This week in gluttony

These are the 8 best food and drink events in Dallas this week

Caviar is a big theme this week.

Monarch

So much for the lazy days of summer. This week is packed with tasty events for all palates, with everything from hot dogs to caviar flights. Travel abroad via two worldly events, one featuring Italian cocktails and the other, Bolivian cuisine. Save room for free tea at a popular deli chain this Thursday.

Thursday, July 18

Stoneleigh Speakeasy
Le Meridien Dallas, The Stoneleigh will host the second of its three-part Stoneleigh Speakeasy series featuring an exclusive look inside the hotel’s 11th floor library bar, music room and dining room. The $75 ticket, plus tax and fee, includes a specialty cocktail, 1960s and ‘70s-inspired chef-crafted bites, live entertainment, and valet parking. The event will run from 5:30–8 pm.

Caviar Dinner at Monarch
The 49th floor restaurant will host a five-course Italian-inspired dinner paired with a variety of Osetra caviars, including Golden, Royal, Supreme, Venezia, and Siberian. Menu items include A5 Wagyu strip, saffron poached scallops, white chocolate crème fraiche mousse, and more. Wines will be paired with all five courses. Dinner is $350 plus tax and gratuity (which ends up coming out to $462), and begins at 6 pm.

Crown Block Caviar Celebration
Reunion Tower restaurant is throwing a caviar celebration with $400 bottles of Dom Perignon (marked down from $600!), $6 caviar stuffed olives for any martini, caviar steak frites with A5 and Regiis Ova Hackleback Caviar for $20, caviar nachos with sweet potato chips and Regiis Ova Hackleback Caviar for $20, and caviar cones for $20. 5-10 pm.

Milam & Greene Dinner at Barrel & Bones
The Colony outlet of the craft bar and smokehouse will host a second day of its five-course whiskey pairing dinner featuring Milam & Greene whiskey. (Wednesday’s event has sold out and there are just a few seats left for Thursday.) Menu items include ahi tuna tacos, Texas peach salad, duck confit pot pie, smoked tomahawk pork chop, and triple chocolate mousse with a CBD brownie. All courses come with a Milam & Greene cocktail. Dinner is $70 plus tax and a small fee, and begins at 7 pm.

Buffalo Trace Dinner at Ida Claire
Southern-influenced restaurant will pair four courses with selections from the Buffalo Trace bourbon whiskey catalog. Dinner is $95 plus tax and gratuity, and begins at 7 pm.

Saturday, July 20

Italy Cocktails: Booking Signing and Cocktail Class at The Joule
Travel author Paul Feinstein will show how to make a negroni in five different ways during this hands-on cocktail class and book signing. The $125 ticket, plus tax and gratuity, includes a signed copy of Feinstein’s book, Italy Cocktails: An Elegant Collection of Over 100 Recipes Inspired by Italia. The event will take place at Sassetta inside The Joule at 2 pm.

Kiln to Table: A Bolivian Dinner with Chefs Gigi Zimmerman and Marsia Taha
Dallas chef Gigliola “Gigi” Zimmerman will collaborate with chef Marsia Taha of Gustu in La Paz, Boliviana for a two-night pop-up Saturday and Sunday. The multi-course dinner will feature Socorro Tequila, Bolivian wine tastings, and live entertainment. To be held at Marcello Andres Ceramics, the event is $260 and begins at 5:30 pm.

Sip & Slider Wine Pairing at Landon Winery
Downtown McKinney wine bar will pair gourmet sliders with wine during this tasting event. The $44 ticket plus fee includes six two-ounce pours of Landon wines and three gourmet sliders plus a side of truffle fries. Slider varieties include pulled pork with mango salsa, grilled chicken with barbecue sauce, bacon, and Swiss cheese, and Italian with mozzarella, roasted red peppers, sun dried tomatoes, and kalamata olives. The pairing will run from 7–8:30 pm.

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Italian Restaurant News

Italian restaurant The Saint makes debut in Dallas Design District

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The Saint

A swanky restaurant is relocating from one hip Dallas neighborhood to another: The Saint, the Italian steakhouse from Hooper Hospitality Concepts which originally opened near Deep Ellum in 2023, is moving to a new address in the Dallas Design District.

The restaurant will open at 1000 N. Riverfront Blvd., and it's happening soon: According to a release, it'll open on Saturday, January 3.

It's going into same building that will be home to Night Rooster, The Saint's sibling Asian concept which will open sometime in 2026.

Hooper Hospitality Concepts CEO Andy Hooper says in a statement that "the Design District offers the ideal setting for the experience we’ve created. It gives us greater visibility, a setting that matches the sophistication of our menu, and a chance to welcome even more guests into the world of The Saint."

Decor
The 1,800-square-foot dining room seats 85. Highlights include a golden-tiled stairway leading to the restaurant’s second-story landing, crowned by an 18th-century gilt chandelier, counterbalanced by a graffitied antique oil portrait hand-tagged by Design District artist Kelly O’Neal.

It's a whole opposites theme, creating a space where both “saints and sinners” feel at home. The wallpaper features a vivid interpretation of saints-and-sinners iconography, blending flora, fauna, snakes, doves, and talismanic motifs into a damask pattern.

Scalloped upholstered booths soften the room with elegant curves under the pink glow of an antique 1920s Parisian glass-domed chandelier. Nearly every seat captures a view of the downtown Dallas skyline.

New chef
The kitchen is now led by executive chef Sergio Esquivel, a Dallas-born chef whose culinary roots trace back to early days cooking beside his grandmothers. He attended The Culinary Institute of America and has worked at Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse, Georgie by Curtis Stone, Harper’s, Nuri Steakhouse, and as personal chef for the Jones family at AT&T Stadium.

His style blends steakhouse tradition with Italian technique, Peruvian brightness, American comfort, and Korean depth, with a commitment to crafting everything in-house.

His menu will include dry-aged cuts from Texas ranchers, Wagyu selections, housemade pastas, seafood, and vegetarian and vegan dishes.

Standout menu items include

Texas Wagyu Tartare with truffle carpaccio and balsamic cured egg yolk
Shellfish Platter with Maine lobster, king crab, oysters, and prawns with cocktail sauce
Wild Mushroom & Black Truffle Tagliatelle
32-oz Bistecca Alla Fiorentina

The bar program will continue to offer inventive cocktails and a notable wine selection, now enhanced by a lineup of new signature drinks such as the In Good Faith with Ford’s Gin, Ramazotti Apertivo, hibiscus syrup, lemon and sparkling wine; plus new smoked whiskey decanter drinks, offering a mesquite-smoked Manhattan and Old Fashioned in regular and top shelf selections.

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