The Best Dishes Eater Dallas Ate in May 2024 | Eater Dallas

"I found the pizza at Cenzo's top-notch, but I went to try the sandwiches and was lucky: owner Chad Dolezal told me it was Thursday — the only day the place serves its chicken parmesan sandwich — and he insisted I had to try it. He wasn’t fooling around, and neither was the kitchen when they made this crispy chicken sandwich, full of cheese and tomato sauce (both of which I managed to drip all over myself); it’s well worth making a Thursday appointment to get one. An authentic Oak Cliff neighborhood joint that opened last year, Chef Chad Dolezal hung up his fine-dining whites and moved from Austin to Dallas to make his career his own, and he’s quickly captured the minds and hearts of Dallas’s most avid pizza and deli sandwich lovers with his saucy chicken Parmesan sandwich (available on Thursdays), New York-style pies, and hardcore Gen X dad–style Instagram posts. The playlist is strictly tunes from 1976 to 1996 (peep the records hanging on one wall), and don’t be fooled into thinking Cenzo is a real person, even if there are fake photos of him on the walls." - Courtney E. Smith