A collaborative process leads to the menu at Rye Craft Food & Drink, which specializes in its namesake.
“Craft food keeps things simple, but we execute it extremely well,” Rye owner and chef Jeff Qualls said. “Rye is all about food and drinks people can relate to. We want the food we make to remind you of what grandma cooks.”
Qualls, who grew up in Sherman and started cooking when he was 13, said he had dreamed of opening his own restaurant.
Following graduation from the Culinary Institute of America in New York in 2001 as well as a baking and pastry school in Napa Valley, Qualls moved to McKinney in 2003. His extensive cooking resume includes the TPC in Craig Ranch, Hibiscus and Neiman Marcus as pastry chef.
But he said his restaurant dream became a reality when the downtown McKinney location for Rye “fell in his lap” in 2015.
