The Design District’s transformation into Dallas’s dinner-and-a-show corridor continues. Juliet, the Houston steakhouse built around a movie-theater fantasy, is coming to 1400 Hi Line Drive, directly next door to Delilah, with a late-summer opening targeted for August.
Juliet opened in Houston’s Galleria area in 2022 and quickly became a room where famous people turn up unannounced. Drake picked up dinner tabs for strangers there on Valentine’s Day. Lizzo followed a sold-out rodeo set with a private feast that reportedly worked through most of the menu. The restaurant describes itself as Modern American Vibe Dining, drawing on the big-room energy of Los Angeles, New York, London, and Las Vegas, and the cinema theme is not a light touch.
The entrance plays the part of a theater lobby down to the popcorn machine, and the Glass Room screens classic films on projectors and widescreens through dinner service. A flower wall bearing the Juliet logo handles the photographs, and there will be photographs.
The kitchen belongs to executive chef Jeff Auld, who will run Dallas as well as Houston. The menu’s calling card is the 24 Karat Gold Tomahawk Ribeye, a gold-wrapped presentation that has launched a thousand posts, but the food beneath the shine runs broader: the Honey Truffle Chicken has become a Houston signature, and dishes like the Korean crispy short rib tacos and the blue crab and avocado stack suggest a kitchen more playful than the average vibe-dining operation. Owner James McGhee has said the Dallas expansion is a response to years of Dallas diners making the drive south.
The address is the story within the story. Delilah arrived on Hi Line and promptly became one of the hardest tables in the city, and Juliet is betting the neighborhood can hold two supper clubs built on spectacle. Whether the Design District becomes Dallas’s answer to a Vegas restaurant row or simply its most photographed block, the corridor between the showrooms is suddenly where the city’s biggest openings want to be.
Dallas has seen vibe dining come and go, and the ones that last are the ones that can actually cook. Houston’s four-year run suggests Juliet may be in the second category. August will tell.
Juliet is expected to open at 1400 Hi Line Drive in the Dallas Design District in late summer. Details on the Houston original are at juliethtx.com.
