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by | October 30, 2026 · 9:02 am

Sundown at Granada Serves Its Last Meal Sunday, Here’s How to Say Goodbye

If Sundown at Granada is one of your places, you have until Sunday.

Sundown, the restaurant next door to the Granada Theater on Lower Greenville, will serve its last day of regular restaurant service on Sunday, November 1. Owners Mike Schoder and Julia Garton announced on October 23 that they have sold both Sundown and the Granada Theater to Bathhouse, a New York-based wellness and spa brand. Sundown will keep hosting private events through December 31. The Granada will keep the music going a little longer, with shows and events through April 17, 2027.

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by | October 29, 2026 · 10:38 am

Ramble Room Is the Snider Plaza Brunch You End Up Going Back To

Every neighborhood needs a place you can walk into on a Saturday without a plan. In Snider Plaza, that place is Ramble Room, and brunch is when it feels most like home.

Ramble Room sits on the south end of the plaza at 6565 Hillcrest Ave. It’s Jon Alexis’s restaurant, and if you know his story, it makes sense. He built his name selling fish at TJ’s Seafood, then had a hit with Tex-Mex at Escondido. When he opened Ramble Room in 2023, he went after something simpler: good American food in a room you’d happily visit on a night when you don’t really feel like going out.

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by | October 22, 2026 · 1:57 pm

Puerto Cocina Introduces Weekend Brunch

Weekends in the Design District have always been quiet along Riveredge Drive. That changes a little this Saturday. Puerto Cocina, the Baja-leaning seafood restaurant from Gerardo Barrera and Mauricio Gallegos, has started serving brunch, and it has added a weekday happy hour built around one-bite seafood plates and a cocktail to go with each.

If those names ring a bell, it’s because Barrera and Gallegos are the pair behind Xamán Café and Ayahuasca Cantina in Oak Cliff. Puerto opened last December on the ground floor of a new office building at 155 Riveredge Dr., with a menu developed alongside chef Anastacia Quiñones-Pittman and her Oh Hi! Hospitality partners. The cooking takes its cues from Valle de Guadalupe, the wine country just inland from Ensenada, which means a raw bar, crudos and tiraditos, house-made masa and a real fondness for shellfish. Texas Monthly added it to its dining guide earlier this year.

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by | October 16, 2026 · 6:24 pm

Brunch Is an Occasion: Where to Gather and Linger in Dallas

There are two kinds of brunch. One is fuel: eggs, coffee and the check before you’ve finished your second cup. The other is an occasion. You gather a table of people you like, order a round, then another, and look up to find it’s somehow 2:30 and nobody wants to leave.

This list is for the second kind. These are Dallas restaurants where the food is good enough to justify the reservation, the drinks are made with care, and nobody is in a hurry to turn your table.

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by | October 15, 2026 · 12:39 pm

Top of the Morning Brings Brisket Benedict and Peach French Toast to Fort Worth

Nick Roditis grew up in Chicago’s Greek restaurant community, where breakfast counters and family-run dining rooms are part of the city’s identity. That’s where he learned the business.

In 2015, he moved to Dallas-Fort Worth to open Yolk‘s first Texas location. That opening came just before the area’s breakfast boom, and in the years since, chain after chain of all-day brunch spots has followed it into North Texas. Roditis spent years helping one of those brands grow.

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by | October 9, 2026 · 4:41 pm

Brunch at Mercat Bistro

Weekend brunch at Mercat Bistro feels a lot like a long Saturday in Paris, only with valet parking. It is a European-style bistro in the Harwood District, and Michelin recommended the place and brunch is one of the easiest ways to see why.

Before you order, know one thing that sets this kitchen apart. Mercat cooks only with beef tallow, rendered in-house from the Harwood District’s own premium beef program, and it uses no nut or seed oils at all. The restaurant calls it a whole-animal, zero-waste approach. It matters most with anything fried, so pay attention to the potato galette and the frites.

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by | September 23, 2026 · 3:39 pm

Weekend Brunch at Avra: Caviar, Cinnamon Rolls and a Little Greek Island in Uptown

Somewhere between the second mimosa and the whole grilled fish, Uptown Dallas starts to feel a long way off. Sunlight fills the glass walls of Avra’s Conservatory, plants hang overhead, and at the next table somebody is working through a tower of oysters at 12:30 on a Sunday without a trace of guilt.

Welcome to weekend brunch at Avra Estiatorio.

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by | September 11, 2026 · 5:59 pm

Bluebonnet & Thyme Opens, and Brunch Is the Meal to Book

Kendall Williams cooked her first Thanksgiving dinner by herself when she was thirteen. Whole meal, whole family, no help. That detail tells you more about the restaurant she just opened than anything on the menu does.

Bluebonnet & Thyme Southern Bistro & Bar is open at 2610 N. Houston St. in Victory Park, in the space that used to be Dirty Bones, right across from the arena. It’s her first brick-and-mortar after a decade of building a name in this city, and she calls the food a Cajun and Texas explosion, which is a fair description of what happens when Louisiana heritage runs into Lone Star cooking in the same kitchen.

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