Mother's Day Meals

The best restaurants in Dallas to treat Mom on Mother's Day 2014

Mother's Day is just around the corner, and although your finally being out of the house is probably the best present you have ever given your mom, she still needs to eat. So get those reservations in order and prove to the leading lady in your life that you have graduated past breakfast in bed with your siblings and moved on to toasting her fabulousness with a mimosa.

Canary by Gorji
The highlights: Celebrate Mother’s Day with dinner from 5-9 pm. The meal includes choice of salad (Caesar or spinach), entrée (pork chop with gnocchi or Arctic char and shrimp) and dessert (berry sorbet or chocolate liqueur cake).
Cost per person: $39
Reservations: 214-503-7080

Cook Hall
The highlights: Start the Mother’s Day celebration with a blood orange mimosa, sparkling hibiscus Bellini or Bloody Mary. Then move on to buttermilk pancakes, soft scrambled eggs with crab and tomato toast, or grilled salmon salad. Dessert selections include a rhubarb crisp or house-made cookie plate. Cook Hall is doing brunch Saturday and Sunday, from 11 am-3 pm.
Cost per person: $35
Reservations: 214-397-4111

Cool River Cafe
The highlights: Cool River is doing a three-course dinner with soup or salad; choice of roast beef tenderloin, grilled chicken portobello or hickory-smoked salmon; and banana rum cake with Nutella frosting or créme brûlée cheesecake for dessert.
Cost per person: $29.95
Reservations: 972-871-8881

Dallas Arboretum
The highlights: If scenery is what Mom loves most, the Dallas Arboretum is serving a Mother's Day brunch from 10:30 am-12:30 pm, with a cold buffet, hot carving station and assorted desserts. There are seatings available at Rosine Hall and on the loggia at the DeGolyer Estate.
Cost per person: $67 for adults, $25 for children ages 5-10, and free for children ages 4 and under
Reservations: 214-515-6511

Dallas Fish Market
The highlights: Make your selections from an à la carte menu featuring items such as shrimp cocktail, beet salad, pea soup, lobster Benedict, striped bass, ahi tuna BLT and lobster roll. Dessert options include mascarpone figs, chocolate bread pudding or profiteroles. This is going down from 11 am-3 pm.
Cost per person: A la carte
Reservations: 214-744-3474

Driftwood
The highlights: New executive chef Kyle McClelland is offering a Mother’s Day brunch from 11 am-3 pm. Dishes include house-made jelly doughnuts, eggs Benedict with crab or pork belly, and bacon or fennel sausage.
Cost per person: A la carte
Reservations: 214-942-2530

Fearing's
The highlights: Fearing's is serving a special three-course brunch from 11 am-3 pm. Main course selections include lobster omelet and filet mignon with west Texas mop sauce, lamb chops with spring vegetable sauté, and halibut with andouille sausage. Dessert includes almond blueberry tart, coconut cupcake, and dark chocolate cake and milk chocolate ice cream cake with mallow fluff.
Cost per person: $95 for adults and $30 for children 12 and under
Reservations: 214-922-4848

Five Sixty
The highlights: Five Sixty offers an array of Asian-inspired breakfast and lunch dishes served with a spectacular view of the Dallas skyline. The assortment includes pork belly pot stickers, Thai shrimp cocktail, sushi and nigiri, lapsong fried rice, lo mein, Shanghai fried noodles, lemon pepper pork stir fry, rendang short ribs, made-to-order eggs, and assorted mini desserts.
Cost per person: $55 for adults and $30 for children
Reservations: 214-741-5560

The Grape
The highlights: The Grape celebrates Mom with a brunch from 10:30 am-2 pm. There are a few specials in addition the regular à la carte menu, as well as items for kids.
Cost per person: A la carte
Reservations: 214-828-1981

Highland Park Cafeteria
The highlights: From 10:45 am-8 pm, Highland Park Cafeteria offers special menu items such as raspberry roast pork tenderloin, salmon, coconut cake, rhubarb pie and lemon meringue pie. Shirley Robinson, who specializes in show tunes, will be on the piano along with Jerry Stephens, who can play anything and especially loves requests.
Cost per person: $11.99
Reservations: 214-324-5000

Hibashi Teppan Grill & Sushi Bar
The highlights: Hibashi is serving a special fixed-price menu with three courses. Dishes include Hibashi's famous garden salad with ginger dressing; house miso or onion soup; rolls such as Mom's Roll with tuna, super white tuna and yellowtail; sashimi medley with salmon, tuna, superwhite tuna and yellowtail; and a yakitori feast with beef tenderloin, Scottish salmon, scallops, tempura sweet potato, jalapeno and shrimp.
Cost per person: $50
Reservations: 972-620-3474

Hotel St. Germain
The highlights: Celebrate Mother’s Day from 11 am-2 pm with a New Orleans-style brunch. Dine while overlooking the garden courtyard.
Cost per person: $55
Reservations: 214-871-2516

InterContinental Dallas
The highlights: Enjoy a full buffet from 10:30 am-2 pm, with breakfast, seafood and hot carving stations; made-to-order pastas, crepes and omelets; and desserts.
Cost per person: $72 for adults, $27 for children ages 6-12, and free for kids 5 and under
Reservations: 972-386-6000

Lavendou Bistro
The highlights: From 11 am-3 pm, Lavendou Bistro serves a three-course, fixed-price French brunch with dishes such as vichyssoise, tomato-and-mozzarella salad, frisee salad, fruit de mer, poached eggs on brioche with smoked salmon and spinach topped with hollandaise, fillet of sole with crab and champagne cream sauce, steak bordelaise with gratin Dauphinois and French green beans, and chicken breast with linguini. For dessert, indulge in tiramisu, chocolate mousse cake, white chocolate cheesecake or raspberry tart.
Cost per person: $38.95
Reservations: 972-248-1911

Lazaranda
The highlights: Saturday and Sunday brunch (11 am-3 pm) features four entrée specials as well as Mexican vanilla crème brûlée over mangos for dessert. Selections include shrimp Tulum with cream cheese wrapped in bacon with mashed potatoes, rib-eye with shrimp and avocado sauce over poblano rice, filet wrapped in bacon over pasilla pepper mashed potatoes, or octopus with pinto and black beans.
Cost per person: $24.95
Reservations: 972-866-8900

Max’s Wine Dive
The highlights: Max’s Wine Dive Dallas serves its traditional brunch menu from 10 am-3 pm, plus retail wine specials throughout Mother’s Day weekend. Guests who dine with Mom at the restaurant have the option to purchase a bottle while dining; in return they get 50 percent off the same bottle to go.
Cost per person: A la carte
Reservations: 214-559-3483

Nasher Sculpture Center
The highlights: Enjoy a gourmet buffet Wolfgang Puck-style from 10 am-1 pm. Dishes include local farm egg Benedict with first-of-season asparagus on house brioche, soft scrambled farm eggs with local goat cheese, house-smoked and pecan-cured bacon, hand-cranked apple chicken sausage, Virginia honey ham with spiced heirloom carrots and confit of new potato, vanilla bean and polenta pancakes with citrus butter, individual strawberry and rhubarb cobblers.
Cost per person: $50 for members, $60 for non-members, children under 12 half price, and children 3 and under free
Reservations: 214-242-5144

Olenjack’s Grille
The highlights: Olenjack's Grille is having a brunch buffet from 10 am-3 pm, with more than 30 options. Think tequila and lime glazed shrimp with green onion rice, cucumber and onion salad, cinnamon raisin bread pudding with white chocolate, mini raspberry tiramisus, and mimosas and Bloody Marys.
Cost per person: $28 for adults and $14 for children
Reservations: 817-226-2600

Ocean Prime
The highlights: Chef Eugenio Reyes whips up a special brunch menu from 11 am-3 pm. Options include blood orange mimosa, spinach quiche, arugula salad, blueberry French toast, short rib with poached eggs, crab and eggs with toasted English muffin, crab cakes, and blackened salmon salad. The dinner menu is available all day.
Cost per person: A la carte
Reservations: 214-965-0440

Peak & Elm
The highlights: Executive chef Jesse Moreno Sr. offers a three-course brunch menu with complimentary mimosas. Begin with a mixed green salad with Texas peaches, mixed nuts and queso fresco in a blackberry balsamic vinaigrette. Then choose an entree: quiche with house-made Mexican chorizo or quiché primavera with Mexican calabacitas and mushrooms. For dessert there are peach empanadas with local honey. Three seating times: 10 am, noon and 2 pm, with limited availability.
Cost per person: $15
Reservations: 214-826-7617

Second Floor Bistro
The highlights: From 11 am-2 pm, treat Mom to a buffet with pork belly eggs Benedict, prime rib carving station, duck confit hash, omelets and more.
Cost per person: $58 for adults, $26 for children ages 6-12, and free for children 5 and under
Reservations: 972-450-2978

Silver Fox Steakhouse
The highlights: Three-course meal from 11 am-5 pm includes a choice of house salad, wedge salad or asparagus soup; choice of tenderloin, salmon or chicken paillard; and choice of pecan cake, Mandarin orange cake or chocolate lovers dessert.
Cost per person: $46.95 for adults and $16.95 for children under 12
Reservations: 972-423-8121

III Forks
The highlights: III Forks is doing a special four-course Mother’s Day meal from 11 am-8 pm. Dishes include asparagus soup; III Forks salad with green apple, blue cheese, toasted pecans and field greens; beef tenderloin; red snapper on almond basil pearl couscous; and red pepper chicken with fingerling potatoes. For dessert, there is mandarin orange cake, strawberry shortcake, flourless chocolate cake or berry parfait.
Cost per person: $46.95 for adults and $16.95 for children under 12
Reservations: 972- 267-1776

Mom deserves mimosas on Mother's Day.

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Mom deserves mimosas on Mother's Day.

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Punk News

Tasting menu restaurant Punk Noir to open in Dallas' Design District

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Punk Noir

A new restaurant doing a tasting menu only is coming to Dallas' Design District: Called Punk Noir, it'll open at 139 Turtle Creek Blvd, #130, Dallas, TX 75207 with a 20-course tasting menu and an immersive, multi-room design — smashing the conventions of fine dining, as a press release so articulately states.

It's set to debut Tuesday, June 2, in time to welcome World Cup visitors.

Led by James Beard Award-winning chef RJ Cooper, the restaurant will combine "world-class cuisine, irreverent artistry, and edgy elegance."

Punk Noir A funky, punky cocktail.Photo by Samantha Marie Photography

Owners are Dallas natives John McKeel and his sons Cole and Clay McKeel, who conceived the project as a passion project.

“Punk Noir is a rebellion against the ordinary,” Cole McKeel says in a statement. “What initially inspired us to open this concept were our personal experiences traveling across the USA, Europe, and Japan. We’ve eaten at many Michelin-starred restaurants, even some ranked among the Top 50 in the world. So many of them had amazing food, but the experience often felt flat—stiff, quiet, and even intimidating. We wanted to create something different: food that is just as refined and world-class, but an experience that is unforgettable, irreverent, and full of energy."

Punk Noir — which is no relation to Punk Royale, a similar-sounding European concept founded in Stockholm in 2015 that has since opened spinoffs in Copenhagen and Oslo — will be in a 9,500-square-foot warehouse where it will host two to three seatings per night, with only 26 seats per seating.

The space will incorporate:

a dramatic communal dining room with projection-mapped visuals and graffiti art led by a “Mistress of Ceremonies”
an open kitchen where Cooper presents select courses to an intimate neon-lit dining room
the Noir Lounge, which will seat 46 guests and offer cocktails alongside “mini tasting” menus for those not partaking in the full experience

A VIP car service option will also be available, chauffeuring guests directly to the restaurant in a black SUV and delivering them up a private ramp and into the restaurant where they will be escorted to the first room to begin the immersive dining experience.

One of the 20 courses at Punk Noir.Photo by Amy Zawacki

The food
The experience will consist of a 20-course tasting menu that weaves together global influences, cutting-edge gastronomy, and Cooper's personal inspirations. The release says that diners can expect courses that are "playful and provocative — some just a single bite, others layered with theatricality and multi-sensory touches."

From the release:

"The menu will change often but the experience begins with an 'agrarian prologue,' exploring the quiet intimacy of soil, root, and garden before moving toward the pull of the sea. Early courses such as camote morado with huitlacoche and blue crab with seaweed and calamansi establish a dialogue between land and ocean.

"As the progression unfolds, the menu builds tension through fire and transformation - featuring dishes like scallop with turmeric and Kaluga caviar, turbot with mussel and plankton, and cod cheek with dashi. Later sample courses explore indulgence through restraint, with compositions including Peking duck, Australian wagyu, and fermented endive - each emphasizing controlled richness and depth.

"The experience concludes with unexpected, thought-provoking pairings, for example, onion with Amur caviar, white chocolate with kombu, and sunchoke with ash - designed to challenge and resolve the palate in equal measure."

Ingredients will feature seasonal highlights from Italy, Japan, Central America, and closer to home. Each course will be paired with wines, cocktails, and zero-proof beverages.

The 20-course tasting menu is $295 per person.

The chef
RJ Cooper won a James Beard Award for Best Chef Mid-Atlantic in 2007. His prior concepts include Rogue 24, serving a 24-course tasting menu, in Washington, D.C.; Gypsy Soul, a Southern bistro; and Saint Stephen and Acqua in Nashville. He previously worked at Vidalia in D.C. for seven years and has earned national press.

Punk Noir Artwork by Michael Shellis in the Noir Lounge.Photo by Samantha Marie Photography

The bar manager
The cocktail tasting program, led by acclaimed bar manager Shane Scully, is "a multi-course exploration of form, flavor, and restraint - reimagining signature cocktails through a lower-ABV lens without sacrificing depth or impact," the release says. The wine program will focus on wines "with a clear sense of place and straightforward appeal, drawing from classic and emerging regions including Champagne, Burgundy, and the Loire Valley in France, as well as Napa Valley and Sonoma in California, alongside selections from Italy and Spain," they say.

The owner
John McKeel shares his and his sons' vision for Punk Noir: “It is irreverent fine dining. The lounge has punk graffiti wall art and unrestrained departure from the familiar. We are here to challenge the norms of traditional fine dining, turn the Dallas dining scene on its head. We are disruptors. We are here to challenge our guests' conventions of what elevated dining should be. We provide an experience that is surprising, provocative, entertaining, and delicious."

Reservations can now be booked at https://www.exploretock.com/punk-noir/.

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This story originally was published on September 25, 2025 and has been updated with opening date, new menu and personnel details.