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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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West Dallas gets new Spanish-Peruvian restaurant with big-name chef

Photo courtesy of Ulloa's

Paella will be on the menu.

A new restaurant with a high-profile culinary director will bring Spanish and Peruvian flavors to West Dallas: Called Ulloa’s, it is coming to 727 Fort Worth Ave., with a projected opening in March 2027.

The concept is from philanthropists Susan and Woodrow Gandy, who were previously investors in the historic Belmont Hotel just around the corner. They've teamed up with Dallas celebrity chef Kent Rathbun as culinary director, along with Christopher Tunnell as general manager to lead the front of the house.

Rathbun is a name Dallas diners know well, with a resume that includes The Mansion on Turtle Creek, the Landmark Restaurant at the historic Melrose Hotel, Seventeen Seventeen at the Dallas Museum of Art, Abacus, Jasper's, Rathbun’s Blue Plate Kitchen, and more. He's won numerous awards and made multiple appearances on Food Network. He was most recently behind the launch of On The Rocks, an Italian bistro in Burleson.

Chef Kent Rathbun will be the culinary director of Ulloa's. Photo courtesy of Kent Rathbun

Tunnell’s background spans both culinary direction and front-of-house operations. He worked at Los Angeles hot spots Ketchup, Geisha House, and Les Deux, as well as the Mandalay Bay and The Mirage in Las Vegas, before moving to Dallas to open The Mexican, the upscale restaurant in the Design District.

“I am truly excited to partner with Chef Kent Rathbun, whose reputation is amazing — not only in the DFW Metroplex, but in the culinary world,” Tunnell says. “He has been with this project since the beginning, helping develop it; this will be a very chef-driven, culinary-forward restaurant.”

The team's vision for Ulloa’s is both culinary and urban, with hopes of anchoring the corridor and attracting other businesses to Fort Worth Avenue — a stretch connecting downtown Dallas with Oak Cliff that remains somewhat underdeveloped despite its panoramic skyline views.

The restaurant is named for Spanish explorer, astronomer, and scientist Antonio de Ulloa, who spent extensive time in the Mexican peninsula before becoming Louisiana’s first governor. During his travels, Ulloa documented a fogbow — a circular rainbow formed when sunlight meets mist that causes silhouettes standing between the sun and fog to appear ringed in light, a phenomenon known today as “Ulloa’s Rings.”

That vibrant phenomenon inspired both the restaurant's identity and logo. The concept promises "bold, worldly flavors in a welcoming neighborhood setting inspired by exploration and discovery,” the owners say.

Ulloa's Rendering of Ulloa's.Rendering courtesy of Ulloa's

While the menu remains in development, Tunnell describes the culinary direction as “Spanish soul with a Peruvian heart.” The kitchen will merge the coastal flavors of both traditions — ranging from paellas and ceviches to crafted cocktails and signature adaptations by Rathbun.

The 200-seat, two-story space will feature a downstairs dining room, a large bar, and an outdoor patio. Upstairs, plans call for a secondary bar, a private dining room, a patio, and an expansive balcony patio, offering views of the city's skyline and of the Margaret Hunt Hill and Margaret McDermott bridges.

While the upstairs space will be available for private events, the owners intend for it to operate primarily as an organic extension of the main restaurant. The buildout will include a guest elevator along with ample parking, including both self-parking and valet options.

The team says the restaurant will have have an aesthetic that's “warm, theatrical, generous, elegant but alive, with the energy of a great Spanish tapas bar and the soul of Peruvian hospitality.”

Ulloa’s plans to launch with dinner service first, followed by lunch and weekend brunch.

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