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Celebrate New Year's Day 2019 brunch at these Dallas-Fort Worth restaurants

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You need to ease into 2019.

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The 2019 version of New Year's Day falls on a Tuesday. But with New Year's Day, the day of the week doesn't really matter. It's New Year's Day, people. The celebration must continue. You've run in your New Year's Eve with parties or with dinner, and now brunch must be consumed.

These restaurants are open on New Year's Day to help you get in the right frame of mind for 2019:

B&B Butcher's
The "hangover cure brunch" at this Fort Worth spot features dishes such as a black-eyed pea and greens special, and drinks that include the "manmosa" — like a mimosa, but served in a pilsner glass. 11 am-3 pm. 817-737-5212.

Blatt Beer & Table
Preston Hollow gastropub opens on New Year’s Day at 12 noon. 469-372-2080.

Chef Point
Watauga gas-station restaurant is open for brunch and dinner serving black-eyed peas all day. 11 am-9 pm. 817-656-0080.

Del Frisco's Grille
All four DFW locations will host a special New Year's Day Brunch with favorites like lemon ricotta pancakes, crabcake benedict, and Southern fried chicken & waffles. Brunch hours are 11 am-3 pm. Regular lunch and dinner menus will be available throughout the day.

Doc B's Restaurant & Bar
No-fuss restaurant will be open all day for lunch and dinner, serving its famous candied bacon, The Angry Meatball, shredded Brussels sprouts salad, oven roasted chicken wings, and wedge burger. Fort Worth, 682-231-8820; Dallas, 469-998-2330.

Harlowe MXM
Deep Ellum complex recently released a new brunch menu, just in time for New Year's Day. Highlights include Hawaiian doughnuts and chilaquiles verde, along with a selection of speciality toasts such as salmon avocado. 11 am-4 pm. 214-624-3310.

Haywire
Plano restaurant will serve a comfort food brunch including their venison chili with a side of buttered cornbread. 10 am-4 pm. 972-781-9473.

Knife
Both locations of John Tesar's steakhouse will serve brunch featuring specials from their regular brunch menu. 11 am-3:30 pm. Plano, 214-299-5935; Dallas, 214-443-9339.

Ida Claire
Southern-styled restaurant be open for brunch featuring regular brunch menu including signatures such as the catfish po’ boy with catfish, tomato, cabbage, and celery root slaw, pickles, and comeback sauce. 9 am-4 pm. 214-377-8227.

Mexican Sugar
Mexican restaurant will feature normal brunch menu including specials such as bone-in pork chop and eggs. 10 am-3 pm. 972-943-0984.

Morton's The Steakhouse
Uptown steakhouse will be open on New Year’s Day from 4-9 pm.

Oceanaire Seafood Room
Galleria seafood spot will be open New Year’s Day from 4-9 pm. They'll offer $1 oysters at the bar, offered all day long. 972-759-2277.

Perle on Maple
Restaurant at the Stoneleigh Hotel is in it for the long haul on New Year’s Day, open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, there whenever you crawl out of bed. 469-375-5846.

Razzoo's Cajun Café
All 21 Razzoo’s Cajun Café locations will be serving $5 Moonshine Marys and Hair of the Dog cocktails. These special prices are available all day on New Year’s Day.

Sixty Vines
Both locations of pizza and wine concept will host New Year’s Day brunch with regular brunch menu. 9 am-4 pm. Plano, 469-620-8463; Uptown Dallas, 214-814-8463.

Street's Fine Chicken
Both locations — Cedar Springs and North Dallas — will open on New Year's Day at noon serving brunch favorites like The Show Bird and Biscuit Sliders. Street’s also offers $3 mimosas.

Tricky Fish
Popular brunch is highlighted by an andouille hash, fried shrimp and oyster grits, and a New Orleans-inspired benedict. Tricky Fish now has two locations to receive guests – in Richardson’s CityLine, 972-437-3474, and Fort Worth’s Waterside, 817-731-5882. 10 am-2 pm.

Vidorra
Deep Ellum rooftop bar-restaurant is serving a Hangover Brunch with $5 Margaritas and $8 Mimosa Pitchers. 10 am-3 pm. 972-215-0640.

Wheelhouse
Design District pub will be serving a "Rehab/Relapse" brunch on New Year’s Day all day long. Recover with juice tonics - or a little hair of the dog. Bring a party of 8 or more and get free house-made pretzels. 11 am-10 pm. 214-307-5690.

Whiskey Cake
Both locations will be open for New Year’s Day brunch featuring regular brunch menu with dishes such as French toast "monte cristo" with Niman Ranch ham, cheese, jam, maple syrup, and mixed berries. 9 am-3 pm. Plano, 972-993-2253; Las Colinas, 469-941-2253.

Yard House
Brunch will be served starting at 8 am and offer $15 mix and match bottomless beverages — house beers, Mimosas and Bloody Marys.

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Italian Restaurant News

Italian restaurant The Saint makes debut in Dallas Design District

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The Saint

A swanky restaurant is relocating from one hip Dallas neighborhood to another: The Saint, the Italian steakhouse from Hooper Hospitality Concepts which originally opened near Deep Ellum in 2023, is moving to a new address in the Dallas Design District.

The restaurant will open at 1000 N. Riverfront Blvd., and it's happening soon: According to a release, it'll open on Saturday, January 3.

It's going into same building that will be home to Night Rooster, The Saint's sibling Asian concept which will open sometime in 2026.

Hooper Hospitality Concepts CEO Andy Hooper says in a statement that "the Design District offers the ideal setting for the experience we’ve created. It gives us greater visibility, a setting that matches the sophistication of our menu, and a chance to welcome even more guests into the world of The Saint."

Decor
The 1,800-square-foot dining room seats 85. Highlights include a golden-tiled stairway leading to the restaurant’s second-story landing, crowned by an 18th-century gilt chandelier, counterbalanced by a graffitied antique oil portrait hand-tagged by Design District artist Kelly O’Neal.

It's a whole opposites theme, creating a space where both “saints and sinners” feel at home. The wallpaper features a vivid interpretation of saints-and-sinners iconography, blending flora, fauna, snakes, doves, and talismanic motifs into a damask pattern.

Scalloped upholstered booths soften the room with elegant curves under the pink glow of an antique 1920s Parisian glass-domed chandelier. Nearly every seat captures a view of the downtown Dallas skyline.

New chef
The kitchen is now led by executive chef Sergio Esquivel, a Dallas-born chef whose culinary roots trace back to early days cooking beside his grandmothers. He attended The Culinary Institute of America and has worked at Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse, Georgie by Curtis Stone, Harper’s, Nuri Steakhouse, and as personal chef for the Jones family at AT&T Stadium.

His style blends steakhouse tradition with Italian technique, Peruvian brightness, American comfort, and Korean depth, with a commitment to crafting everything in-house.

His menu will include dry-aged cuts from Texas ranchers, Wagyu selections, housemade pastas, seafood, and vegetarian and vegan dishes.

Standout menu items include

Texas Wagyu Tartare with truffle carpaccio and balsamic cured egg yolk
Shellfish Platter with Maine lobster, king crab, oysters, and prawns with cocktail sauce
Wild Mushroom & Black Truffle Tagliatelle
32-oz Bistecca Alla Fiorentina

The bar program will continue to offer inventive cocktails and a notable wine selection, now enhanced by a lineup of new signature drinks such as the In Good Faith with Ford’s Gin, Ramazotti Apertivo, hibiscus syrup, lemon and sparkling wine; plus new smoked whiskey decanter drinks, offering a mesquite-smoked Manhattan and Old Fashioned in regular and top shelf selections.

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