By Mola Lenghi Businesses at Lincoln Square in North Arlington aren’t just open, they’re booming. “This year is off to a great start and we’re already beating last year’s Super Bowl numbers,” said Brian Olenjack, Owner and Chef of Olenjack’s Grille in the shopping center at Collins Street and Interstate 30 in North Arlington. View [...]

by: Sarah Reiss (D Magazine) Dec 2011 Like taking the lid off a simmering pot of pure Texas, Olenjack’s Grille unveils an approach to contemporary chargrilling that embodies all the hat and cattle those other guys seem to have missed. Less salt dependent than its country cousins, the restaurant—helmed by chef-owner Brian Olenjack—relies instead on [...]

by Diana Thru the grapevine, we heard of this place called Olenjack’s Grille. The only things we knew about the restaurant was that its won a few awards around the DFW area and they had a mean burger – we had to check it out. We were pretty excited / hungry people when we pulled [...]

by Anna Caplan (DFW.com) Feb 2012 Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A woman walks into a bar, and an episode of the Food Network’s Barefoot Contessa is playing on one of two flat-screen TVs. It sounds like a joke, right? I mean, bars are reserved for sports-watching. But don’t go trying to [...]

Ticket holders at Taste of the NFL, a hunger relief fundraiser timed to coincide with the Super Bowl, will have the chance to sample food from eight of the area’s leading chefs at “Flavors of North Texas,” billed as “a unique component” of the yearly event. But the announced line-up suggests the sideshow should have [...]

By Soyong Hong November 23, 2010 Olenjack’s Grille, the namesake restaurant of Executive Chef Brian Olenjack, offers contemporary American cuisine with Texas flair. Though Chicago born, Chef Olenjack is a Texan at heart and palate. He believes in the use of fresh, local ingredients, the sophistication of Texas flavors, and presenting food as art… all [...]

by Andrew Chalk Posted on November 4, 2010. A battle royal raged at The Milestone Culinary Arts Center as chefs from Dallas and Fort Worth battled each other in a competition to make the best pork dish . Events were emceed by Jeffrey Yarbrough. Jump for the joy of cooking competitions! First on was Chef [...]

By Jesse Hughey, Tue., Oct. 5 2010 Held in the store’s upstairs classroom kitchen, Friday night’s “Stone Brewery Gastropub” at Central Market was more cooking class than gastropub beer dinner. It provided such intriguing samples of food and Stone beers that it was impossible not to go downstairs and immediately head to the store’s beer [...]

Olenjack’s: Top 10 Neighborhood Resaurant & Lunch Spot Arlington, Texas (June 09, 2009) – In a nationwide voter poll for OpenTable.com’s annual “Diner’s Choice Awards,” Olenjack’s Grille has earned the title of being the second best neighborhood based restaurant and a top 10 venue for doing lunch across the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. More than 51,000 [...]

by, Rocco “Boss Hog” Loosbrock February 9, 2009 When you have a Chicago bred chef who’s been trained in New England and French cuisine, and he’s lived in Texas for a while, the result is a rare blend of culinary brilliance. It’s from his profound experiences and background that Chef Brian Olenjack gets the inspiration [...]