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Where to eat in Dallas right now: Best new restaurants for brunch

Brunch is the word.

Photo courtesy of North Italia

One of the eternal pursuits in the Dallas restaurant world is brunch. Whether Saturday, Sunday, or both, brunch has become one of the most popular meals of the week.

It's about eating, and so much more. It's about capping off the week with a celebratory meal, while simultaneously preparing oneself for the week ahead. It's an opportunity to multi-task: to eat and socialize at the same time.

It's about mimosas.

With tried-and-true staples like Breadwinners and Blue Mesa Grill, Dallas has never lacked for brunch. Everyone has their favorite. But if you're feeling restless, we've rounded up 8 new brunches worth checking out.

Alamo Club
Greenville Avenue restaurant-bar recently launched a hearty brunch with French toast; skillet with potatoes, pastrami, bell pepper, onion, and spicy gravy; bacon cheddar burger with arugula, tomato, onion, and aioli; omelet with bacon, cheddar, tomato, and green onion; tacos with potato, egg, cheese, and choice of bacon, pastrami, or chorizo. Salads include wedge and Caesar with chicken, corn, avocado, and jalapeño Caesar dressing. Beverages include blood orange mimosa carafe, bloody Mary, screwdriver, margarita, and the patio banger with whiskey, lemon, cardamom, and ginger beer. Saturday-Sunday 11 am to 4 pm.

Doc B's Restaurant + Bar
Chicago-based chain opened this location in Uptown Dallas in 2018 and its brunch still remains somewhat under the radar, meaning you can get a table, which is its own reward. They're super into their candied bacon, which is baked with turbinado sugar, cayenne pepper, and golden dry mustard, but don't hold that against them. They also have hot chicken & waffles, and a variety of pancakes including an inelegant cinnamon-swirl that's halfway between pancake and cinnamon roll. Saturday-Sunday 11 am to 2 pm.

Elm Street Cask & Kitchen
Bourbon bar and grill in downtown Dallas starts its weekend brunch early at 7 am. Dishes include crab cake eggs benny, short rib egg sandwich, the hangover burger — topped with chorizo, bacon, and a fried egg — farmers market frittata, chicken & waffle, avocado toast, almond-ricotta pancakes, and sticky buns. Saturday-Sunday 7 am to 3 pm.

Hudson House
Recently introduced brunch at this upscale neighborhood chain includes the Hudson Tower, a three-tiered tower with bagels and lox, gravlax, cold smoked lox, smoked whitefish, smoked trout, or lobster. Velvet Chicken & Waffles have a red velvet Belgian waffle and double fried chicken. Pastrami & eggs has Wagyu pastrami and whole egg frittata. Cocktails include a bloody Mary with bleu cheese-stuffed olives, shrimp cocktail, and shucked oyster; and "Mom's cure" with vodka, orange juice, and ginger beer.

North Italia
The recent opening of a second location at The Union, North Italia's brunch becomes an option for the Uptown Dallas crowd. Menu highlights include nonna casserole, with Italian sausage, torn ciabatta, marinara sauce, and eggs; an egg sandwich with prosciutto cotto, bacon, and fontina cheese on brioche bread; and a veggie scramble with eggs, spinach, mushroom, asparagus, and zucchini. Saturday-Sunday 10 am to 4 pm.

Scout
Eatery located in the Statler Dallas hotel has a newish weekend brunch with eggs and omelets, chicken & waffles, a biscuit sandwich, a carving station, a taco bar, salad station with cheese, fruit, yogurt and granola options, bananas Foster station, and a kid's station. It's $25, or $10 for 12 and under. Build-your-own bloody Mary and mimosa bars are an additional $8.

Snooze an A.M. Eatery
Every day is brunch all day at this Denver-based breakfast chain, which recently opened a location at 3211 Oak Lawn Ave., near the intersection of Cedar Springs Road. The menu has many pancakes including their signature pineapple upside-down pancakes. They're big into Benedicts with six options. Order a Benedict duo or a flight of three pancakes in different flavors. They're also known for "morning cocktails" including cocktails made with coffee, and Bloody Marys, such as the one with bacon-infused Cyrus Noble Bourbon and house bloody mix.

Two Mules Cantina
Restaurant and bar located at Texican Court hotel in Irving's Las Colinas Urban Center follows Dallas' grand tradition of Southwestern cuisine, with dishes such as El Paso eggs benedict, chilaquiles, breakfast tacos, strawberry flapjacks, smoked barbacoa mini tostadas, chicken & waffles, and corned beef hash. A lox salad is clever, with kale and spinach, smoked salmon, fried capers, and bagel croutons, in a cilantro-dill cream cheese dressing. Sunday 10 am to 3 pm.

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Pizza News

Yonx Pizza seduces north Dallas suburbs with New York-style pies

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Yonx Pizza, by the slice.

A pizzeria with a dedicated following has debuted in Melissa: Yonx Pizza Bar & Co., an indie spot that does New York-style pizzas as well as pizza by the slice, has opened a location at 1521 McKinney St. #700 — an address that had pizza history as it was home for nearly a decade to a Palio's Pizza, which closed in 2025.

Yonx is from Robert Hede, a restaurant veteran who was previously involved with the Village Burger Bar chain, where he was a partner. He switched from burgers to pizza in 2022 when he connected with NY Pizza and Pints, a small local pizzeria chain, opening a location in Wylie at 1125 FM 544 #800. After two years, he broke off from the chain to found Yonx at the same address.

Yonx does the kind of New York-style thin-crust pizza that Dallas-Fort Worth loves, in a standard 14-inch, as well as a massive 24-inch "Kong" size. They also do slices, which can be ordered as a lunch with a Caesar salad for $9.99.

Varieties include familiar favorites like pepperoni, as well as slightly gourmet options with New York-inspired names such as:

Balsamic on Bleeker St., with garlic sauce, mushrooms, shaved ribeye, mozzarella cheese, arugula, and balsamic drizzle
Bronx Bomb, with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, meatballs, mushrooms, and ricotta cheese
Brooklyn, basically a meat-lovers with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, sliced ham, chopped meatball, beef, & pepperoni
Greenwich Garden, a vegetarian with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, red & green bell peppers, white onions, mushrooms, spinach, & black olives

Prices range from $16 for a 14-inch cheese pizza to $46 for a NY Giant Supreme Soho with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, pepperoni, sausage, beef, red & green bell peppers, white onions, sliced mushrooms, & black olives.

Yonx Pizza soup in a bread bowl.Photo courtesy of Yonx

There are also sandwiches on house-made toasted focaccia such as the Italian tower with melted provolone cheese, sliced ham, salami, lettuce, red onion, pepperoncinis, & sundried tomato aioli.

Appetizers include comforting soups served in a bread bowl including tomato basil and jalapeno cream soup with charred jalapenos. Plus wings, garlic knots, and "Brooklyn Ballers" — their signature meatballs in marinara, made in-house. topped with whipped ricotta and Parmesan, served with pesto and focaccia ends.

A full bar features frozen margaritas and frozen mojitos made with agave gold tequila. The best day to order those is "Frozen Fridays" from 11 am-10:30 pm when the blueberry mojitos are $6 and the margaritas are $5.

The Melissa location opened in January, with the same menu as the Wylie original, and has been met with an unprecedented wave of positive reviews on Facebook: one comment after another raving over how great the pizza is, and what a godsend it is — positive reviews that began to stack up even before the place had officially opened, the likes of which have been rarely seen.

This location boasts almost double the size of the original in Wylie, with a covered patio where they'll host live music on the weekends outside.

Hede, who has been hands-on at the Melissa location since it opened, says he's all-in on these northernmost suburbs of Dallas.

"I like this area — I feel like all the growth is heading out in this direction, there's just a lot of activity up here," he says.

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