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Sheraton Dallas downtown hotel unveils 4 restaurants and a coffee bar

The Sheraton is the largest hotel in downtown Dallas.

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The Sheraton Dallas Hotel in downtown Dallas has unveiled five new food and beverage concepts as part of its ongoing multimillion-dollar renovation.

Part of Marriott International, the Sheraton is the largest hotel in downtown Dallas and has been undergoing an extensive renovation of all public areas, guest rooms, and meeting and convention space.

The Sheraton Dallas has been at the forefront of Marriott's move to transform the Sheraton Hotels & Resorts brand, with a design strategy that emphasizes community, collaboration, and experiences.

In December, they appointed a chef to oversee their culinary program: Zeb Hartline, who most recently served in a similar capacity over multiple restaurants at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine.

The five new eateries offer a taste for every palate. Three have already opened; the additional two will open by early February.

Open Palette
Open Palette isn’t just about eating, it's also about painting. Just kidding, but palette is a painter word and palate is a food word and enough people already confuse it as it is. Sheraton Dallas, you are muddying the literacy waters here. The cuisine is modern American, with bold, surprising spins. The hotel hopes it will attract locals as well as guests. It's open already, serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, from 6 am-11 pm.

Moka Pot
This coffee lounge serves Italian-style coffees, which can be consumed to go or on-site in an airy, modern space. They're open already, for the morning coffee hours from 6 am-noon.

Draft Sports Bar and Lounge
The formerly Draft Media Sports Bar has reopened as a new concept with a fresh, modern design, and a new menu featuring only fresh ingredients. So much fresh for a sports bar. There are 12 local beers on tap, craft cocktails, outstanding eats, and 25 televisions, perfect for catching games. It's open daily with late-night hours, from 11 am-1 am.

The Parlor
Set to open in early February, this is an intimate cocktail lounge serving one-of-a-kind craft cocktails and small bites. The bar will have a cute little mascot called Chap, in case you're there alone. Yes, you'll be talking to an inanimate object but for some people, that's better than nothing. The Parlor will be open daily from 5 pm-midnight.

Open Market
Opening in early February, Open Market is a to-go type market with sandwiches, wraps, salads, and other items made from scratch, aimed at both guests and locals, who are in a hurry. Open Market will be open daily from 6 am-11 pm.

"We are proud to introduce these new concepts to our loyal guests and locals,” said Ryan Littman, Director of Food and Beverage for Sheraton Dallas in a statement. "We expect to impress our customers with flavorful, thoughtful menus at each venue, and elevate their experience with modern, unique designs."

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Wings News

New chicken wing joint sells 'em by the pound in Dallas' Deep Ellum

Wings By the Pound

A no-nonsense wing spot has debuted in Dallas' Deep Ellum: Called Wings By the Pound, it sells exactly that, at a shop at 2707 Main St., in the former home of the Slutty Vegan burger joint, which closed in 2024.

Wings by the Pound states proudly that it "isn't a combo joint" but is instead "a counter built on one idea — call your weight, watch it hit the scale, and take it off the scale." Then presumably you take it home, you eat it, end of story.

It presents itself as an alternative to typical wing spots which sell wings by the number. Numbers are complicated.

"We sell you weight. Pick wings or tenders, call your poundage from a half-pound to four, and we weigh it up in front of you," they say.

From there it's the standard wing-joint set of choices: wings or tenders, level of heat, sauces, and sides. "No combos, no guessing," they brag, although is there a lot of guessing with wings?

Here's some very specific numbers:

One pound of wings, which they approximate at 12 pieces, is $15.05. Two pounds, or 24 pieces, is $27.11.
One pound of tenders, which they approximate at 8 pieces, is $17.02. Two pounds, or 16 pieces, is $25.06.

They also sell french fries — crinkle cut — in choice of plain, cheese sauce, or "pound sauce" for $8 to $15. Pound sauce is their version of the prototypical secret sauce, which generally boils down to Russian-ish dressing, i.e., mayonnaise and ketchup with various add-ins, spicy and otherwise; the version at Wings By the Pound incorporates hot sauce.

There are wet sauces, including Thai, chipotle, hot honey, and garlic Parm; dry rubs, including suya (peanut) and jalapeño-lemon; and five dips: cheese sauce, ranch, bleu cheese, honey mustard, and pound sauce.

Some might recall that there was a Wings By the Pound concept that first debuted in 2020 at Trinity Groves, the restaurant incubator in West Dallas, but that closed in 2022.

This Wings By the Pound is a new concept from ArkDal Hospitality Group, headed by Cary Thompson, Royce Colley, and Mo Wells, which also operates Velour Restaurant in Victory Park.

The location in Deep Ellum has no seating on premise and functions as a take-out spot only. A spokesperson said that the location opened in mid-June.

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