A SLICE OF LIFE The Village’s new food hall changes the game Story by LIESBETH POWERS | Photos courtesy of THE VILLAGE
36 lakehighlands.advocatemag.com AUGUST 2021
BEFORE FOOD TRUCKS and pop-up dining spots and liquordelivery-with-your-meal became fashionable, once and future neighborhood residents could count on one place to eat, drink and be merry: The Country Club at the Village Apartments. Nestled on a huge patch of green space between Skillman and Abrams near Northwest Highway and surrounded by a 9-hole golf course and lots of spots to be seen while exercising, the Village Country Club wasn’t fine dining or a neighborhood bar or a great place to take the family. But if you wanted to be “seen,” that’s where you went. “It was so much fun,” says neighbor Rhonda Clifford. “It was the rare time in life with few responsibilities except for going to work. I actually worked two or three jobs at a time to pay rent and car. “Thursday night was Ladies Night at the Country Club. Weekends were spent by the pool, and we walked to Mariano’s in Old Town Shopping Center (Lovers and Greenville) and the Oasis on Greenville for breakfast. “Then one day, Joe (her husband) and I calculated how much we had spent on rent and started househunting. We looked all over and ended up back in LH, where we both grew up.” As Dallas and The Village have grown, the housing community has built out portions of the old golf course. In its place, a new food hall has entered The Village scene. The Roundhouse Food
