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    Drinking Diaries

    Vinyl is the hook at Deep Ellum's Off the Record, but craft beer is just as vital

    Jonathan Rienstra
    Mar 16, 2015 | 3:10 pm
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    Off the Record mixes craft beer and vinyl and Deep Ellum.
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    My mom likes to talk about how when I was 3 or 4, I asked her what the skinny books under the TV were, and why they couldn’t be opened, so she showed me how to work our record players.

    I listened to a lot of the Cats soundtrack, and in preparation for writing this column, I looked up the plot to that mind melt of a musical. “Mr. Mistoffelees” just shows that blow was way too cheap in 1980.

    Off the Record, Deep Ellum’s craft beer and vinyl one-stop shop, doesn’t carry Cats, so far as I could tell when I stopped by a few weeks ago. Unsurprisingly, you’re more likely to find the kind of albums that bearded, black jacket-wearing white guys (ahem) attach themselves to.

    Think Black Keys, The National, Dr. Dre, Willie Nelson and a bunch of bands that constantly seem on the verge of blowing up based on their ACL set last year, all resting in rows of skinny books, at the end of the room. In all, there are more than 2,000 records available for purchase, a selection that Lowest Greenville’s Good Records curates.

    It certainly scratches a particular itch, and it’s also a reminder that I’m not as unique as I sometimes imagine myself to be. I was not the first 20-year-old to think it was interesting to get high and listen to Willie Nelson’s old albums, no matter how much I wish that were the case.

    And as much as I might be inclined to push back at a craft-beer-and-vinyl shop in an attempt to maintain some sort of self-indulgent authenticity, to say that Off the Record is cynically pandering to a group that’s already catered to in nearly every corner of pop culture would just be because I’m secretly uncomfortable with the fact that I’m not cool at all. I am not the things I like.

    Fortunately, beer is a good way to cope. Off the Record keeps 24 taps of craft beers that bearded, black jacket-wearing white guys like. Dixon from Peticolas is dropping off fresh kegs while I’m there — a serendipitous encounter — both because he’s my friend and because I like Sit Down or I’ll Sit You Down right from the brewery.

    Some people will look at Off the Record and call it a Deep Ellum hipster bar. Maybe it is. I don’t know what hipster means anymore — I’ve been accused of being one, but I also like the things I like because I enjoy them, which might seem tautological, but sometimes it needs to be pointed out because my generation trades on irony.

    Off the Record trades on those skinny books, but the craft beer gives you the courage to find your own Cats.

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    Omakase News

    Reservations are open for new omakase restaurant at Statler Dallas

    Teresa Gubbins
    Aug 14, 2025 | 7:40 pm
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    Reservations are open for one of the buzziest new restaurants in Dallas: Called Sauvage, it'll open on August 20 at the Statler Dallas hotel downtown, at 1914 Commerce St. #100.

    Sauvage is the new concept from chefs Casey and Amy La Rue, who own La Rue Doughnuts, the artisan doughnut shop at Trinity Groves, and who previously owned Carte Blanche, the award-winning restaurant on Greenville Avenue which closed in 2024.

    Sauvage marks their return to fine dining and will follow a similar tasting menu approach that they maintained at Carte Blanche, but with a smaller footprint: just 12 seats, with two seatings per night, and the restaurant will be open only four nights a week, from Wednesday-Saturday. Reservations can be made on tock.

    They're calling it a "woodfire omakase." Every course will be done on the wood grill or smoker, with no gas and no fryer.

    "The menu will be centered on a wood-fire tasting menu, with 16 to 18 courses cooked on a wood fire and served right to you," Casey says.

    The menu is not yet online but they'll continue the focus on wild game they had at Carte Blanche — antelope, elk, venison — plus seafood, vegetable courses, and dessert.

    Each course will celebrate wood-fired flavors, whether it's Moroccan antelope sausage with pistachio and fermented harissa, or wild boar burnt ends with sorghum glaze.

    The convivial environment will put the diner in the center of the magic, watching as the sizzling meat and game are cut and cooked on the flame and plated — omakase-style.

    Amy will do desserts and breads which will occupy 25 percent of the menu. They'll also offer a beverage pairing, although it won't be restricted to wine.

    Pricing will be in line with what tasting and omakase places are charging: $245 for dinner, plus $125 for beverage pairing. The restaurant is located two doors to the left of the Statler hotel's front lobby. There is no access from inside the hotel.

    Carte Blanche was the first stand-alone restaurant to achieve Forbes Five-Star in Texas for two years in a row, in 2022 and again in 2023. It was also the only Dallas restaurant to earn the prestigious 5-diamond award from AAA.

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