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    Time For Dining News

    Tacos and crazy drinks hit the spot in this Dallas restaurant news

    Raven Jordan
    Feb 14, 2025 | 12:19 pm
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    In this edition of dining news around Dallas, local restaurants are getting revamped, adding spiring menus, introducing new dishes, and serving up sweet drinks with one crazy collaboration. Hint: Think Peeps.

    Here's what's happening in Dallas restaurant news:

    Urbano Cafe, the east Dallas restaurant that was acquired just about one year ago by Pasha and Sina Heidari (Mike’s Gemini Twin in the Cedars, Bowen House, Las Palmas Tex-Mex), has debuted an all-new food menu— part of a collaboration with Dallas chef William Salisbury — who won CultureMap's Tastemaker Awards Rising Star Chef in 2024, and who is consulting with the Urbano team including chef Oseas Rivera. The menu offers new takes on Urbano's Italian-American approach with dishes like Lobster Raviolo Fra Diavolo, Baked Mezzi Rigatoni, and Salmon Pesto & Asparagus. A renovation of the space includes new stemware, cutlery, dinnerware, linens, updated patio, refreshed interior decor, and remodeled bathrooms.

    Chipotle opened a location at 1831 Military Pkwy. in Mesquite on February 3. The new location has the first "Chipotlane" in Mesquite, a drive thru pick-up lane that allows customers to pick up digital orders without leaving their cars.

    Bbbop Seoul Kitchen in Oak Cliff has launched a boba tea program featuring both fruit tea and milk tea. Flavors include mango, strawberry, peach, an Arnold Palmer, brown sugar milk tea, and taro milk tea. Topping options include lychee coconut jelly, popping mango, and popping strawberry. A 24-ounce beverage is $6.50.

    Rusty Taco launched a new menu featuring cracked tostada shrimp ceviche, rolled tacos, all-day breakfast burritos, and a 12-taco package for $49. The menu will be available at three locations in Dallas ahead of a national rollout, including the Greenville Avenue flagship, Hurst, and Denton.

    Cerulean Blue, the Flower Mound coffee house, has introduced two cookies of the month: gooey butter cake and stuffed red velvet cookie. The Red Velvet Cookie is their first-ever stuffed cookie - a soft and chewy cookie dotted with white chocolate chips and with a velvety cream cheese frosting center. The Gooey Butter Cake Cookie has a butter cookie flavor with a chewy center. Cookies are $4 each. Available until the end of February.

    Broken Yolk Cafe, the brunch restaurant in McKinney, is offering two seasonal items: plant-based power wrap with vegan chorizo and vegan egg for $15, and yuzu lemonade cooler with Monin Yuzu puree for $6.

    Tacodeli has brought back the quesa birria taco featuring a griddled corn tortilla filled with Nolan Ryan Beef roast and Monterey Jack cheese, topped with crema Mexicana, paired with consommé. It's $5.50 and available through February 28.

    Komodo has teamed up with La La Land, the Dallas based coffee shop, for a new matcha martini cocktail featuring Tito’s Vodka, La La Land matcha, and Irish cream — delivering an energizing sip with a little kick. The drink is $20, but can be upgraded to 818 Reposado Tequila for an extra $4. It's available at all three Komodo locations—Dallas, Miami, and Las Vegas.

    Moxies just launched a new brunch menu with items such as the $18 big breakfast with eggs, jalapeño pork sausage, bacon, home fries, tomato, and multi-grain toast; $35 steak & eggs with an 8-ounce prime sirloin, eggs, also with tomato, home fries, and multi-grain toast; and $20 farmers hash, with pancetta, jalapeño pork sausage, roasted vegetables, pickled onions, poached eggs, home fries, and hollandaise. A new build-your-own mimosa option features choice of bubbles paired with orange, pineapple orange, or grapefruit juice.

    HTeaO, the iced tea chain, has a new partnership with Poppi prebiotic soda, blending poppi’s sodas with HTeaO’s iced tea in flavors including trop poppi, peachy poppi, and dirty cherry poppi. The drinks are $5.49 for the 24-ounce and $7 for the 32-ounce.

    Cracker Barrel has a spring brunch menu with four new items: Oreo stuffed cheesecake pancakes, strawberry stuffed cheesecake pancakes, Louisiana style shrimp skillet, and shrimp & grits. There are also two new drinks — pancake latte and strawberry peach lemonade — and a new strawberry icebox pie dessert. Available at Allen, Arlington, DeSoto, Grapevine, Mesquite, and Rockwall locations.

    Dakota's Steakhouse, the subterranean restaurant in downtown Dallas, is opening on Sundays for the first time in 40 years. They’ll open on Sunday evenings from 5-9 pm, and in addition to their regular menu, are adding Prime Rib, which they're calling "Prime Rib Sundays," exclusive to Sunday nights only, in 12-ounce and 16-ounce sizes.

    Torchy’s has three new "Torched" bowls: the big tipsy with bourbon bacon marmalade, fajita chicken, and onions; the bonfire bowl with jerk chicken or blackened salmon with pistachios, mango, and avocado sauce; and the moontower with shrimp, cotija, black bean & corn relish, and champagne vinaigrette. Bowls start at $10.50. These are but the first; a new bowl will drop each month through April 16.

    Promised Land Dairy has partnered with marshmallow candy brand Peeps to offer a limited-time Peeps Sweet Marshmallow Milk, with a sweet marshmallow flavor. Available at Dallas grocery stores through April 20.

    Sheraton Dallas has appointed a new executive chef: Miguel Neira, who will oversee all aspects of the hotel’s food operations, including the banquet facilities and four distinctive food and beverage outlets including: Open Palette, Draft Sports Bar & Lounge, Open Mkt. Grab ‘n Go, and The Parlor. Born and raised in a small coastal town in Ecuador, Neira began his culinary career with Marriott in 2007 as Restaurant Chef at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort in St. Petersburg, Florida. He held leadership roles in Cleveland, Chicago and Tampa, and since 2021, has served as Executive Sous Chef at Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center.

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    Mexican 'vibe' restaurant from California to open in Deep Ellum Dallas

    Lauren Durie
    Dec 23, 2025 | 4:07 pm
    Mama Por Dios
    Mama Por Dios
    Mama Por Dios

    A buzzy concept from California is coming to Dallas: Mama Por Dios, a Mexican restaurant chain known for its vibe, will open its first location in Texas in Deep Ellum in the Epic development at 2525 Elm St., taking over the former La Neta space, which shuttered in May.

    According to a spokesperson, the restaurant will open in early to mid-January.

    Mama Por Dios was founded in Southern California in 2020 by chef Misael Guerrero, who famously got his start selling Mexican sushi out of his garage.

    Since those early days, he's gone on to form a restaurant empire called Emme Group, with concepts that include Los Amores de Julia, El Rincon de Los Dolidos, and Culichi Town, a lower-priced chain known for Sinaloa-style Mexican sushi & seafood, which has a local presence: It opened a location in Mesquite in 2022.

    Mama Por Dios — which translates to "Mother of God" — describes itself as modern Mexican, offering a unique blend of steakhouse, sushi bar, and seafood. The menu includes favorites like tacos and enchiladas, alongside luxe dishes like lobster with spaghetti, lobster enchiladas, and a surf & turf featuring a lobster tail balanced atop a skirt steak. Prices range from $18 for birria tacos to $48 for a bacon-wrapped filet mignon with mashed potatoes and asparagus.

    But they also have a showy side that includes flamboyant presentations such as the bacon-wrapped shrimp which come strung on clothespins; or the trompito al pastor, served on a personal spit, as well as servers who walk around with shots while dancing with patrons.

    There's a Gold Burger for $65 featuring Prime beef on a brioche bun garnished with 24k gold leaf, and a similarly gilded tomahawk steak for $400 that brings to mind the good old days of Salt Bae. Decor is swanky with low lighting, and there'll be a serious brunch offering on weekends.

    Cocktails such as the Al Agua Pato — served in a mini bathtub with a rubber ducky — are made for Instagram. They offer margarita and mezcalita flights with flavors such as mango, tamarindo, and strawberry, and intriguing sips like Carajillo, a Spanish cocktail with Licor 43, espresso, and 43 different fruit, citrus, aromatic, and herbal ingredients.

    There’s also a $20 per-person minimum spend, and the menu comes with a warning that everything is cooked to order — meaning some dishes may take 30 to 40 minutes. For many diners, waiting will surely be part of the experience.

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