It occurred. Tom Cruise promised the world he would eat barbecue in Dallas, and he did. Whereas on the town to advertise his forthcoming Mission: Unattainable film, he carried out an especially attainable mission and received his buns over to Pecan Lodge in Deep Ellum.
Whereas Pecan Lodge is a strong selection — it’s one of many longstanding barbecue spots in Dallas and nonetheless has a spot on Eater’s barbecue map —it wasn’t on our listing of strategies for Cruise. What we’re actually disillusioned by is that within the period of Keith Lee meals opinions, there was no follow-up video of Cruise consuming and telling us his ideas. Nearly every little thing we all know is third-hand: or instance, the Dallas Morning Information reported {that a} spokesperson (it’s unclear in the event that they had been talking on behalf of the actor or the restaurant) stated that Cruise stated the meat ribs had been the star of the present. What does that even imply? It implies that he ate and loved the meat ribs, nevertheless it doesn’t explicitly say that.
Barely extra satisfying proof comes from Tribal All Day Cafe’s Instagram, of all locations. Its founder was there when Cruise stopped by (tipped off by the restaurant proprietor community, we assume), and so we have now precise affirmation that Cruise was in Pecan Lodge.
What we will see is that there’s meals on the desk beside Cruise, which can or will not be the place he sat to eat. That features a tray with a grease stain, indicating some meals will need to have been eaten off it by somebody, sooner or later. Nonetheless on the tray is what seems to be brisket or a rib with a heavy bark. Straight behind Cruise is a paper plate with a lot of wadded-up napkins on prime and just a little little bit of this similar bark-covered meat. So if this was Cruise’s seat, he received his palms soiled digging in.
However nonetheless, there are questions. Why is Cruise carrying sun shades inside? Why is everybody else on this picture half a foot behind him? There’s a largely empty to-go container of mac and cheese on the finish of the desk — did Cruise eat that, too? What was the entire order? Did he solely eat beef ribs, and is that due to a selected dietary routine?
Our apologies to Cruise and his spokesperson, however we’re going to wish a full video assessment, or this by no means occurred.