Chef and restaurateur Matt Carter will open Dash, a new all-day restaurant, in Scottsdale this fall.
Chais Renea
The trio of restaurants from chef Matt Carter and restaurateur Brian Raab has delighted diners for more than 20 years. The business partners behind Zinc Bistro, The Mission and Fat Ox took the last 10 years off from adding any new concepts to the mix.
That will change in November when they open Dash, an all-day eatery in Scottsdale’s McCormick Ranch area near Hayden and Mountain View roads.
Carter admits some selfishness at play in Dash’s eclectic menu and location near where he lives.
“It really is kind of a mixed bag of what you would expect from a morning, noon and night type space, but it’s also all these things that I either wanted to cook for myself or I wanted to eat in my neighborhood,” Carter says. “There’s a lot going on, but we’re going to have some fun.”
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Portuguese-style charcoal-roasted chicken will feature on Dash’s evening menu.
What to eat at Dash
The new restaurant will have a casual format for all three meals, plus a dedicated market and curbside pickup for grab-and-go and takeout options. It is “definitely out of our comfort zone,” the chef says.
Yet he and Fat Ox’s pastry chef Lisa Graf dove in headfirst to build a menu that starts with coffee and croissants, moves to sandwiches and Roman-style pizzas and closes with Portuguese-style chargrilled chicken and soft serve.
Other morning bites will include breakfast bowls, sandwiches and pastries, paired with fresh-squeezed orange juice, matcha, pour-overs and other coffee drinks made with house syrups infused with local, seasonal ingredients such as fig leaves or dates.
Dash pastry chef Lisa Graf crafts pastries for the morning service.
Rolling into lunch is where Carter, whose Dash business card titles him the “Captain Sandwich,” leans in. He’s crafted an elevated take on a BLT featuring Nueske’s bacon, a salt-cured tomato, a thick slab of iceberg and a zhuzhed-up mayo that’s designed to pull all the flavors of the sandwich together. Duke’s Mayo gets mixed with bacon scraps, buttered and toasted bread and tomato powder. That stack will join other deli-style chopped sandwiches, a folded chicken Caesar flatbread, salads and rice bowls.
Diners can also opt for pies or soft-serve at lunch or save the sweets for dinner. The chefs’ signature twisted frozen treat uses a dried Hokkaido milk base, drawing on Carter’s favorite soft-serve style from Japan and Korea. The milk powder adds “a depth of flavor that’s super special,” the chef says. Those who don’t eat dairy won’t be left out, either. The soft serve machine will also spin a vegan version made from fava beans.
Dash’s kitchen also boasts a custom grill for spatchcocked chickens and charcoal-roasted potatoes. This homey dinner can be savored in the restaurant’s intimate 12-seat dining room or on the more spacious 40-seat patio. The space features marble counters flecked with blue and an eye-catching pastry case with a steampunk-esque shelf made from copper and glass.
Broken Plate Hospitality partners, chef Matt Carter (left) and Brian Raab (right) will team up with pastry chef Lisa Graf on Dash.
To offer a solution whether diners want to go out or stay in, Dash will offer online ordering and a marketplace stocked with eats from the restaurant’s menu plus popular items from Carter and Raab’s other spots, including Zinc’s mac-and-cheese, Fat Ox’s polenta and The Mission’s chips and guacamole.
The bar will serve beer and wine to start, and will expand its offerings in the future to include batched cocktails, Carter says. The restaurant will also craft its own sodas, including a mushroom-infused cola, root beer and a bubbly ginger-and-grapefruit sipper.
Carter and Raab envision Dash as the kind of local joint where people bring their kids, and those kids come back as adults.
“This is our most approachable concept to date,” Raab said in a press release. “I can do tequila shots with you at The Mission and pour Negronis at Fat Ox, but Dash is the ultimate neighborhood hang to grab a morning coffee, catch up over lunch or share a bottle of wine at sunset and then take one home with you.”
Dash
Opens in November
9619 N. Hayden Road, #101, Scottsdale
