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by Steven Doyle | October 23, 2026 · 1:53 pm

From Rooftops to Beer Gardens, Five Dallas Spots Made for Day Drinking

The heat finally broke, the patios are full again, and nobody in Dallas has to sweat through a shirt just to sit outside with a cold one. This is the season the city waits all summer for. Round up a few friends, pick a spot, and let a Saturday afternoon stretch until somebody remembers they had plans.

Here are five places that do day drinking right, from Lower Greenville to Oak Cliff, with a little something for the beer people, the brunch people and the friend who only drinks mezcal.

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The Statler at 70: History, Hidden Bars and What to Order at Every Spot Inside

Dallas threw the Statler Hilton a four-day party when it opened on Commerce Street in 1956. The city had not seen a major new hotel downtown in 30 years, and this one cost $16 million, ranked as the largest hotel in the Southwest and had a ballroom that held 2,200 people. It also turned out to be the last hotel the Statler chain ever built. Hilton had just bought the company.

The building was a show-off from day one. A cantilevered concrete slab let it climb higher than anyone expected, and the skin was glass and porcelain panels in that unmistakable midcentury teal. Historic Hotels of America credits it as the first building anywhere with elevator music and the first hotel with a 21-inch Westinghouse television in every room. There was a heliport on the roof, too, for guests who preferred to skip traffic from the airport.

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Via Triozzi Just Added Sunday Brunch — and the Rooftop Above

Leigh Hutchinson opened Via Triozzi on Lower Greenville in August 2023 and it landed immediately — handmade pasta, a Sicilian-American grandmother’s recipes, flour imported from Italy, and a room that felt nothing like the chain Italian that had been filling the gap in Dallas for years. The lasagne al forno became the dish people drove for. The bistecca alla fiorentina gave it range. The all-Italian wine list, built around natural and low-intervention producers, gave it a point of view.

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