This is Alex Ham’s first restaurant in Texas, but it’s not his first rodeo.
The entrepreneur opened a pizza place in Seoul, South Korea, in 2016 because he saw a hole in the market in the hip Gangnam neighborhood were he lived. After three years running that restaurant, he longed to return to Dallas, where he had lived since attending college here in the ’90s.
A commercial photographer by trade, he currently works full-time as a freelance commercial photographer in Dallas and has plans to open a pizza restaurant at TyPo.
Ham plans to use some of the same recipes from his Seoul restaurant in his new concept, Neony Pizza Works.
He describes it as “semi artisan-NY style pizza,” with a light and airy dough. He also plans to introduce a few items with an Asian twist. Â
He thinks he could open the restaurant as soon as June.
The 90-year-old shopping strip has other food-and-beverage places — Encanto Pops, Joy Macarons and Tiny Victories bar — but this is the first full restaurant to come to the TyPo building on West Davis at Tyler.
Expected at Typo later this year is Flash Back Retro Pub, in the space previously occupied by Dallas Bike Works. This would be the second location of a vintage video arcade bar in Tulsa.
Typo’s owner, David Spence, also recently put lighted placemaking signs on top of the building, which he says are reminiscent of the historic 1930s highway that West Davis was originally.
