Al Biernat’s is finally doing something it hasn’t done in almost thirty years: crossing over into Fort Worth. The Dallas steakhouse just signed a lease on a building at 913 Houston St., across from the Flat Iron Building and directly opposite where the city’s new Convention Center ballroom is going up. It’ll be the restaurant’s third location, and its first outside Dallas proper.
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The building at 110 W. Bailey Street in Ponder has been standing since 1903, and for most of the past 78 years it has smelled like fried chicken and hot grease. That smell is back. Ranchman’s, the small-town steakhouse that once pulled Hollywood and literary royalty off the highway, reopened the first week of July under new ownership, and the people running it went out of their way not to mess with what made it famous in the first place.
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Dakota’s Steakhouse in Southlake has a foundation date now, and it also has a firm answer on when the doors open: 2027.
Southlake City Council approved the site plan for Dakota’s new location at its August 4 meeting, signing off on elevations for three retail buildings, updated designs for the event center, and revised parking for the project now known as Kirkwood Reserve. Developer Tim McEneny told the council crews have finished pouring an 820-foot retaining wall on the property and expect to pour the restaurant’s foundation soon. He put the total project cost at around $25 million.
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Three days after Chris Jordan and his partners signed the lease on their new steakhouse, a Dodge Challenger ran off White Settlement Road and drove straight through the storefront. The explosion made the local news. A few months later, once repairs were mostly finished, a second Dodge Challenger, nearly identical to the first, did it again.
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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.
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Joseph Palladino spent years helping build Nick & Sam’s into one of the most recognizable steakhouses in Dallas, then went to New York, opened Palladino’s Steak & Seafood at Grand Central Terminal, watched it become one of the hottest openings in the city — The NY Post, The Today Show, Humans of New York — and then did exactly what everyone who knew him expected: he brought it back to Dallas. The doors open tonight at 5959 Royal Lane, Suite 635 in Preston Royal Village, the 9,850-square-foot former Spec’s space next to La La Land Kind Cafe.
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When Joseph Palladino co-founded Nick & Sam’s in 1999, he helped establish the template for what a Dallas steakhouse could be — loud, celebratory, thick with regulars, the kind of room that feeds off its own energy. He eventually moved on from that partnership, spent years building other concepts including the Coal Vines pizza chain, and then did something unexpected: he went to New York and opened a steakhouse at Grand Central Terminal. Palladino’s Steak & Seafood launched in September at the historic Grand Central space that last housed Michael Jordan’s restaurant, and it became one of the year’s most talked-about New York openings almost immediately. Now it’s coming home.
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Dallas has always taken its beef seriously. Long before the city had a fine dining scene worth talking about, it had steakhouses — and the best of them have held their ground through every food trend that’s blown through town. Today the options stretch from old-school rooms where the booths are deep and the wine list is serious, to newer places with a more modern approach. What follows is a look at where to find a great steak, organized by area, so you can find what’s closest or worth the drive.
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