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New supper series top 6 best food and drink events in Dallas this week

Crossbuck BBQ will launch a new supper club this week.

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Two Dallas-area restaurants will launch new dinner series this week - one featuring celeb chefs and the other, craft cocktails and modern Texas barbecue. Also partake in some plant therapy paired with mocktails or a cocktail showdown featuring coconut and rum. Don't miss a Scottish January tradition at a local pub that'll host bagpipers to serenade guests during a three-course Scottish dinner.

Tuesday, January 20

Dallas Coquito Final Showdown at Saint Valentine
Top Dallas bartenders will compete to create their best coquito – a Puerto Rican Christmas cocktail similar to eggnog and made with rum and coconut – during this cocktail competition hosted by Tales of the Cocktail and Bacardi Rum. The competition will take place at Saint Valentine from 7-11 pm and guests are invited to sample each bartender’s entry and vote for their favorite. Entry and sampling are free, although an RSVP is encouraged.

Wednesday, January 21

Old Forester Whiskey Dinner Experience at Barrel & Bones
The Colony outlet of the craft bar and smokehouse will host a four-course dinner featuring bourbon expressions from Kentucky-based Old Forester. The menu includes salted cod croquettes, panzanella and panela cheese salad, roasted pork shoulder, and raspberry opera cake. There are a few tickets left and they’re $75, plus tax and a service fee. Dinner begins at 7 pm.

Thursday, January 22

Plant Project Sip & Shop 8 Hundred North
Get a dose of plant therapy during this a pop-up shopping experience in the lobby bar of JW Marriot Dallas Arts District by the team from The Plant Project. Enjoy a welcoming elixir upon arrival and take advantage of a $10 special on the bar’s signature Daisy mocktail. The event will run from 5-9 pm.

Celebrity Chef Dinner Series at The Crescent Club featuring Dean Fearing
Hotel Crescent Court has launched a monthly dining series featuring big-name chefs, with the first to include Dean Fearing, widely recognized as the “Father of Southwestern Cuisine.” Highlights from the three-course menu include Dean’s tortilla soup and a Texas surf and turf dish of chicken fried lobster and barbecue-spiced beef filet. Courses come with wine pairings, and the dinner will take place inside The Crescent Club located on the 17th floor, which is typically not open to the public. Reservations are $250 and the event begins at 6 pm with a cocktail reception. The new dinner series will run through June.

4th Annual Burns Night at The Londoner Pub Dallas
Burns Night is a Scottish tradition in January that celebrates the life and work noted Scottish poet, Robert Burns. A supper of haggis (a savory Scottish pudding) is served with scotch whiskey while bagpipers play. Experience The Londoner’s version of the tradition, which will include a three-course dinner, Glendronach Scotch whiskey, highland dancing, and bagpipes by North Texas Caledonian Pipes and Drums. Reservations are $60 and the event begins at 7 pm.

Friday, January 23

Supper Club at Crossbuck BBQ
UPDATE 1-22-26: The Crossbuck BBQ Supper Club has been postponed to Friday, January 30 due to weather.
The Farmers Branch destination for a modern take on Texas barbecue has launched a new monthly supper club series. Pitmaster and owner Tim McLaughlin will present five courses paired with craft cocktails. Highlights from this week’s inaugural supper club menu include smoked brisket empanadas, smoked cherry and star anise sorbet, twice-cooked bone-in pork chop with chipotle and pear compote, and blueberry ginger cobbler with peppermint ice cream. Tickets are $150, plus tax and dinner begins at 7:30 pm.

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Foodie-centric Flamant restaurant in Plano closes doors after a year

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Plano restaurant Flamant, which brought an ambitious foodie option to the Boardwalk at Granite Park, has closed. The chef-driven restaurant, located at 5880 SH-121 #103b, closed in mid-October; it been open for 16 months.

In a statement, owner Tanner Agar confirmed that the restaurant had closed, saying that he'd received an offer from another operator to take over the space.

"There are some people who wanted to buy out the space and we decided to let them," he said.

Agar and executive chef Taylor Rause opened Flamant with great fanfare in June 2025 as a European live fire cocktail bar and bistro — a sibling to Rye and Apothecary, the two concepts they owned on Greenville Avenue. The duo had earned multiple accolades, including a "Recommended" status in the 2024 Michelin Guide Texas.

Flamant's menu was rooted in the culinary traditions of Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy, with food cooked over an open flame — allowing Agar to revisit his time working in both Spain and France as a young chef. It also represented a return to the northern suburbs, where the duo had previously operated a restaurant in McKinney.

Featured dishes included a vegan "faux gras," pasta, wood-fired Wagyu burger, and pepperoncini chicken. True to form, its bar menu was superb with knockout cocktails that included two irresistible frozen drinks: the Frozérosé with Ilegal mezcal, coconut, and strawberry, and a soft-serve margarita with Patrón blanco, grilled pineapple soft serve, and lime.

They also hosted an unusual "resort-style" all you-can-eat weekend brunch, served not from a buffet, but directly to your table, with options such as hashbrowns with smashed avocado, shakshuka, and cannoli French toast.

Agar has never been afraid to follow his muse even if it meant disrupting an established presence such as the one they developed with Rye.

The chef-driven concept debuted in McKinney in 2015, followed by a second location on Greenville Avenue in 2021. (The McKinney location closed in 2022 after its building was extensively damaged in a fire.)

Rye became known for its innovative tasting menu, and in 2024 earned recognition from the Michelin Guide, which praised its “genuine hospitality” and “unrestrained” cuisine.

Despite the acclaim, they closed Rye in early 2026, giving over the space to Apothecary, their adjacent bar. In March 2026, they shape-shifted Apothecary into a dual-bar concept under two names, Apothecary and Alchemy, which by the way is about to debut a new menu.

As for the Flamant space, Agar says he can't talk about what's next but that the new owners will soon announce their plans.

"Right now, I'm focused on Apothecary and my show Flavorphiles," he says, referring to a podcast and radio show that he launched in 2025 with radio personality (and his father) Jerry Agar, "where food, drinks, culture and lifestyle collide." It currently airs on several iHeart radio stations in Canada and is growing to more markets, he says.

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Alex Bentley contributed to this story.

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