Dallas has two Michelin-starred restaurants right now — Tatsu in Deep Ellum and Mamani in Uptown. Both earned it. But the guide has been in Texas for two years and the inspectors have a lot of ground left to cover. These six restaurants are doing the kind of work that should have them on that list already.
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Most restaurants treat National Wine Day as an excuse to discount a bottle of house red. The Mexican is doing something more interesting.
On Monday, May 25 at 6:30 p.m., the Design District restaurant at 1401 Turtle Creek Blvd. is hosting a wine dinner built entirely around Mexican wines — three courses, boutique producers, $125 per person. Seating is limited and reservations require payment to confirm.
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Henderson Avenue has always been a good street. What’s happening to it right now might make it a great one.
Salt & Straw opened this past weekend at 2323 N. Henderson, the Portland ice cream company’s first Texas location. PopUp Bagels has a second Dallas location confirmed for the same block. Cranes are up on the eastern end of the corridor where a 161,000-square-foot development is going vertical. And Tristan Simon — the man who built Henderson into what it is in the first place — is coming back to do it again.
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Monarch turns five this month, and the wood-fired Italian restaurant on the 49th floor of The National is marking it with a five-course dinner on Thursday, May 28 at 6 p.m. The evening runs $250 per person for dinner alone, $300 if you want to stay for the after-party upstairs at Kessaku on the 50th floor. The after-party is also available on its own for $125.
The menu was built around the five senses, which sounds like a concept that could go sideways fast but reads like it was thought through. Chef Danny Grant and Monarch’s executive chef Jason Rohan put it together alongside pastry chef Mariella Bueza Tello. The evening opens with passed bites, a seafood display, and charcuterie before moving into the courses proper.
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A new tasting menu restaurant called Punk Noir opens June 2 in Dallas’ Design District at 139 Turtle Creek Blvd. The concept is owned by Dallas natives John McKeel and his sons Cole and Clay, and it’s being run in the kitchen by James Beard Award–winning Chef RJ Cooper, who built his reputation at Rogue 24 in Washington, D.C. and a handful of acclaimed Nashville projects before landing here.
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The line outside Weinberger’s Deli on Main Street in Grapevine has been a given for years. You show up at noon on a Saturday and there are people stacked out the door. The food earns it. The seating never did. Dan Weinberger has heard the complaints — five stars for food, one star for seating — and he’s finally done something about it.
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Tom Fleming has been cooking professionally since 1990. He spent decades in fine dining — the kind of kitchens where you don’t leave until midnight and the pressure never really lets up. At some point he decided he wanted to tuck his daughters into bed at night. So, he opened a breakfast place.
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Salt & Straw opened this morning on Henderson Avenue. If you’ve heard the name and wondered what the fuss was about, today is a good day to find out.
The Portland-based ice cream company set up at 2323 N. Henderson Ave., Suite 107 — right next door to Gemma, open daily from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. The phone is (214) 716-2440. You can walk up or order ahead at order.thanx.com/saltandstraw.
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