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Where to drink in Dallas right now: 5 bars with best new happy hours

These taste a little sweeter when they're a little cheaper.

Blatt Beer & Table

With the holidays coming, we need to pinch our pennies for gifts, festivities, splurges, and preparatory spa treatments. Dallas restaurants and bars are here to help by providing you with valuable cost savings on your cocktails and snacks.

Here are five new happy hours for November:

Bartaco
Upscale taqueria concept with locations at Dallas' Preston Center and Fort Worth's Clearfork has introduced a longer happy hour it calls "High Tide," which takes place weekdays from 3-6:30 pm; it used to be 4-6 pm. So it starts earlier, and runs later. You get pretty significant discounts on drinks such as the Mojito Tinto, usually $10 but $7.50 during HH. Wines are $6 and there's also markdowns on food such as tacos, only $2. Hours: Monday-Friday 3-6:30 pm.

Blatt Beer & Table
Unlike other happy hours that run weekdays only, Blatt is going all in with weekend happy hours, too, including Sunday afternoons. You get discounts on appetizers, wine, beer, and cocktails including chile con queso, mac & cheese bites, and deviled eggs. House wines are $3.50, and cocktails such as margaritas and Moscow mules are $6. Hours: Monday-Saturday 3-7 pm, Friday-Saturday 9:30-11 pm, and best of all Sundays, 3-8 pm.

Pok the Raw Bar
West Village spot with poké bowls, sushi, matcha, and sake is introducing its first happy hour offering on November 15. Huzzah. It'll be in effect every day from 4-6 pm — so thoughtful for budget-minded weekend tipplers. Their signature bowls will be $10, while their drink discounts will include sake and wine by the glass for $4, plus bottled beer, also $4. Hours: 4-6 pm daily.

Sidecar Social
Fun entertainment spot in Addison has a new "Social Hour" — their "social" renaming of happy hour — but it runs all during daylight hours until 6 pm. It features $4 call drinks, half-off house wine by the glass, and half-off flatbreads, too, to soak up your cheap drinks. They're also doing daily specials tha include: Mondays half-price wine bottles; Tuesdays $3 domestic drafts; Wednesdays $5 martinis; Thursdays $5 draft cocktails. Classic adult games including, hoops, darts, cornhole, ping pong, eight-man foosball, bocce ball, and shuffleboard are free. Hours: Monday-Friday 11 am-6 pm.

TorTaco
Hipster taco and mezcal bar in downtown Dallas has extended its happy hour time span from 3-7 pm, that's an hour later than its previous 6 pm end time. So if you're a downtown worker who punches out at 6 pm, you now have a shot at $3 house wines by the glass, $3 for draft beers, and $4 for house margaritas and well drinks. For the rest of you slackers, you can show up at your usual 3 pm. Hours: Monday-Friday 3-7 pm.

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Trades Delicatessen in Oak Cliff Dallas books baker for bread & bagels

Trades

Trades Delicatessen

Dallas' Oak Cliff is home to one thing that everyone wants: a deli. Called Trades Delicatessen, it's from longtime neighborhood entrepreneurs Jason Roberts and Amy Cowan (Oddfellows, Revelers Hall) and is serving breakfast and lunch daily with a menu of sandwiches and baked goods — including in-house baked breads and bagels.

The restaurant is at 312 W. 7th St. — a space previously occupied by Chan Thai and Pho 88, a joint restaurant that moved to Davis Street.

Roberts and Cowan had a vision for a combination brewery (called Jaquval), bakery, and sandwich shop. They opened Jaquval in December 2023, and then Trades in February 2024.

"We had been brewing our beer for a while and roasting our coffee, so we decided to do our own bread as well," Roberts says. "We wanted to have bagels in the neighborhood and new style sandwiches where we baked our bread and smoked our meats."

The two spots are connected by an open door. Sandwiches from Trades are sold at Jaquval. Both spaces share the bakery, roaster, and brewery in back.

The deli menu includes hot and cold sandwiches, modeled after places like Russ & Daughters and Katz Deli. There's a pastrami sandwich, French dip, and an Italian cold cut. There's a meatball sandwich, a pulled pork torta, and a mushroom melt with Swiss and provolone cheese.

There are also breakfast sandwiches on bagel, seeded roll, or sourdough toast.

All of their sandwiches are served on bread made in house. To lead their bakery, they brought in Devin Reynolds, who previously worked under David Madrid, founder of Wheat & Sour bakery and former baker at the now-closed Meridian.

At Trades, Reynolds is overseeing a program with all kinds of bread: hoagie rolls, hotdog and burger buns, rye, whole grain, sourdough, and bolillos, as well as pastries served at the deli, Jaquval, and Oddfellows.

You can get a baguette for $4, a Danish for $4.50, a pistachio croissant for $5, or a 6-pack of burger buns for $5.75.

They are also doing bagels with choice of in-house smoked lox, traditional lox, or pastrami lox. During the week, they make and sell about 150 bagels daily, and that number doubles on weekends, with varieties such as plain, blueberry, poppyseed, and everything. For extra authenticity, they installed a water filtration system with the same PH balance as water in New York.

Their beverage program includes coffee and espresso drinks, house-made root beer, and a made-to-order limeade/lemonade.

The space resembles a classic European bakery, with brass signage and a big window with visibility to the back bakery. There’s seating space for about 15, but the opening to the Jaquval space allows for fluid traffic and additional tables next door.

During COVID, they started a European-inspired bodega in Oddfellows and that moved to the current Trades Delicatessen space, where customers can find wine, nuts, candy, sardines, and olive oil. The deli also has sliced meats to-go, Luscher’s sausages —which is also used for the kolaches — house-made jams, coffee, wine, and sodas.

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