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Reunion Tower, the blinking ball on the skyline of downtown Dallas, finally has a new tenant: Called Crown Block, it's a steak and seafood restaurant from Las Vegas group Blau + Associates, and according to a release, it'll open in spring 2023.Ģ. New steakhouse from Las Vegas team coming to Dallas' landmark Reunion Tower. Looking for the best things to do this weekend? Find that list here.ġ. Read on for the week's most popular headlines. Still to come from the What If group is Etta, a neighborhood restaurant theme with Italian food at a more affordable price, opening in Dallas' newly-christened East Quarter in 2022.Įditor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. They've already opened two restaurants in the National building in downtown Dallas: Monarch is their Italian-steakhouse concept, also quite pricey, which opened in the spring and Kessaku, a lavish sushi and cocktail lounge that opened in March, also, yes, a tad pricey. There's more: A section called Butcher's Reserve has big-ticket steaks such as an 8-ounce Texas Wagyu from A Bar Ranch for $125, and a 5-ounce Miyazaki Wagyu from Japan for $165.Īnd yet it still won't be the most expensive steakhouse in Dallas: That crown surely goes to Nusr-Et, from Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe, AKA Salt Bae, which opened in Uptown in March, and where a Wagyu rib cap coated in 24K gold is $1,500. A 28-day dry-aged bone-in rib eye is $83. Surf & turf, which combines the petit filet with a half lobster, is $89. The cheapest entree is $32 and from there it's up, up, and up. Overall, it's a pretty classic steakhouse menu: shrimp cocktail, crab legs, Wagyu beef carpaccio, hamachi crudo, Caesar, wedge salad (which they crown with two oversized onion rings), meatballs, bone marrow. Mostly everything is cooked on the wood-burning grill, from steaks to vegetables to seafood, and that includes their seafood tower, charred instead of raw, and available in three sizes: $74, or $154 for "pro", or $209 for "baller." See, they're fun. Their most famous menu item is the "I Don't Give a Tasting, which they say is not "drawn out torture," but instead a four-course chef selected dinner, for $200.Īlthough: If they really don't give a wouldn't they just spell out "fuck"? I feel like that's what someone who doesn't give a does.

Maple & Ash is an upscale wood-fired steakhouse concept, whose philosophy is to have fun but also observe a professionalism by going the extra mile to create the best experience possible. Also as part of that partnership, What If Syndicate is opening a location of Etta, its Italian restaurant concept, in a Hines building in downtown Houston, in 2022. What If signed a lease with Hines and Mitsui Fudosan America - part of a bigger partnership with Hines, the developer doing Maple Terrace.

Called Maple & Ash, it's the latest concept to come to Dallas from What If Syndicate, the Chicago-based hospitality group of restaurants that includes Monarch, Kessaku, and Etta.Īccording to a release, this will be a Texas flagship, and will be located at the corner of Maple Avenue and Wolf Street in Uptown - one of two restaurants penciled in for Maples Terrace, a mixed-use development, where it will open in early 2023. There's a new steakhouse coming to town, because if there's one thing Dallas lacks, it's steakhouses.
