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The chic interior of Meridian at The Village
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It’s pretty rare that summer is a hot time for new restaurant openings, but this summer was different (as you may have noticed). While closings have slowed in the past few months, some of them have been hit hard.
Long-time Knox Henderson hot dog and pudding shop Wild About Harry’s served its final customers on July 4th. After 66 years in Dallas, Mac’s Bar-B-Que closed on July 26th.
Also in July, Burguesa Burgers in Oak Cliff, Oak in the Design District and Lakewood Smokehouse closed.
Since we have no choice, we take the bad with the good. Fortunately, a lot of good is happening in the dining scene in Dallas and the surrounding suburbs.
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The newest cocktail hotspot, Apothecary (1922 Greenville Ave.) landed in Lowest Greenville in July. The dimly lit cocktail lounge brings clever craft cocktails and Alex Gonzalez gave us a first look. Later that summer, sister company Rye (111 W. Virginia St., McKinney) will open a location in Dallas next door in the location previously occupied by Laurel Tavern.
In the upper part of Greenville, restaurants have opened at The Village and Meridian (5656 Village Glen Drive) is the newest. Chef Junior Borges puts modern Brazilian cuisine in the spotlight, and E. Mayne wrote our first look at this sexy, hip nightclub.
The long-awaited Loro (1812 N. Haskell Ave.) has finally opened in Old East Dallas. The Asian smokehouse collaboration between chef Tyson Cole and the famous pit master Aaron Franklin conjures up beef and other proteins. Our food editor Lauren Drewes Daniels is in love with the brisket jam cheeseburger, because who wouldn’t be?
In the Epic development in Deep Ellum, Harper’s (2525 Elm St.) opens for dinner on August 6th. The spacious, jet-setter style restaurant with globally inspired food and drink is the latest from Milkshake Concepts. Other Deep Ellum restaurants in this group include Serious PIzza, Stirr, Vidora, and SkyRocket Burgers. Harper’s promise to be epic. We’ll have a first look at it soon.
A whiskey bar has finally opened on the grounds of the Expo Park, the opening of which attracted D Magazine more than two years ago. Whiskeys (835 Exposition Ave.), a glamorous bar for whiskey lovers, announced regular opening times after a brief soft opening on Instagram. The bar is located in the former Fallout Lounge and is run by Sean Smith and Antonio Everette from Sandaga 13. The bar has a huge selection of whiskeys and advertises some very rare offerings.
Downtown hasn’t missed any store openings, with at least two in the last month following the grand opening of The Exchange Food Hall in June. Zero Gradi (2000 Ross Ave., Ste. 180), an Australian gelateria and dessert bar that is supposed to take you to the Amalfi Coast, has opened next to 400 Gradi. That’s a whirlwind of a trip right there.
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Uno Mas is located next to the eyeball in the city center. And it’s great that we can write that and everyone just knows.
Lauren Drewes Daniels
Uno Mas (1525 Main St.), the Tex-Mex restaurant and bar, has opened in the space vacated by Queso Beso. (It’s her second location so it’s really uno mas.)
At Paradiso in Bishop Arts, the recently opened Mermaid Raw Bar (308 N. Bishop Ave.) combines oysters and champagne in a beautiful maritime-style courtyard. We got a first look at their cocktails, raw oysters and small seafood platters in mid-July.
In West Dallas, the formerly closed Tacos Mariachi has reopened as Milagro Taco Cantina (440 Singleton Blvd., # 100), just blocks from the popular original Taqueria of chef and owner Jesus Carmona. Our food critic Brian Reinhart is thrilled to discover much of the mariachi menu replicated there, as well as some new menu items.
Also in the neighborhood is the ArtPark (331 Singleton Blvd # 100), a new outdoor spot for eating, drinking and playing. Part beer garden, part street art gallery, it will function as an extension of the restaurant complex in Trinity Groves with food from EATS and other restaurants in the center. We shared a few photos and a first look back in July.
Union Hall Kitchen and Furlough Brothers opened as ghost kitchens on (921 W. Commerce St.) just a few blocks away. Union only offers burgers, beer and chicken for pick-up or delivery. Furlough Bros. has some mean cheesesteaks.
Pie Tap Pizza Workshop + Bar has launched the first of its new concepts for PT Neighborhood Pizzeria (5715 Lemmon Ave., # 3) near Love Field. Angie Quebedeaux gave us her superb sandwiches, salads and pizzas made from her locally famous batter.
Wok Star Chinese (8041 Walnut Hill Lane) is now open in The Hill Shopping Center with a music themed and Chinese food in American and more traditional styles. Hand pulled noodles are the star of the show here, and sometimes they are the show when Chef Charlie Zhang twists and pulls and tosses them around for your entertainment.
Dutch Bros Coffee (2309 W. Park Row Drive, Pantego) is less of a show than an atmosphere, but very entertaining. Lauren Drewes Daniels checked out the latest in Pantego, but that’s just the beginning of expanding her drive-through operation. With stores in Plano and Frisco and several new stores opening in the near future, you can expect one to be near you soon.
The Dallas area burbs also have their share of new restaurants. In Irving, What the Biryani opened at 3601 Regent Blvd., 150 Ste. On the ever-growing Regent Boulevard off I-635. The Toyota Music Factory has a new restaurant, Claudi B’s (370 West Las Colinas Blvd., Suite 102), a new hot chicken spot in Nashville that also serves burgers.
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Cioppino at Urban Seafood Co., now open in Plano.
Angie Quebedeaux
Plano also got a new Biryani restaurant with Twist of South (8450 Angels Dr.), and the Urban Seafood Company (1104 E. 14th St.) joined the sibling restaurants Urban Rio and Urban Crust in the city center.
At The Colony, Ollio Patisserie (The Colony) bakes cookies, macarons, croissants and more.
Our BBQ Road Trip series by Chris Wolfgang was smoky and juicy. And who has to leave the city?
Carrollton has a new Mochinut (3052 Old Denton Road, # 104) and Lewisville has a new location from Sfereco (233 W Church St.), the meatball-centric restaurant that started at the Statler Hotel and has another location in Flower Mound.
In the downtown McKinney plaza, New York City-based Mad for Chicken (216 W. Virginia St., # 102) brings amazingly crispy-winged Korean fried chicken, kimchi fries and more to Texas. If you’re in the mood for some of that chicken, there is also a newly opened location at Flower Mound (1050 Flower Mound Road, # 280).
Friscoites chew on chicken wings in a surprising place. The newest Sharetea (9351 Warren Parkway) has opened softly, and locals enjoy soy garlic, sweet and flavorful or spicy wings, and other foods with their bubble tea.
Siren Rock Brewing Co. (310 S Goliad St.) in Rockwall held its grand opening last weekend, and the new location is a blast. With several beer gardens and a spacious interior, there is space to walk around and get to know their beers.
There are certainly more openings that we haven’t covered here, and more will be coming soon. Check our website daily for new stories about Dallas restaurants and bars or subscribe to our Food and Drink newsletter to stay up to date.
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