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    Drinking Diaries

    Mockingbird Taproom offers a grown-up, sometimes sterile, sports-watchingexperience

    Jonathan Rienstra
    Dec 26, 2012 | 12:00 pm
    • Located in the north end of Mockingbird Station, Mockingbird Taproom is ahigh-end sports bar that takes its food and beers seriously.
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    • Taproom's La Piña is made of muddled jalapeno, pineapple and mint with rum,pineapple and cranberry juice topped with soda. We'd drink that.
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    Mockingbird Taproom is going through its soft opening right now, so we figured we’d stop by and see what all the emails were about. It hasn’t even been open a week, so we’re keeping an open mind.

    Taproom is a high-end sports bar in Mockingbird Station by way of the owners of Primebar and Park Tavern. The layout is largely the same as those places, with pseudo-industrial touches, from the steel chairs to the exposed brick walls. It’s a little sterile, but not uninviting.

    But a sports bar must be good for sports, first and foremost. It’s just science. Taproom sports 20 flat screens and 5,800 square feet; it’s impossible not to be in the sight line of one wherever you are.

    If Mockingbird Taproom is still around next football season, it’ll be a strong contender for watch parties.

    Can I say I liked it? I liked it. Perhaps the only thing that could change is that there isn’t one main, bigger TV over the bar. It wasn’t an issue for me, but some of my bar research associates begged to differ.

    The biggest downside to Taproom is that it opened so late in football season. It has happy hour all day Sundays, with half-price appetizers and $3 Texas drafts and wells. The beer selection is mostly crafts, many of them local. Being able to get a Peticolas Royal Scandal, followed by a Revolver Blood & Honey and a Deep Ellum IPA, all for $9, is a great design for keeping people around.

    I usually leave the food to Teresa Gubbins, as I usually should, but I know a thing or two about wings, so we’ll talk about wings. We went with the Texas Asphalt, one of Taproom's third-tier spices. This dark, thick sauce is what every spicy barbecue wing sauce wants to be. It’s that good kind of burning that doesn’t need a doctor, with a nice smoke quality that tempers the spice until you realize you’ve chugged your beer and water — and your mouth is still watering.

    There’s a spicier level called “Y.G.H.U.T.” that stands for You’re Gonna Hate Us Tomorrow. It requires a waiver, and our waiter said he would never recommend it to anyone. If you’re a masochist, it might be worth a shot.

    The strangest part of our trip to the Taproom was the service. Our waiter was perfectly nice and helpful, but his timing was all over the place.

    Beers took a while to show up, but our food arrived right away. The place wasn’t even busy, so it doesn’t seem like the bar was overwhelmed or that they had the food waiting under a heat lamp. Chalk it up to soft-opening hiccups for now.

    If Mockingbird Taproom is still around next football season, it’ll definitely be a strong contender for watch parties. Until then, it remains to be seen what kind of sports bar this will be. It lacks a certain personality, which needs to be cultivated before it can be the kind of place that attracts regulars.

    Between Taproom, the People’s Last Stand and Trinity Hall, Mockingbird Station now has a strong trio of bars with independent styles. Still, Mockingbird Station is not the kind of place that encourages rowdiness. The whole thing is so corporate and clean.

    But for a good post-work happy hour or as the bar before you actually go out? Yeah, Mockingbird Taproom is good for that. And playoff games, if the Cowboys can keep it together.

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    Design District News

    Acclaimed Dallas chef Omar Flores plots restaurant in Design District

    Teresa Gubbins
    May 22, 2025 | 1:43 pm
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    An acclaimed Dallas chef has a new concept in the works: Called Maroma, it's the newest concept from Big Dill Hospitality, led by award-winning Chef Omar Flores and the Marshi family, and is slated to open in the Dallas Design District.

    The restaurant will be located at 1333 Oak Lawn Ave. at Market Center Boulevard, on the first floor of the brand new Thirteen Thirty Three Building.

    According to a release, it'll open in September.

    The menu will focus on coastal Mexican cuisine, inspired by the ceviches, aguachiles, specialty seafood dishes, and mesquite grilled meats perfected in the region.

    Seafood and prime steaks take centerstage with a modern, sophisticated yet simple approach to each plate. Offerings are designed for communal enjoyment, creating a lasting impression.

    Maroma joins Flores' popular sibling concepts Even Coast and Muchacho.

    Flores was introduced to the culinary world at a young age, starting in his family’s restaurants in El Paso. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Hotel & Restaurant Management from New Mexico State University and is a graduate of the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park.

    Big Dill Hospitality launched the Tex-Mex concept Muchacho in 2019 which currently has locations in both Dallas and Southlake.

    His most recent venture is Even Coast, located at 5463 Belt Line Rd., and part of the new Work Shop complex at Prestonwood Boulevard in Addison. The restaurant specializes in fresh seafood, steaks, and house-made pastas, and opened in summer 2024.

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