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    Non-Valentine's Day Edition

    Where to eat in Dallas right now: 10 hot restaurants for February

    Teresa Gubbins
    Feb 6, 2013 | 5:00 am

    With all that January asceticism behind us and Valentine's Day looming ahead, February is about romance, excess, and lots and lots of chocolate. March forward.

    Samar
    Lately, the Stephan Pyles restaurant getting all the attention is Stampede 66. Stampede 66 this and Stampede 66 that. Well, Stephan Pyles has other restaurants too, you know! Like Samar — where, hello, it's suddenly Deals Central. The small plates menu is now half-price on Monday and Tuesday, and there are happy hour specials 4 to 7 pm on weekdays, including bottles of wine and carafes of sangria for $15.

    Lazaranda
    God bless Lazaranda for bringing to Dallas the unusual Zarandeado style of grilling fish over charcoal — before learning the hard lesson that Dallas will pout until it gets its meat. Segue the menu update with steaks, rib-eye tacos and osso buco. But, come on: Here's your chance to sample a unique style of coastal Mexican seafood without having to leave town.

    Peak & Elm
    This sincere father-son venture opens on February 8 in the up-and-coming New East Elm neighborhood. Jesse Moreno Jr. and his dad, Jesse Sr., of La Popular Tamale House, are banking on a new kind of foodie to appreciate their modest brand of Mexican food. It's a gamble, but they've hedged their bets: P&E has a full bar.

    Omni Dallas
    Omni Dallas joins an Omni Hotel-wide initiative with a menu of six street foods from different regions: braised lamb tostado, char kway teow (stir-fried noodle dish), a Palestinian chicken musakhan sandwich, duck empanadas and a short rib sandwich. Do not dawdle; it's a limited-edition thing that's available only until the end of March.

    20 Feet Seafood Joint
    After more than a year in the making, it has arrived: 20 Feet Seafood Joint, the casual fish shack in East Dallas, next-door to Goodfriend Beer Garden & Burger House. Co-owners Marc and Sue Cassel worked together at the Green Room, and — voila — the menu includes Green Room mussels, along with clam chowder, lobster rolls, and fish and chips.

    Pop Diner
    The Pop Diner mystery is about to be solved. For a year it sat in the West Village, elusive and inscrutable. This week it finally opens with a diner-like menu of burgers, hot dogs, wings and breakfast foods. A screaming neon menu doesn't usually bode well, but should all else fail, Pop Diner is open 24 hours. That alone merits a hurrah.

    Sissy's Southern Kitchen & Bar
    There's more here than fried chicken, including a lunch menu of Southern dishes such as ham and mortadella salad with biscuits and pimento cheese, catfish and oyster po' boys, muffaletta sandwich, and pickled shrimp salad. A seasonal dessert introduced in January was bananas Foster pudding, layered in a tall, glass-like a parfait.

    Campisi's in downtown Dallas
    Who has the best pizza? The topic never gets old. If you're classic Dallas, Campisi's thin-crust oblong is your go-to pie. The recipes are solid; they've been making them since 1946. But what's cool about Campisi's now is where it's showing up: Rockwall, Fort Worth and downtown Dallas, where it serves workers and residents with long, reliable hours — Sundays too.

    Asador
    The menu at this Renaissance Hotel restaurant has received lots of TLC. Chef Brad Phillips consulted with chef-proprietor Dean James Max to introduce a slate of new, seasonal menu items — Gulf oysters, tempura tuna, grilled flat-iron steak — plus cocktails by in-house mixologist Tyler Lott.

    Green Grocer
    The Greenville Avenue hipster grocery specializes in local, pasture-raised, organic, etc., and the goodies coming out of the prepared case/sandwich station are amazing. One day they might re-create "The Combo" from Portillo's in Chicago, but with grass-fed beef and Brian Luscher's pasture-raised pork sausage; another day, they'll do a vegan banh mi sandwich (and sell out in 10 minutes). Then, maybe a sweet potato-red lentil-white bean curry. It's always creative and never the same.

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    The small plates menu at Samar is now half-price on Monday and Tuesday, and there are happy hour specials 4 to 7 pm on weekdays.

    Dining room of Samar restaurant in Dallas
      
    Photo by Terri Glanger
    The small plates menu at Samar is now half-price on Monday and Tuesday, and there are happy hour specials 4 to 7 pm on weekdays.
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    Steak & Ale News

    Local opening of Dallas chain Steak and Ale gets derailed

    Teresa Gubbins
    May 16, 2025 | 5:27 pm
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    Steak and Ale

    The long-in-the-works return of Steak and Ale in Dallas is being shelved for now: The casual steakhouse chain which in its heyday had nearly 300 locations is no longer opening a location it planned for in Grand Prairie.

    According to a May 11 post from company owner Paul Mangiamele, the restaurant is definitely now a no-go.

    "After years of very hard and exhausting work for making the Grand Prairie side by side S&A and Bennigan’s happen, the rug has been yanked out from under us," Mangiamele said in his post.

    Often referred to as a pioneer in casual dining, Steak and Ale debuted in 1966, offering an affordable steakhouse experience with rustic Tudor design that included wooden beams and stained glass. In addition to steak and a signature salad bar, the menu featured then-fancy items such as steak Oscar, baby back ribs, and Hawaiian chicken with pineapple teriyaki sauce.

    The chain remained a buzzy destination throughout the '70s and '80s, but by 2008, the parent company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and the remaining locations closed.

    In 2023, businessman Paul Mangiamele, chairman and CEO of Legendary Restaurant Brands (which includes Monte Cristo sandwich purveyor Bennigan’s and Bennigan’s On The Fly, which he has also revived), launched a long-held plan to revive the Steak and Ale concept that included opening a new Steak and Ale in Burnsville, Minnesota, as well as partnering with a franchisee to open a location in Grand Prairie, side-by-side with a Bennigan's.

    The Minnesota location opened in August 2024, but Grand Prairie will not be so lucky, and according to Mangiamele, it's due to the shenanigans of the franchisee.

    "For years, we were being told by the developer and owner of the land how he was going to be our franchise partner," Mangiamele says. "He shared with me numerous times how he grew up with the brands and wanted to do his part in honoring Norman Brinker and would be a proud franchise owner. Well, after he finally (3 years later) received his money for selling some of his land, instead of being our franchise partner, he changed his tune, and wanted to instead, sell his land to us!!"

    According to Mangiamele, not only did the franchisee try to sell back the land, he tried to make a profit.

    "Our special deal was a ‘discounted’ price per foot on the land we’d need," Mangiamele says. "After a few due diligence calls, the discounted ’deal’ price was 20% higher than the comparable prices in the same area!! Simply unbelievable!"

    Mangiamele says they are still talking to other interested parties in the greater DFW area and should have more news soon.

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