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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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Where to Drink

Where to drink in Dallas right now: 5 fun cocktail spots for October

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The October edition of Where to Drink, CultureMap's monthly column offering advice on the best cocktails to try around Dallas, has a slightly spooky theme. It includes the popular happy hours that are a common theme of Where to Drink, but also some special menus that celebrate fall.

Here's where to drink in Dallas for October 2026:

Beau Nash
In-house restaurant at Hotel Crescent Court joins the property's celebration of fall with "Boos and Brews," an autumn-themed menu of seasonal cocktails. For example, the Campfire Martini has Oak and Eden bourbon, espresso, chocolate liqueur, and a toasted marshmallow. Blood Orange Paloma has G4 tequila, Solerno blood orange liqueur, blood orange juice, lime, and a black cherry float garnished with a dehydrated blood orange. The Night Shade contains Appleton spiced rum, black currant syrup, Chambord, grapefruit juice, basil, and a dehydrated lemon. Lastly, the ultra-decadent Affogato, which combines Monkey Shoulder scotch, espresso, vanilla ice cream, and chopped pistachios on top.

Fortune House
Restaurant acclaimed for its dumplings has an excellent happy hour with 50 percent off all house cocktails, wines by the glass, draft beer, and hot sake. Notable drinks include the 5-spice espresso martini with Weber Ranch vodka, Patron XO Coffee Liqueur, five-spice oleo, and Cultivar cold brew, for $7.50; and the Forbidden Ube Daiquiri with rum, ube coconut syrup, and lime for $6.50 instead of the standard $13. HH snacks include pork xiao long bao, four for $6; pan-fried pork buns, three for $7; beef potstickers, three for $6; and veggie eggrolls for $1 each. What a deal. The happy hour runs Monday-Friday from 3-6 pm at both locations: 8150 N. MacArthur Blvd. in Irving, and 2010 Greenville Ave. in Dallas.

The Reserve at The Highland
In-house restaurant at the Highland Dallas hotel has launched Golden Hour, offering 50 percent off select signature cocktails daily from 4-7 pm, with a rotating lineup of drinks changing seasonally. The menu boasts a mischievous Texas-inspired theme, named for some of Dallas' poshest neighborhoods: for example, the Preston Hollow Gimlet has Hendrick’s Gin, Orange Curaçao, lime, and bitters. The sparkly Highland Park Blush combines Bluecoat American Dry Gin with lemon juice, cranberry juice, and La Marca Prosecco. The Bluebonnet Bubbles is another sparkler with Ketel One Vodka, Caravella Limoncello, Reàl Blueberry, lemon juice, and La Marca Prosecco. Regularly priced from $16 to $18, they're 50 percent off during happy hour.

Sor Juana
New botanería at the Dallas Farmers Market is inspired by traditional Mexican establishments where drinks are served alongside complimentary snacks and bar bites. The bar program is managed by Saúl Hernández (previously of Midnight Rambler, La Viuda Negra, and Las Almas Rotas), with creative cocktails such as the signature La Nueva Sangre — an orange blossom gin cocktail with beet juice, lemon, passion fruit, and lavender bitters. Happy hour runs Wednesday-Friday from 5:30-7:30 pm, featuring $6 beers, $8 wines, and $8 cocktails infused with house-made Mexican chili oil macha sauce.

III Forks
In 2025, this classy steakhouse chain reopened its Addison location in a glorious new setting at 5100 Belt Line Rd. #800 at the Village on the Parkway. Now, they've introduced a brand-new happy hour, Monday-Saturday from 3-6 pm. It features half-priced wines by the glass, $1 oysters, and half-price Tito's Martinis, with Tito’s Handmade Vodka, 1888 Hand-Pressed Olive Juice, and garnished with bacon and bleu cheese-stuffed olives. The promotion is a celebration of this flagship location in Addison, and is the only location that has a happy hour offering.

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