you do. “Because it’s in a great little area.” And if it doesn’t work out, he’ll live in it himself. The one thing you wont see on the menu: BBQ. No taking of orders. The half-pound burger with lettuce, bacon, cheese and jalapenos tantalized Guy's taste buds. I’m confused and I’m disappointed. You can never get anyone adopting the culture,” he laments. Once you take a bite, those meat juices flow like the birds-eye view of a landscape cut with streams. I dream of Mockingbird Diner’s Enchiladas and Egg dish!! Circulation, Chef Jeana Johnson, of Good 2 Go Taco fame, and Perkins use cheddar cheese as a flare gun to know when the temperature is right. The restaurant will go in the old BW’s BBQ space, but the more relevant information is that it's a couple of doors down from Nick Badovinus' Off Site Kitchen, around the corner from Peticolas Brewery and a stone's throw from the Design District — the new center of Where It's At. “And part of it is that there is no panache that comes from waiting at a breakfast and lunch place,” he theorizes. The ceilings are sky-high and vaulted. Smoked in Texas: Smoke-Brined Fried Chicken. "We could open a Vietnamese noodle house — or whatever," he says. She put the menu on a rotation, and so will we. The diner is  close enough to Love Field to grab a layover bite or just watch the planes come and go. Looking out the front windows, Southwest’s ocean-blue plane whisks downward, ready to land. The initial connection between CloudFlare's network and the origin web server timed out. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. newsletter, reports on the closure with an interview from Mockingbird Diner owner Jack Perkins, Was it the staff? Jack Perkins, co-owner of Maple & Motor, holds out two fists.