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Where to drink in Dallas right now: 5 cool new cocktails for January

This cocktail says, Come and drink me right now.

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If you're a fan of fruit juices and other fresh items in your cocktails, times are good for you right now in Dallas. There are new drink menus being unveiled all over the place, incorporating juice of the blood orange, grapefruit, lemon, and lime.

In this edition of Where to Drink, we list five establishments who've just introduced new cocktails.

Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House
High-roller steakhouse gets on board with the mixology trend with a new set of cocktails being served at all DFW locations. The Elixir is an epic blend of Illegal mezcal, Yellow Chartreuse, lime, and Reàl Pineapple, a pineapple-infused syrup. They also join the blood orange train with a blood orange Manhattan made with Redemption Rye, Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth, Solerno Blood Orange, and Angostura.

Fearing's
The Ritz-Carlton restaurant's popular Rattlesnake Bar has just unveiled a tantalizing cocktail menu devised by chef Dean Fearing, his beverage artisans, and several premier spirits brands. The drinks all have a backstory or theme, but the show-stopper is the Flaming Tamarindo, presented literally on fire as it is delivered to the table. The flavor is like a mango margarita, garnished with a tajin rim, with the added element of flames bursting from an ignited key lime placed in the drink when it is served.

Midnight Rambler
Co-creator Chad Solomon's new winter menu has about a dozen drinks with all kinds of provenance and infusions and intensity, including a drink called Purple Snowflakes. Named for the 1964 Marvin Gaye/Motown Records holiday season song of the same name, it has mulled wine, Jamaican rum, port, lemon, and Demerara, combining to make a spicy seasonal punch. Mulled wine spices include orange peel, lemon peel, green cardamom, star anise, bourbon vanilla bean, clove, and cassia bark. They serve the drink over pellet ice, cobbler style.

Perry's Steakhouse & Grille
Sommelier Susi Zivanovic has three new cocktails including a Rosé Collins, combining Botanist Gin with rosé wine and fresh lemon juice, paired with Scallops; and a Jameson mocha old fashioned, featuring Jameson Caskmates Irish Whiskey with house-made coffee syrup and mole bitters. They recommend pairing it with their Polish sausage.

Thirsty Lion Gastropub
New restaurant-bar in Irving has fashioned a set of new drinks so alluring, they demand a visit. One has El Jimador tequila with agave nectar and a bouquet of fresh juices: grapefruit, orange, lemon, and lime, all for a mere $8.95. Their signature margarita has blood orange puree, and they're doing a Greyhound with fresh pressed grapefruit juice, Deep Eddy ruby red vodka, and Fee Brothers' grapefuit bitters. Go. Drink.

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Supermarket news

H-E-B to open 2 new stores in Garland, including Joe V's Smart Shop

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Texas grocery chain H-E-B is expanding into the Dallas suburb of Garland, with not one but two stores in the works.

A February 24 news release breaks down the double projects:

Joe V's Smart Shop
"First, the company will revitalize a vacant shopping center located on the northeast corner of Centerville Road and LBJ Freeway," the release says. "The approximately seven-acre site will soon be home to North Texas’ fourth Joe V’s Smart Shop, an innovative price format that focuses on offering fresh, high-quality products at the lowest prices in the marketplace."

Joe V’s Smart Shop is an H-E-B spinoff that operates 14 stores in North Texas and Houston. The first one in DFW opened in Dallas in June 2024 at 4101 W. Wheatland Rd. A second opened in far east Dallas in March 2025. The third opened on Airport Freeway in Irving in November 2025.

Products include fresh produce, organics selections, in-store cut meats, in-store made tortillas, breads, and sushi made daily.

"Construction is expected to begin in the coming months," the release says.

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"The second project involves H-E-B’s intent to develop an H-E-B store on a 21-acre site located between Crist Road and Firewheel Parkway off President George Bush Turnpike," the release says. "The purchase of that property is not yet final."

The Garland location will join H-E-B stores that have opened in Forney, Plano, Frisco, Allen, McKinney, Melissa, Prosper, and Rockwall, plus two in Tarrant County: Fort Worth/Alliance, and Mansfield. Stores in Irving, Denton, Dallas, Carrollton, and the Mid-Cities are in the works.

Although details of the Garland store have not been revealed, if it's like other H-E-B stores, it could include a full-service H-E-B Pharmacy with drive-thru, Curbside and Home Delivery service, Wellness Primary Care clinic, and a True Texas BBQ restaurant with drive-thru.

San Antonio-based H-E-B has been in Dallas since 2001 when it opened its first high-end chain Central Market, which now has six locations in Dallas, Plano, Southlake, and Fort Worth. The regional supermarket chain is consistently rated among America's best grocers by industry and consumer reports.

Additional details on the Garland projects will be shared as they develop, the company says.

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Teresa Gubbins contributed to this story.

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