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    Green Everywhere

    Where to eat in Dallas right now: 10 restaurants with best salads

    Teresa Gubbins
    Aug 17, 2017 | 5:26 pm
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    This being summer, and summer being the time when you theoretically eat fresher and lighter, one's thoughts turn to salads. At least, this one's thoughts do. If you search on the worldwide web for Best Salads in Dallas, you get this list and that, and they all seem to have one thing in common: They come topped with meat. How in the world when you think of a salad do you end up with meat?

    Forget the other best salad lists. This is your list of the 10 best real salads in DFW:

    Al Biernat's, hearts of palm
    Steakhouses have some of the best salads around, and Al Biernat's is no exception. They have nine salad options including the popular favorite, the Al's Salad, with hearts of palm, avocado, shrimp, and crab. It's a stunner of a salad, but for our purposes, which is a salad not heaped with meat, go for the junior version: the hearts of palm salad, with mixed greens, bell pepper, and crunchy hazelnuts tossed in a hazelnut vinaigrette. Soon you'll be able to order it not only at the original location on Oak Lawn Avenue but also the second branch opening in North Dallas.

    Blatt Beer + Table, kale-Caesar
    Everyone has a kale salad, making it hard to stand out. But the kale-Caesar at this elevated gastropub at Preston Hollow Village stands out. It has Boston lettuce, baby kale, shaved fennel, Grana Padano cheese, and brioche-herb croutons, but what really gives it the pop is the fresh citrus twist in its citrus-Caesar dressing.

    Knife Dallas, Teresa salad
    For starters, this salad at John Tesar's edgy steakhouse at the Highland Dallas hotel has a really cool name. But that's not what makes this salad so special. It's a bold, ballsy heap of watercress, tempered by bits of Belgian endive, candied walnut, and goat cheese — simple but sophisticated, and the best salad in Dallas.

    La Ventana, ensalada fresca
    Salads are not what you would expect at this upscale taqueria chain and El Fenix sibling, but its ensalada fresca would prove you wrong. It has mixed greens, iceberg lettuce, tomato, candied peanuts, avocado, fresco cheese, with a charred cilantro vinaigrette, with the option to add shredded pork, brisket, or their other meats. But who needs it.

    North Italia, Tuscan kale salad
    New Italian eatery at Legacy West is part of the Fox Restaurant Concepts family, along with salad-serving restaurants such as True Food Kitchen and Flower Child. But it beats its siblings with its Tuscan kale salad, with an assortment of flavorful embellishments that makes you forget there's kale: crispy pancetta, charred grape, apple, and pistachio in a Parmesan vinaigrette.

    Pie Tap Pizza Workshop, Sweet salad
    Nascient Dallas pizza chain with two branches on Henderson Avenue and in the Design District has notably great pizza, but there's more to life and dinner than pizza. There's the sweet salad with kale, radicchio, apple, radish, pearled barley, candied pecans, and goat cheese, tossed in a pomegranate vinaigrette.

    Rise No. 1, Rise No. 1 salad
    While Rise specializes in souffles, it has one great salad that is as dear and delicate as everything else at this darling Dallas chain. It consists of baby greens, with blue cheese, roasted pecans, and Granny Smith apples, tossed in a pecan vinaigrette. Others do salads with these ingredients, but Rise just does them right.

    Snappy Salads, Bam-Bam salad
    The Bam-Bam used to be a special but recently got bumped up to regular menu status. No wonder, with its combination of baby spinach, baby arugula, lettuce mix, red cabbage, quinoa, red onion, dried cherries, and chopped almonds, in a housemade Sweet Parsley dressing. It officially comes with pulled chicken, if you must. Check it out at their new location downtown.

    T Room, Green Goddess salad
    The T Room is one of the city's top 5 ladies-who-lunch spots and you know that means salad. (Sorry to resort to stereotypes.) The winner is the Green Goddess salad with Romaine lettuce, hearts of palm, artichoke, tomato, and Parmesan chees tossed in a house-made green goddess dressing. Divine.

    Taverna, beet salad
    Beet salads sort of peaked in 2015 (to be replaced by kale, duh), but Alberto Lombardi's Italian mini-chain keeps the flame burning with an exceptional version that has roasted beets, mache, spinach, toasted hazelnuts, goat cheese, in a honey Champagne dressing.

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    Lindsey Wilson and Jessica Baldwin contributed to this story.

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    Steak & Ale News

    Local opening of Dallas chain Steak and Ale gets derailed

    Teresa Gubbins
    May 16, 2025 | 5:27 pm
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    The long-in-the-works return of Steak and Ale in Dallas is being shelved for now: The casual steakhouse chain which in its heyday had nearly 300 locations is no longer opening a location it planned for in Grand Prairie.

    According to a May 11 post from company owner Paul Mangiamele, the restaurant is definitely now a no-go.

    "After years of very hard and exhausting work for making the Grand Prairie side by side S&A and Bennigan’s happen, the rug has been yanked out from under us," Mangiamele said in his post.

    Often referred to as a pioneer in casual dining, Steak and Ale debuted in 1966, offering an affordable steakhouse experience with rustic Tudor design that included wooden beams and stained glass. In addition to steak and a signature salad bar, the menu featured then-fancy items such as steak Oscar, baby back ribs, and Hawaiian chicken with pineapple teriyaki sauce.

    The chain remained a buzzy destination throughout the '70s and '80s, but by 2008, the parent company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and the remaining locations closed.

    In 2023, businessman Paul Mangiamele, chairman and CEO of Legendary Restaurant Brands (which includes Monte Cristo sandwich purveyor Bennigan’s and Bennigan’s On The Fly, which he has also revived), launched a long-held plan to revive the Steak and Ale concept that included opening a new Steak and Ale in Burnsville, Minnesota, as well as partnering with a franchisee to open a location in Grand Prairie, side-by-side with a Bennigan's.

    The Minnesota location opened in August 2024, but Grand Prairie will not be so lucky, and according to Mangiamele, it's due to the shenanigans of the franchisee.

    "For years, we were being told by the developer and owner of the land how he was going to be our franchise partner," Mangiamele says. "He shared with me numerous times how he grew up with the brands and wanted to do his part in honoring Norman Brinker and would be a proud franchise owner. Well, after he finally (3 years later) received his money for selling some of his land, instead of being our franchise partner, he changed his tune, and wanted to instead, sell his land to us!!"

    According to Mangiamele, not only did the franchisee try to sell back the land, he tried to make a profit.

    "Our special deal was a ‘discounted’ price per foot on the land we’d need," Mangiamele says. "After a few due diligence calls, the discounted ’deal’ price was 20% higher than the comparable prices in the same area!! Simply unbelievable!"

    Mangiamele says they are still talking to other interested parties in the greater DFW area and should have more news soon.

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