Duff Goldman of "Ace of Cakes" fame is doing a TV show where he travels around highlighting America's best and most unique desserts. (Yes, it sounds and looks a lot like "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives" without the hair dye.) The new show, "Sugar High," premieres Monday, August 8 at 9:30 p.m. on Food Network.
One of the inaugural episodes features Fort Worth's Paris Coffee Shop. The highlights appear to include coconut cream pie piled with a mountain of meringue, dessert crepes and Swirly Sandwiches (some kind of whoopie pie-like dessert?).
Strangely, the episode is being hyped as featuring Dallas. (Courtesy of Food Network, the slideshow captions mention Dallas.) Using Dallas as a broad label is understandable when mentioning small, neighboring cities or referring to a general area. It usually is not a big deal considering the meandering boundary lines, but Fort Worth is a huge city worthy of numerous episodes of "Cops." To see a travel show refer to it as Dallas is perplexing. Throwing an extra city name--Paris, Dallas, Fort Worth--into the mix is confusing as well.
Acclaimed by various media outlets--including Bon Appetit magazine--and family-owned since the 1920s, the restaurant has a strong flow of customers. "Sugar High" will likely drive a new stream of sweet fiends to the restaurant. If you are planning a maiden voyage, consider going before Duff shows everyone else in the Metroplex why they should stop by Paris Coffee Shop.
Here is restaurant owner Mike Smith preparing a custard pie for a 2010 episode of "Good Morning Texas."
Paris Coffee Shop
704 West Magnolia Street
Fort Worth, Texas
Phone: (817) 335-2041
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