Most Exciting Dallas-Fort Worth Restaurant Openings, Summer 2025
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Summer days are here, and the living is easy in the Metroplex. This season will bring some big, exciting restaurants to life, from well-known and deeply respected hospitality groups, including new projects from the owners of Namo and James Beard-nominated Bar Collette, Duro Hospitality, an outpost of an Eater Award-winning Dallas restaurant in Fort Worth, and a famous New York eatery coming to our suburbs. On top of that, we'll get a fine dining Mediterranean restaurant, which will be peerless in the city.
Here's what is coming to Dallas this summer.
This fine dining restaurant from Namo and Bar Colette owners Brandon and Henry Cohanim, in collaboration with chef Christophe De Lellis of the Michelin-starred Joël Robuchon in Las Vegas, will open at the increasingly popular Uptown building, the Quad. The menu will feature a French style with a touch of Italian influence. The collaboration is arguably the most anticipated opening for Dallas of the entire year and was expected to open at the end of May. Construction delays have pushed it to the end of June or early July.
After opening Chumley House in Fort Worth at the end of 2024, Duro Hospitality Group's Chas Martin assured Eater Dallas that its next project, which will open in the former Homewood space on Oak Lawn Avenue, would not be a rush job. It turns out they've needed less time than even Martin imagined, and the group will open a Japanese-influenced restaurant in mid- to late summer. Duro was not ready to share the name yet, but we do know the menu will feature sushi, among other dishes.
The top Palestinian restaurant in New York City will open an outpost in Richardson sometime this summer. Owner Abdul Elenani told Eater Dallas he came to the suburban city to help a friend open a restaurant, saw a piece of real estate he liked, and snapped it up. His plans should have Ayat's Texas location open by August, where it will serve dishes like msakhan (fresh taboon bread with sauteed onions, sumac, pine nuts, and a half chicken), fattat jaj (six-layer dish with roasted chicken, rice, chickpeas, mint yogurt, crispy pita, garlic sauce, and slivered almonds), Mansaf (bone-in lamb chunks in a stew with fermented yogurt sauce served over a bed of fresh sajj bread and rice), and more.
Restaurateur Yaser Khalaf, known for Darna in Legacy West and Baboush in West Village, and his son, Mak, are teaming up to open a fine dining Mediterranean restaurant in Far North Dallas. Zon Zon is a nickname for Khalaf's youngest daughter, Zaina. A press agent tells Eater Dallas to expect an intimate space with an open kitchen, with a menu offering refined Mediterranean dishes.
In Fort Worth, Headington Companies will open an outpost of Mirador, a 2024 Eater Awards Winner in Dallas for Best Tea Service, as Café Mirador inside a new Forty Five Ten boutique, mirroring the Downtown Dallas setup. It will be smaller, at 1,000 square feet — that's one-third the size of the already intimate Dallas space. It will serve some guest favorites from Dallas, including ahi tuna cornettes, a lobster roll, farro bowl, and chicken bites, along with weekend brunch when the menu swings to dishes like salmon gravlax with caviar, quiche Florentine, and eggs Benny. Executive chef Travis Wyatt will oversee the menu at both locations. Another note of interest: this location will feature artwork by German fashion photographer Juergen Teller. See More: Dallas Restaurant News
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