9 new restaurants and bars opening on Dallas’ Lowest Greenville

Lowest Greenville has been one of Dallas’s busiest dining districts for years, but it’s also a revolving door for restaurants that keep opening and closing.

The pandemic may have accelerated some of these closings, wiping out Gung Ho Asian restaurant; Terrace on site Laurel Tavern; Roof terrace eastside tavern; Tacos mariachi and more. But almost all of these leases have been snapped up, and hungry new restaurateurs are actively moving in.

Lowest Greenville is going to be a buzz this summer. Here’s a look at all of the new restaurants opening in the neighborhood this summer.

The restaurants are listed in order of likely opening in Lowest Greenville, which is defined as the Dallas neighborhood that is south of Belmont Avenue on or near Greenville Avenue.

Flames

Chef owners Amy and Casey La Rue will open Carte Blanche in Dallas in mid-June 2021.(Brandon Wade / special article)

When the husband-and-wife cooking team Casey and Amy LaRue moved to Dallas just before the pandemic broke out, they hosted intimate pop-up dinners at Airbnbs. They packed their own dining table, glasses, plates, and cookware into a car and then served a seven- to nine-course dinner to strangers at someone else’s house. All of the cooking is getting a lot easier now that the LaRues have a lease on the former Mudsmith Coffee on Greenville Avenue. They call the restaurant Carte Blanche, and it’s a 4- or 12-course tasting menu with optional wine or tea accompaniment. The things I’ve seen in person are beautifully prepared and intricate, like the wild boar belly served with pea romesco and marcona almond foam. (And that would be just one of 12 courses: prepare your stomach!) In the morning, Carte Blanche is operated as a bakery and Amy LaRue, the pastry chef, sells homemade croissants, Danish pastries, donuts and bread. There is drip coffee – no espresso – and tea latte.

Carte Blanche is located at 2114 Greenville Ave., Dallas. It is expected to open on June 15, 2021. Reservations are now possible on Tock.

Shoyo

Found and Chef Jimmy Park (left) and Chef Shinichiro Kondo prepare a salmon belly dish at Shoyo in Dallas.Found and Chef Jimmy Park (left) and Chef Shinichiro Kondo prepare a salmon belly dish at Shoyo in Dallas.(Jason Janik / special article)

We called it one of the most exciting restaurants to open in Dallas in 2021, and after seeing Chef Jimmy Park and Chef Shinichiro Kondo in action at their new Omakase restaurant on Greenville Avenue, Shoyo has the potential to be exquisite . It is a Japanese tasting menu with 16 or 17 courses and the restaurant has only 12 seats. In the two-hour culinary experience, the chefs hand customers every bite and teach them how to eat it. For example: Chef Kondo put a salmon belly on warm rice and then finished it off with a dollop of basil pesto and a small piece of mozzarella cheese. “One bite,” he ordered. It was silky and rich, with a touch of garlic from the pesto – the kind of bite you don’t want to end.

Shoyo is 1916 Greenville Ave., Dallas. It opens on June 22, 2021. Resy reservations should be available by mid-June.

Dallas chef Jimmy Park will open a sushi restaurant on Greenville Avenue in Dallas in 2021.

Manpuku Japanese Yakiniku Grill

Manpuku Japanese Yakiniku Grill is a grill restaurant opening on Greenville Avenue in Dallas in the summer of 2021.Manpuku Japanese Yakiniku Grill is a grill restaurant opening on Greenville Avenue in Dallas in the summer of 2021.(Emi Naito)

This Japanese grilled meat restaurant was founded in Tokyo 70 years ago. Manpuku on Greenville Avenue will be the first in Texas. The parent company’s CEO describes the dining experience as fun and busy as customers are served raw protein and vegetables cooked at the table on hot grills. That’s why yakiniku is in the name: it means grilled meat. Customers can order a la carte or spring food for an omakase meal at a cost of $ 40 to $ 100 per person. One of the typical dishes is Negi Shio Yakiniku, or sliced ​​beef with grated garlic, sesame oil, spring onions, and sesame seeds.

Manpuku Japanese Yakiniku Grill is located on 2023 Greenville Avenue, Dallas. It is expected to open on June 29, 2021. Reservations are now possible at the Open Table.

Haystack Burgers and Barley opened at Turtle Creek Village in Dallas in January 2017.  It was closed in May 2021.

Rye and pharmacy

This is a two. Rye is an American restaurant in McKinney expanding on the Laurel Tavern premises in Lowest Greenville. Dishes like cacio e pepe and roasted orange-braised pork belly lollipops are among the original’s bestsellers and are said to be on the menu in Dallas. Apothecary will be Rye’s cocktail bar, next door where the Wah Wah Room used to be. CEO and co-owner Tanner Agar describes it as an avant-garde cocktail bar that serves creative cocktails that don’t quite go with Rye. Pharmacists will also have light bites.

Rye is located at 1920 Greenville Ave., Dallas; The pharmacy is next door on 1922 Greenville Avenue, Dallas. The pharmacy first opens on July 7th, 2021. Rye is expected to open in August 2021.

Cacio e pepe is one of the most popular dishes at Rye in McKinney.  The owners will open a second location in Dallas in spring 2021.

Eddie’s Tex-Mex Cocina

The restaurateur Eddie Cervantes, who founded the famous Tex-Mex restaurant Primo’s on McKinney Avenue in Uptown three decades ago, opens a restaurant with his name. Eddie’s Tex-Mex Cocina will be moving to the heart of Lowest Greenville, where Tacos Mariachi was. Cervantes tells CultureMap that he “always loved Greenville Avenue” and that the menu will be similar to his other restaurant, Tex Mex e-bar on Haskell Avenue in East Dallas.

Eddie’s Tex-Mex Cocina is located in 2018 on Greenville Ave., Dallas. Opening date still open; “Hire Now” signs are at the top.

Hide

Green Tara, a cocktail at Hide in Deep Ellum, is on the new menu at Greenville Avenue restaurant / bar.Green Tara, a cocktail at Hide in Deep Ellum, is on the new menu at Greenville Avenue restaurant / bar.(Marc Ramírez)

Dallas Cocktail Bar and Restaurant Hide drops Deep Ellum in favor of Lowest Greenville. We like this quote from owner Nick Backlund in a story we wrote in April 2021: “Our audience was more of a chill cocktail atmosphere than a rageface party atmosphere,” he says, comparing Lowest Greenville to Deep Ellum . Hide will take over the former Eastide Social, a two-story bar that never really got going. (Before that, it was Nora, an Afghan restaurant that Guy Fieri visited for an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.) Hide will have a strong cocktail focus, with food. In a cute coming home story, Backlund got his first job as a server at HG Sply Co. a few doors down. He also met his wife in the neighborhood. “I have great memories of Lower Greenville,” he says.

Hide is 1928 Greenville Ave., Dallas. It is expected to open in August 2021.

Feng Cha

Feng Cha is a quick-casual tea house that sells coffee, tea, smoothies, and desserts. Master franchisor Yan Chen brought the franchise to the US in 2017, and there are eight Feng Cha stores in Dallas-Fort Worth and 18 nationwide. Shops are coming soon in Southlake and Forney, and Addison Restaurant will open on June 12, 2021. Popular products in Feng Cha are the classic milk tea; Strawberry-laden fruit tea and Dirty Boba, a milk drink with brown sugar caramel, cheese milk foam and crème brûlée on top.

Feng Cha is located on 1917 Greenville Avenue, Dallas. It is expected to open in mid-July 2021.

Bonus: Buddy’s liquor

Buddy’s Booze moves into the former Don Chingon restaurant. We don’t know any more at the moment. There is a sign on the building that reads “Coming soon” and the crews are now converting the room.

Buddy’s Booze is located at 2237 Greenville Ave., Dallas. Opening date still open.

And that’s not all! At least two more restaurants are expected to open on Lowest Greenville in the fall of 2021. Information on this will be published in the future.

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