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Where to drink in Dallas right now: 5 best new happy hours for March

Lineup of cocktails and wine at Frenchie.

Frenchie

With spring moving in, bringing nice days back to Dallas, one's thoughts turn to happy hour, to finding the latest places to grab a budget sip. This March edition of Where to Drink in Dallas consists of five restaurants with bars that have all recently introduced new happy hour offerings, featuring marked-down cocktails with snacks on the side.

Here are the five best new happy hours for March:

DeEva Kitchen & Bar
Plano mom-and-pop — formerly known as Mio Italian Kitchen, and before that, Cafe Amore — has two discount drink opportunities. Every Wednesday, they offer happy hour all day with $5 beers, $5 house wines, $10 cocktails, and $10 appetizers. Every Thursday, they offer select bottles of wine at half-price, such as Hess Cabernet for $25. They also host live music; on Saturday March 7, it'll be Larry Johnson and his Rat Pack-style repertoire.

D.L. Mack’s
For the newest happy hour in town, it doesn't get any fresher than this Chicago-inspired tavern, which just opened on March 4 at West Village in the former Midici space at 3699 McKinney Ave. #106, where it's serving its trademark cracker crust pizzas and American fare. Happy hour is daily from 4-6 pm at the bar, featuring $10 martinis and half-price wine. This is the third D.L. Mack's, joining locations in Preston Hollow and Highland Park.

Frenchie
Preston Center Plaza restaurant from Travis Street Hospitality (Le Bilboquet, Knox Bistro, Georgie, Rose Cafe) has a new happy hour experience, available Monday-Friday from 3-6 pm. The menu features $3 oysters and $10 bites, including smashburger, crispy pig ears, and chicken wings. Cocktails like the Paloma, Cosmopolitan, Old Fashioned, Sauv Story, and Carajillo are $10. They also offer four bottled wines at half-price including Cava, Rose, Chardonnay, and Cabernet Sauvignon.

Meridian
Restaurant at The Village has a new menu of cocktails: martini with blue cheese-washed vodka; anejo tequila with roasted chestnut, Meletti, & Cynar; mulled wine with Wild Turkey 101, blood orange, lemon, & egg white: hot buttered rum with banana, miso caramel, & butter batter; and a crème brulee old fashioned with rye, Licor 43, vanilla, and caramelized sugar. Explore the new cocktail menu during happy hour Tuesday-Friday from 4:30-7 pm in the bar and lounge, featuring $6 bottled beer, $8 house wines and bubbles, and $10 specialty cocktails.

Urban Italia
Now officially open in Victory Park for two months, the time has come for this Italian-American restaurant from chef Carla Pellegrino to unveil its happy hour program. Available daily from 4-6 pm on all non-event and non-game days at American Airlines Center, it features $2 off all cocktails, beer, and wine by the glass, alongside a menu of $12 bites and petite entrées such as mozzarella & truffle arancini, meatballs in marinara, pork belly burnt ends, calamari & zucchini, and zucchini chips with feta cheese dip & marinara.

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Where to drink in Dallas right now: 5 essential happy hours for June

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Tini-time at Crown Block

In the nick of time for the weekend and beyond, it's the latest edition of Where to Drink, CultureMap's monthly roundup of the best new happy hours to get a drink (and maybe a bite) at a discount. For June, the list stretches from downtown Dallas to McKinney, from $12 cocktails to cheap beer at a would-be dive bar.

Here's where to drink in June 2026:

Crown Block
Michelin-recommended restaurant atop Reunion Tower has launched "Tower Hour," a new summer happy hour available daily June 1-August 31 from 5-6:30 pm. Served in the Bar & Lounge only, it spotlights new martini-focused offerings including the TIni Tower, a two-tier tower with food & drink. The bottom tier has shellfish including oysters, crab claws, and lobster. The top tier has martinis and fixings, including a martini carafe, olives & other accoutrements, and martini glasses face down on crushed ice. Festive! They're also pouring $12 classic martinis with choice of Townes Vodka or Greenhouse Gin.

Elle on Ross
For cheap beers near downtown Dallas, hit this dive bar next to the former XOXO Dining Room (and from XOXO's owners Gap Concepts AKA Veeral Rathod and Obi Ibeto), which comes with pool table, arcade, TVs, and a happy hour offering every day, weekends included. Hours are Monday-Friday from 6-9 pm, Saturday-Sunday from 2-6 pm, when cocktails are $10, well drinks are $6, and beers are $4. Food consists of $8 dips and bites including sliders and wings.

Maroma
Upscale Mexican seafood restaurant which opened in May in the Design District has now introduced its happy hour, with a selection of bites and cocktails all priced at $12, served daily from 2-6 pm at the bar. Bites include calamari frito, green chili burguesa, and smoked beef cheek barbacoa sope. Plus oysters for $3. Drinks include the Maroma Paloma with Mi Campo tequila blanco and Fever Tree grapefruit soda; martini with choice of Citadelle Gin or Tito's Vodka; Mexican martini with castelvetrano olive juice; Muchacho margarita, rocks or frozen; and Corona y Caña with rum & pina colada candy floss. Plus house sparkling, red, and white wine.

Union Bear
Small local craft beer chain has three locations including Plano and Denton, but it's the McKinney outlet where you'll find the cool two-part happy hour: There's a "social hour" on weekdays from 3-6 pm, and then a second late-night happy hour daily from 9-11 pm with food, cocktails, wine, and beer. The food includes green chile pork rinds for $6, chips & queso for $6, pretzel bites for $8, and flatbreads for $13. Union Bear brews including IPA, amber, lager, blonde, & light are $4. House wine and well liquors are $7.

Uptown Dumpling
Chic Asian restaurant with California roots opened recently in North Dallas with a focus on xiao long bao, the famed soup dumplings, as well as Peking duck. But they also offer a happy hour with some real deals: Monday-Friday from 4-6 pm they become a "$5 sanctuary," with drinks and bites for $5 that include their signature Uptown Dragon — an intoxicating elixir containing rum, passionfruit, dragonfruit, lemon juice, and orange juice; plus margaritas, draft beer, house wines & sake. Their $5 snacks include edamame, spring rolls, cheese wontons, and fried popcorn chicken.

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