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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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Saucy Summer

Loro Asian Smokehouse bottles fan-favorite sauces for summer in Dallas

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This lively salsa can now dress up dishes at home.

You can't bottle famed Texas pitmaster Aaron Franklin's meat-smoking skills, but you can bottle the sauce at Loro, his popular Asian Smokehouse founded with Uchi chef Tyson Cole. Three of the restaurant's signature sauces will be available for a limited time this summer, starting June 21 and ending July 5.

A press release promises "bold, smoke-kissed flavors" on offer during the restaurant's "Saucy Summer" event. Guests can pick them up from all Loro locations across Texas. In Dallas, that means 1812 North Haskell Ave. in East Dallas and 14999 Montfort Dr. in Addison. There are also locations in Austin and Houston.

Fans of Loro probably already know these flavors from dipping wonton chips and slathering fried chicken sandwiches.

Loro Hot Sauce Loro's smoked hot sauce and chicken are a perfect match.Photo courtesy of Hai Hospitality

The three sauces for sale are:

Tamarind BBQ: A sweet sauce that's "a little wild" thanks to spicy and fruity flavors. Ingredients include tamarind, honey, soy, pineapple, Thai sriracha, mesquite, and nam tok seasoning — usually a mix of lime, chili flakes, and other standard seasonings like salt and sugar. This one is recommended for brisket, grilled chicken, or brushing ribs in the last five minutes of cooking.
Loro Hot Sauce: Described as "buttery" and "chili-forward." It's also made with Thai sriracha and augmented with dried Thai chili flakes, vinegar, butter, and tallow. The recipe was made with eggs, tacos, fried rice, wings, sandwiches, and spicy spreads in mind.
Green Chili Salsa and Marinade: Be careful with this spicy sauce, which has a "sneaky heat." The overall tone is bright and herbal thanks to green tomato, cilantro, garlic, lime, and ginger, with soybean paste and Thai chili adding oomph. This sauce is great for marinating chicken or shrimp, but it can also be poured right on top of tacos and rice bowls or used to finish veggies and grilled fish.

Each sauce sells for $8, but shoppers can bundle three of them for $20.

Purchases can be made for dine-in or takeout via Toast. Deliveries are available via Door Dash and Uber Eats while the promotion is running. To stay on top of stock, only a certain number of sauces will be sold each day.

Loro Tamarind BBQ Sauce Sauce-lovers can bundle all three sauces for variety.Photo courtesy of Hai Hospitality

Whether or not guests purchase a sauce, they can use the code SAUCYSUMMER to take $10 off to-go orders placed July 3 and 4.

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