2023 was a rough year, with many small business owners suffering from recession-like conditions while major steakhouses and “club restaurants” thrived. It led to a lot of big-picture thinking about where Dallas is headed.
We don't know exactly where 2024 will take us, but there's a lot happening that excites us. Here's a list of our favorite trends and specific restaurants coming in the new year. The restaurant list has been updated with all the latest information regarding opening times.
More affordable food please
If you're wealthy, 2023 was a good year for new restaurant openings. From Komodo to Crown Block, Mr. Charles to Sushi Bar, dinner at most of this year's hot spots will cost more than $200 per person. I'd like to see more energy put into more routine meals, and I argued in a recent column that I'm actually seeing that change. From bagels to Tex-Mex, Dallas restaurateurs and chefs are quietly reimagining and upgrading working-class food. Let's hope this trend continues. — Brian Reinhart
Yes, please give me more affordable food. We love things that are good and rich. We live for it. But you also need money for other things, like bills. (I know there are many reasons as to why the prices are high, but I'm just saying what everyone is thinking.) — Natalie Kemounkun
New Hmart on Royal Lane
We don't know when this will open or even if it will be in 2024. But I'm ready! —BR
Bagel, baby!
2023 was the year of the bagel in Dallas. Starship Bagel won “Best Bagel” at the 2023 NY Bagel Fest. Lubbies Bagels in East Dallas has very good reviews. Shug's has opened a new store in Lemon. There will soon be Abby's His Bagels in Greenville. Let's keep the bagel mania going! — N.K.
More street food
The city of Dallas has loosened strict regulations on food trucks and mobile food carts. It will take time to recover from these anti-vendor regulations, but we hope to see a boom in food trucks, trailers, and other pop-ups in 2024. Wouldn't it be great if a year from now his most popular restaurant was a trailer behind a brewery? —BR
Natural wine boom
The natural wine program has been quietly gaining ground in Dallas, with newcomers Via Toliozzi & Fondo, Petra and the Beast, and Mr. Charles on the list. (Read this great article for more information) Eater Dallas ) Natural wines are everywhere. And I hope they continue to grow. — N.K.
Good things about being a vegetarian
I don't mean veggie burgers, vegan chicken fried steak, vegan sushi, or any other food that replaces meat with plant-based protein. By that I mean a plate of food that is so interesting and enjoyable that you can eat it all without realizing there's no meat in it. They are common at Rye and are the mainstay of the vegan tasting menu at Maiden, and I just submitted my review for Via Triozzi after eating only two dishes that contained meat. Let's keep the ball rolling. —BR
opening of these restaurants
Here are our most anticipated 2024 restaurant openings, in alphabetical order.
bacari tab, a new pizza and jazz bar next door to Julian Barsotti's flagship restaurant Nonna. In fact, Bacari Tabu is having a soft opening on his Resy page at the time of this writing, so its “real” opening may have already been announced by the time this article is published. (I wrote this article before I left for Christmas.)
Cenzo's Pizza and Deli, located in a quiet corner of Winnetka Heights. Cenzo's opened on December 19th, but he didn't want people to forget about it.
lucky sonGood Friend Burger's New Haven-style pizza joint is coming to downtown Garland in January or February.
french roomDallas' most iconic dining room was supposed to reopen in time for the holiday season, but it will reportedly still be several seasons before the Adolphus Hotel finalizes plans for its newly reborn restaurant.
Jakval and Trades, two neighboring spots from the owners of Oddfellows and Liberator's Hall. The name is a disgusting dad joke, but the idea is cool. Jaquval will be a nanobrewery with a selection of beers and other beverages, and Trades will be a sandwich shop. Jakval opened in December with irregular opening hours (owner said) morning news Open “as long as you see the lights on,” both stores are expected to be fully open in January.
knife italian, a new spot at Las Colinas Resort by John Tesar, appears to be nearly completed and ready for service, according to Tesar's Instagram Stories. (Still, I wish the name wasn't so ridiculous. “Knife” in Italian is “cortello.” What was the problem?)
Just ask KeithUNCO Management's “affordable” steakhouse located in the Continental Gin Building in Deep Ellum.
nena postoleria, Diana Zamora's passion project bakery in East Dallas.she tells D It will be a community center and home to cooking classes, late night desserts and Café de Ora. She hopes to open in January.
le passage. The restaurant, created by owner Stéphane Causseau and chef-partner Bruno Davaillon, explores the French style made famous by French chefs like Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Asian chefs like Mitsunobu Nagae and Tatiana Refha. Explore the encounter between cuisine and Asian cuisine. Corso and Davaillon are considering candidates for executive chef positions, all of whom currently reside in Asia. Le PassSage (rhymes with massage, with a capital S because it's a French pun) he had planned to open in early 2024, but we're hearing there's a long delay. Maybe during the summer.
Radicia new Italian food concept by chef Tiffany Dery, is just a few doors down from her other award-winning restaurant, Roots Southern Table.
royal bastard, the mysterious new Nick Badovinas location in a former strip club across the street from Town Hearth. This was also on the list for 2023, but it is already at least a year late. All Mr. Badovinus has said so far is that his 12-table restaurant will feature raunchy humor and “unapologetically premium” prices. He added as he stopped by. D The podcast focuses on the bar and says it will be a bar that serves food rather than a restaurant that serves drinks.
Sanji, an upscale Indian restaurant in Irving. It was scheduled to open this fall, but it appears to have been postponed.
Seegers, an old-fashioned deli is opening in the Cedars District. Although the Cedars family is historically Jewish, Segar's owner Olivia Gente calls the deli “nonsectarian,” drawing inspiration from Jewish, Midwestern, and German examples alike. It's called. There's pastrami on rye, corned beef, kielbasa soup, and plenty of cabbage. Scheduled for February.
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Brian Reinhart
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Brian Reinhart became D Magazine's dining critic in 2022 after six years writing about restaurants for the magazine. dallas observer And that Dallas Morning News.
Natalie Kemounkun
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Natalie Kemounkoon joined D Magazine in 2022 as Online Dining Editor. She previously worked at Dallas Morning News.
