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Rooftop bar with fried chicken and snow cones hangs on Dallas' Greenville Ave

Fried chicken and snow cones make a well rounded meal.

Greenville Avenue has a new rooftop bar with fried chicken, foosball tables, and boozy snow cones.

Called Eastside Social, it's located at 1928 Greenville Ave., which used to be home to the restaurant Nora.

This is the third concept from Laurel Concepts, a California-based company whose Dallas debut was in 2018, when they opened Laurel Tavern. In spring 2019, they opened Wah Wah Room, a retro-styled bar. All three are located along the same block. Laurel Concepts really loves the 1900 block of Greenville Avenue.

According to a spokesperson, Eastside will open in stages. The rooftop bar, which opened on July 21, came first. They'll open a restaurant and arcade game room downstairs on the ground level later this summer.

It's a casual, no-frills hangout with retro lawn chairs and gliders surrounding a fireplace that's open on all four sides. A wooden arbor spans the rooftop, and there's a colorful mural of a beer can in the restroom.

Fried chicken is their specialty. Wings come Louisiana-style, buffalo, or Nashville hot. Sandwich options, which they call "sandos," are served on a potato roll and include Nashville hot, ranch, or cold fried chicken.

There are also sides including fried pickles, seasoned crinkle-cut fries, and coleslaw. Desserts are kitschy and include Hostess Twinkies and Ding Dongs.

The bar includes distinctive frozen drinks, including frozen margaritas and a drink called The King Bee, with gin, honey, and lemon.

Boozy snow cones come in three flavors: tiger’s blood with Cimarron tequila, blue raspberry with Citron vodka, and piña colada with Plantation rum.

Eastside Social is big on beers in cans in two sizes, 12- and 16-ounce, plus five beers on tap: Peticolas Golden Opportunity, Community Lager, Dallas Blonde, Martin House Friday IPA, and St. Arnold's first-ever cider.

The rooftop has a daily happy hour with $3 draft beer, $6 draft cocktails and wine, and a $7 chicken sandwich.

They're also doing a unique temperature-driven special in which you get $1 off any beverage when it is over 99 degrees outside.

Eastside Social is starting out slow, with limited hours: 5 pm to midnight Thursday and Friday, and noon to midnight Saturday and Sunday.

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Attention, shoppers

H-E-B's newest Dallas-Fort Worth store opens in booming Murphy

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The newest H-E-B store in Dallas-Fort Worth is now open in Murphy. Local officials and H-E-B leaders cut the ribbon on the supermarket, at FM 544 and McCreary Road, on Wednesday, July 22.

According to store personnel, 1,100 shoppers were in line when the doors opened at 6 am. Earlybirds get the warmest butter tortillas.

Opening day festivities include free coffee and breakfast items for early shoppers, a performance by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders until 10 am, food samples throughout the store, opportunities to win prizes for the first four weeks of shopping, and exclusive offers such as $5 off a shopping basket when $25 or more in purchases are made.

More special offers, samples, and events - such as seafood boils - will happen in coming days, they say.

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Having broken ground in 2024, the Murphy store will no doubt be a hot spot in fast-growing Collin County and will serve not only Murphy but surrounding communities of Wylie, Sachse, and Parker.

It's the latest in the San Antonio-based grocer's expansion across Dallas-Fort Worth and follows the opening of the H-E-B Irving store on June 17.

The Murphy store includes a full-service H-E-B Pharmacy with a drive-thru, True Texas BBQ restaurant, and H-E-B Curbside and Home Delivery, which will allow customers to place orders online for pickup at the store or delivery to the home.

Lucky for Murphy drivers, the location also includes a fuel station with car wash.

The store carries a fresh assortment of exclusive premium beef, sustainable seafood, a diverse selection of South Asian foods, heat-and-eat chef-prepared meals, and more.

Hours are 6 am-11 pm daily.

H-E-B has been in rapid expansion mode across DFW in recent years; many stores, including Dallas, Denton, and Carrollton, are in the works.

The regional supermarket chain is consistently rated among America's best grocers by industry and consumer reports.

With $49.6 billion in annual revenue, the H-E-B grocery chain appears at No. 11 on Forbes' inaugural list of America’s 100 largest family businesses.

Founded in 1905, H-E-B operates more than 450 grocery stores in the U.S. and Mexico. The company says its annual sales exceed $50 billion. The company employs over 175,000 Partners in Texas and Mexico, and serves millions of customers in more than 300 communities.

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