2024 will be the year of burgers, pasta, and barbecue, as per our list of the most exciting new restaurants opening in Dallas-Fort Worth next year. However, 2024 will also be a year of recovery.
The revived restaurants of 2024 are championed by people who care enough to keep old ideas new, and by people who have found the capital to reinvent history.
St. Martin's Wine Bistro, the Greenville Avenue restaurant where Dalasi people have celebrated anniversaries and birthdays to live piano music for decades, will reopen on Bryan Street in early 2024 . Margie's Italian Gardens, his 1953 family-owned pasta restaurant in Fort Worth, will return to its former glory in 2024 at the same address, some 71 years later.
And here's the latest news. The father and daughter owners of the beloved Stoneleigh P's have signed a lease on Lemon Her Avenue and plan to move in in spring 2024. After 50 years in business in Maple, she lost her lease.
However, other established restaurants were unable to participate in 2023. Therefore, let's first offer a moment of silence. Ranchman's in Ponder. Cisco Grill at University Park. Great American Heroes of Dallas. The Original Original His Mexican Eats in Fort Worth. others.
We decided to honor Dallas-Fort Worth's historic restaurants. And we're rooting for restaurateurs who are helping keep restaurants afloat, like Benbrook resident Gigi Howell, who is reinventing Margie's Italian His Garden. It's as if we've come to know what happened after owner/chef Margie's death.
Margie opened this restaurant in 1953. “Margie was in the kitchen smoking, cooking and wearing red lipstick,” Howell said. Howell's mother worked at Margie's. When Howell was a child, she entered through the back door like her family did. (Interestingly, she thought Margie was her real grandmother until Howell learned otherwise.)
“When I was a baby, she would sit on my hip while she stirred the sauce,” Howell says.
Margie passed away many years ago, but the memory of her big-haired, red-lipped 1950s beauty lives on. Howell is doing what other restaurateurs in North Texas are going to do in 2024: keep the memories alive.
“We want people to come in and say, 'Yeah.' this This is what this restaurant looked like,” Howell said.
Restaurants are listed in order of scheduled opening date.
St. Martin's Wine Bistro in Old East Dallas
The owners of St. Martin's Wine Bistro have vowed to keep the longtime French restaurant open after it closes on Greenville Avenue. Piano, artwork and white tablecloth. Everything has been moved south to Bryan Street, where the family hopes to recreate the fine-dining romance of the original 1980 version. “It's been a part of many people's lives for a long time,” Omid Haftrang said. dallas morning news In mid-2023. Expect Champagne Brie Soup and Escargot to be back on the menu, as they were before. Lobster Newberg (shellfish in cognac cream sauce) is new to the menu, but a classic.
- opening date:February 2024
- cooking: French-American, live music every day
- address: 4223 Bryan St., Dallas
Bugatti Ristorante at Farmers Branch
Michael Bugatti has been selling pasta at his namesake restaurant in Dallas since 1980. Bugatti tells a funny story about his move to Dallas, which he recalls as “a big city with nowhere to eat.” (Today, he says, “Dallas has become a great food city.”) When he and restaurant president Gee Aziz worked for more than 30 years on Dallas' Northwest Highway and Lemon Avenue, is the most famous. Bugatti believes he will be able to move to his branch of Farmers in 2024 and both owners will be able to reach a broader customer base from the Dallas suburbs. They will be moving to a new development at Interstate 635 and Interstate 35E with some interesting new restaurants.
- opening date: March 2024
- cooking: Italian
- address: 1940 Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway, Farmers Branch
Margie's Italian Gardens in Fort Worth
The spirit of Italian immigrant Margie Walters still lingers in a vacant storefront at Camp Bowie West in Fort Worth's Westland neighborhood. Since opening in 1953, Margie's Italian Gardens has been one of the nicest restaurants in West Fort Worth. Gigi Howell would walk in her back door every Friday night to greet Margie and eat rigatoni with meat sauce with her godmother when she was a child. Howell celebrated almost every birthday there after that. The restaurant remained open for decades, until Howell made plans to reinvent the restaurant in his 2023 year, along with several other establishments in the former Westland location. The owner's spirit is gone.
The new Margie's Italian Gardens will feature an extensive Italian menu in honor of Margie, including lasagna, pizza, chicken Parmesan and “saucy and delicious” meatballs, Howell said. “I hope I made her proud,” Howell said. “She was such a cool person. If I could be half as good as she was, that would be really great.”
- opening date: March or April 2024
- cooking: Italian
- address: 9805 Camp Bowie West Blvd., Fort Worth
Stoneley P of Dallas
Stoneleigh P just celebrated her 50th birthday. The party was bittersweet, as owner Tom Garrison and his daughter Laura Garrison knew at the time that Mr. P would have to move because his landlord would not renew his lease. . Why is this location, once home to Weird Girlfriend's 24-hour dance-offs, anywhere other than Maple Girlfriend Avenue? It's not the place, says Laura Garrison, that's important, it's the people. Memories of the hilarious fundraiser with Kinky Friedman and the burgers enjoyed by celebrities Owen Wilson and Kenny Loggins will be remembered with them, as will the menu of burgers, wings and draft Lone Star beer. Laura Garrison is 29 years old and has been involved with P all her life, and she's both excited and scared. “If she's not scared, it's not worth it,” she says.
P will be open on Maple until mid-spring 2024, then relocated.
- opening date: March or April 2024 — in time to celebrate your 51st birthday on April 15, 2024
- cooking: hamburger and beer
- address: 4218 Lemmon Ave., Dallas
Pulido's Mexican Restaurant in Fort Worth
Two months after the owners of popular Tex-Mex restaurant Pulido's announced they would close the restaurant after 57 years, Gigi Howell and her business partners Burke Harvey and Mark McBride are working to save the restaurant. I rushed to (You know, right? Their restaurant group is reviving Margie's Italian Gardens and reinventing the neighborhood gas station as a cocktail bar called Fuel Stop 80.) They also sell burgers at J.D. and West Side Café. (We also sell diner food at .) Pulido's name will live on in the world. Harvey said in a statement that the decision was made out of “great respect for the tradition that the restaurant has built.” Pedro and Dionia Pulido are known for their combo plates called Papa Dinner and Mama Dinner, and Howell said those will be on the menu when Pulido returns.
- opening date: Spring 2024
- cooking: Tex-Mex
- address: 2900 Pulido St., Fort Worth
Jackson Texas Kitchen in Las Colinas
Piggybacking off the $500 million Wells Fargo campus being built in the Irving-Las Colinas area, Democratic-FW entrepreneur Kevin Lillis plans to feed the banking company's roughly 6,000 employees. , plans to open a beer garden called Jackson Texas Kitchen. It may seem nostalgic, but Lillis opened his Jaxon on his AT&T campus in downtown Dallas several years ago. Although the restaurant has closed, Lillis was, and still is, Jackson, he said. Jackson 2.0, near the Toyota Music Factory, will serve a combination of American and Southern cuisine, including cheeseburgers and fried chicken sandwiches. A barbecue joint and cocktail lounge are expected to be located nearby, two other indicators that eateries near the Toyota Music Factory are getting a much-needed do-over.
- Opening date:September 2024
- cooking: American
- address: 340 W. Las Colinas Blvd., Irving
III Addison's Branch
The original III Forks, a landmark for birthdays and business dinners, closed in 2020 after nearly 23 years in North Dallas. The restaurant was an iconic restaurant serving expensive steaks and decadent desserts in a nearly 25,000-square-foot palace. III Forks reopened in Frisco during the pandemic, and in 2024, III Forks will make a triumphant return to Addison, just a few miles from its former home. Executive Chef Chris Vogeli grills steaks in the Addison kitchen. III Forks President Curtis Osmond said food and service will remain the same, but the restaurant will operate out of a 6,000-square-foot dining room. “It's likely to be more intimate and more festive,” he says.
- Opening date: Late 2024
- cooking: Steak
- address: 5100 Belt Line Road, Suite 800, Dallas
