Burger restaurant from Guy Fieri’s ‘Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives’ to open new location

The original Chop House Burger, which put Arlington on the national foodie map with TV host Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” will reopen, this time in north Arlington.

Kenny Mills’ new restaurant, Chef Kenny’s Chop House Burger, will open by mid-May at 821 NE Green Oaks Blvd. at North Collins Street, Mills said.

He is getting back into the burger business after an 18-month absence. His last restaurant has changed operators and is now Mahogany’s Chop House Burgers, 1700 W. Park Row Drive.

Mills moved on to three other locations in Pantego, Mansfield and southwest Arlington, and also owned a taqueria on South Cooper Street before deciding to return to the Park Row location.

He sold that restaurant after a heart attack, but “quite frankly, sitting on the couch petting my dog is not fun,” he wrote in a online message.

Chef Kenny’s Chop House Burger — the name makes his restaurant different from the old location and also from the downtown Dallas and Fort Worth Chop House Burger — will serve his original burgers and chess pies, he wrote.

In 2011, Fieri’s TV crew praised Chop House’s special brisket-blend bacon/cheddar burger with house-made steak sauce.

The menu also will include Chop House’s “10-pepper” burger, a Swiss-mushroom burger, other specialties and onion rings.

Mills’ restaurant also will serve another holdover from “DDD” — NFL Hall of Famer Earl Campbell’s Hot Links gumbo.

Pies include chocolate chess, cinnamon custard, pecan, apple, and Southern graham cracker-pecan-coconut “sawdust pie.”

Chef Kenny’s Chop House Burger will serve lunch and dinner weekdays and Saturdays, lunch Sundays.