Café Dior by Dominique Crenn is still one of the more unusual things happening in Dallas dining, and it’s still going strong more than a year after it opened inside the Dior boutique at Highland Park Village. CraveDFW covered the opening in depth back in March 2025, walking through the full menu, the design, and the collaboration between Dior and three-Michelin-starred chef Dominique Crenn. For anyone who missed it the first time, or wants a refresher before booking a table, here’s where things stand now.
The concept hasn’t changed. Café Dior remains one of only a handful of Dior cafés in the world, joining locations in Paris, Miami, and Tokyo, and it’s still the only one built around a full fine-dining menu rather than just coffee and pastries. The space sits on the second floor above the Dior boutique, roughly twelve tables set with the brand’s own dishware, and the menu still draws its inspiration directly from pieces in the Dior archive, translating specific dresses and silhouettes into actual dishes.
The main menu still centers on dishes named for pieces from the Dior archive. The Miss Dior Consommé, a chicken broth built with grains and blossoms, takes its name and color palette from the house’s spring-summer 1949 line. The May Hamachi is a citrus-and-chili crudo named for the spring-summer 1953 collection, and the Montaigne Garden is a lighter starter, zucchini and apple in a sherry vinaigrette. For mains, the Tuna Violette pairs bigeye tuna with citrus, the Marbella Prawns and Salmon Barbizon round out the seafood side, and the La Colle Noire Chicken remains one of the more talked-about plates on the menu, all of it plated with the same attention to color and shape that defines Dior’s fashion side.
Hours remain the same as they were at opening: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
The afternoon tea service is still running too, and it’s worth its own look. Savory bites include the Caviar and Watercress Choux, a delicate pastry puff filled with caviar and watercress cream, alongside finger sandwiches built in the same French tea-service tradition. On the sweet side, the Pina Colada Baba au Rhum soaks a rum-drenched cake in pineapple and coconut, and the dessert course rotates through additional pastries built by Executive Pastry Chef Juan Contreras, each one still designed to echo a specific piece from the Dior archive the same way the savory menu does. The full tea service runs $75 per person.
The walk-up bar remains the easiest way in without a reservation, still pouring cocktails and serving caviar and bread and butter service for anyone who doesn’t want to plan a full sit-down meal in advance.
One update worth knowing: current listings note Café Dior has refreshed its menu since the original opening lineup, so a few of the specific dishes covered above and in last year’s piece may have shifted or rotated out by the time you visit. Reservations are still recommended and still fill up fast, and the same advice from the original piece still holds, sign up for cancellation notifications on the restaurant’s own site if a same-week table isn’t available.
More than a year in, Café Dior hasn’t lost the novelty that made it a story in the first place. It’s still the rare place in Dallas where the plate is designed to reference a dress, and it’s still worth the reservation.
