Gastro Pub in Dallas

Image: Bar Louie (The Shops at Park Lane)

8166 Park Lane, Suite C310 Northeast Dallas

469-638-8050

Gastro Pub

Founded in 1990, Bar Louie has five locations throughout DFW and over 70 across the U.S. A friendly neighborhood gastropub, Bar Louie offers strong cocktails, chef-inspired food and spot-on service all in a comfortable atmosphere where you’re encouraged to kick back and hang out. The menu has variety of bar bites, craft burgers, flatbreads, thick sandwiches, plus hefty salads and mains. Be sure to check out their rotating Cocktail For A Cause, where a portion of the proceeds from each drink sold benefits a charitable organization.

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Bowl & Barrel

8084 Park Lane Northeast Dallas

214-363-2695

Gastro Pub, Bars and Clubs, Sports and Recreation, Recommended, Readers' Choice

Go ahead. Play with your food. Dallas’s newest modern American tavern is designed to delight the most discerning foodies and beer connoisseurs — while offering a bowling experience unparalleled in the DFW Metroplex. Boutique bowling wouldn’t be complete without an exceptional dining experience. Bowl & Barrel serves up an impressive selection of appetizers, entrées, salads and desserts that are sure to strike your fancy.

4 articles

British Beverage Company (BBC)

2800 Routh St. Downtown/Deep Ellum

214-922-8220

Gastro Pub, Bars and Clubs, Performing Arts Venues, Menu

A sleek new bar that hopes to serve as Uptown’s go-to brew house is what the locals have coined “BBC.” With a massive draft beer setup, there are more than 52 reasons to visit The British Beverage Company, not to mention the place’s impressive collection of bottled beers. The sleek interior is only half as impressive as the outdoor courtyard, which features multiple fire pits and comfortable seating. Although it doesn’t have the greatest happy hour deals, the bar makes up for it with its live acoustic music three nights a week.

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Cook Hall

2440 Victory Park Lanene Uptown/Oak Lawn

214-397-4111

American, Gastro Pub, Menu

Craft & Growler

3601 Parry Ave. Oak Cliff/South Dallas

214-821-1122

Gastro Pub, Brewery, Best Of, Slideshow

Officially open in November of 2012, Craft & Growler's warm mahogany interior initially seems better suited for a New England setting, although the beer list proves otherwise. The bar's 30 taps cover a diverse selection of craft beers, with a focus on Texas and Dallas-area microbrews. Apart from an incredibly knowledgeable and friendly staff of beer snobs, the cozy bar offers a unique service: You can choose from a wide selection of beer growlers, or bring your own growler and fill it with any of the tap beers to enjoy at home. A haven for beer-lovers of every sort, Craft & Growler is the sort of place that Hemingway would have frequented to finish a novel.

19 articles

Henderson Tap House

2323 N Henderson Ave Ste 101-102 Uptown/Oak Lawn

214-304-0714

American, Gastro Pub, Pizza

Boasting a vibrant nightlife with live entertainment, Legendary Happy Hour Parties, a American Style Pub infused Menu, and Late Night Brick Oven Pizzas, Henderson Tap House also boasts a huge selection of local and craft beers, your favorite local spirits, and our housemade speciality cocktails. Whether you stop by for a drink, dinner, or to let loose and party, you are always welcome at Tap House! Come visit our extra-large covered patio and our 7000 sq. ft. sports bar with a vast amount of TV's to watch your favorite team. Henderson Tap House is a full-service sports bar and restaurant located at 2323 N. Henderson Ave in Dallas, Texas. We offer a full lunch and dinner menu, as well as an assortment of daily food and drink specials. Table seating and private party offerings are available. For more information please contact us at heatherf@hendersontaphouse.com.

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Izkina

2801 Elm St. Fair Park

Gastro Pub, Bistro, Recommended

When Izkina opened in Deep Ellum Youth Hostel, chef Joel Orsini was in the kitchen creating a menu of Spanish tapas that we loved. In 2019, though, Orsini left and Izkina got a new name — Booty's — and a menu focusing on "international street food." The food was still good, last time our critic was there, but different. Check out our stories on the rebranding for more details.

5 articles

Lion and Crown Pub

5001 Addison Circle Addison

972-503-5001

English, Gastro Pub, Music Venues

The Lion & Crown is an English style pub. Come have a drink from our wide selection of craft beers on tap, one of our fine wines, or stay for lunch and dinner. Watch the game on one of our many large flat screen T.V’s. Our patio is second to none for enjoying a nice night or you can enjoy the cozy atmosphere next to our fireplace. We have different specials every day and we feature live music every Friday and Saturday. Easy to find in the heart of Addison Circle, right next to the big blue statue.

Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge

1311 Lipscomb St. Fort Worth

817-926-0968

Burgers, Gastro Pub, Southwestern, Bars and Clubs, Music Venues, Performing Arts Venues

Young Fort Worth professionals and show-goers alike flock to Live Oak Music Hall and Lounge for the bar’s wide selection of craft beers and for its large, theater-style stage. Modern décor, roomy booths and track lighting greet you on one half of the building, while the stage’s giant red curtains slide open for live music and accentuate the 20-foot ceilings on the other side. A huge rooftop patio — more than 1,000 square feet — overlooks the Fort Worth skyline, with surround-sound speakers carrying a live feed of the bands performing inside.

7 articles

The Lot

7530 E. Grand Ave. East Dallas & Lakewood

214-321-1990

Gastro Pub, Restaurants, Recommended, Best Of

The East Dallas restaurant and beer garden is the product of some serious teamwork; restauranteur John McBride (El Fenix), food consultant Sharon Hage and designer Hatsumi Kuzuu (Tei An, FT33 and Sissy's Southern Kitchen & Bar) have joined forces on the culinary project. The LOT boasts a spacious dining room and bar and an equally large outdoor patio; the pool that once occupied the Backyard Beach Bar's has been filled in with gravel and lined with wooden picnic tables and canopies. The backyard is home to two sand-filled playgrounds; one for kids and another for adults (who are young at heart and/or have taken serious advantage of the beer garden). The menu spans a wide variety of fare, most of which falls in the $7-$10 range. There is also a juice bar serving seasonal juices for $6 each (spirits can be added for an additional $2). Other libations include the Lakewood lemonade (Maker's Mark, lemonade, ginger and mint for $7), East Dallas iced tea (Captain Morgan spiced rum, peach schnapps and house-brewed iced tea for $7) and the White Rock martini (Pinnacle berry vodka, triple sec and cranberry juice).

12 articles

Meddlesome Moth

1621 Oak Lawn Ave. Downtown/Deep Ellum

214-628-7900

American, Gastro Pub, Bars and Clubs, Recommended, Slideshow

Keith Schlabs and Shannon Wynne, the team behind the Flying Saucer craft-beer chain, have upped their suds game. In 2010, they opened this gastropub with 40 rotating drafts, two cask ales and more than 85 bottles, all of which can be expertly paired with chef Chad Kelley's high-end pub grub. The restaurant is also the sight of frequent beer dinners, for which craft-beer brewmasters are brought in to showcase that beer and food can be matched like wine and food, often with surprising results. Meddlesome Moth is a beer connoisseur's mecca. However, it's not a solemn temple to beer, stained-glass windows notwithstanding. Rich Brazilian wood walls, a pewter-top bar and an earth-tone palette give it a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere. Because when you drink beer, you want to kick back, not sip in a stuffy setting.

85 articles

Nova

1417 W. Davis St. Oak Cliff/South Dallas

214-484-7123

Gastro Pub, Diner, Bars and Clubs, Critics' Pick, Best Of, Slideshow

The diner on West Davis Street has been a bustling favorite of Oak Cliff residents since 2010. It’s so casual that it feels like a relief from the rest of the restaurant world. Honestly, isn’t it nice to eat at a place where the employees aren’t told to wear uniforms?

13 articles

Public School 214

3700 McKinney Ave. Uptown/Oak Lawn

214-599-6234

Gastro Pub, Best Of

Going to school was never fun, but Public School 214 has somehow found a way to make your classroom nostalgia perfectly charming. From the school-themed decor, including maps, globes and chalkboards, to the menu that is styled just like your old black-and-white composition book, Public School 214 is true to its theme without being tacky. As for the menu, it’s anything but elementary -- from the bar snacks to swankier entrées, there are plenty of foodie-approved dishes here to indulge in. The cocktail menu is comprehensive and reasonably cheap in this new world of fancy dranks. You’re going to get addicted to the bacon-cheddar tots with sriracha ketchup, and you should probably just go ahead and add an extra 20 minutes to your cardio routine to compensate for the buckets of them you’re going to consume.

5 articles

Republic Texas Tavern

12300 Inwood Rd. North Dallas

972-385-6004

American, Comfort Foods, Gastro Pub

Scotch & Sausage

2808 Oak Lawn Ave. Uptown/Oak Lawn

469-802-6753

Gastro Pub, Grill, Recommended

One thing is for certain, there’s nothing like Scotch and Sausage anywhere else in Oak Lawn. Actually, there’s nothing like this place in all of Dallas. Picture a hipster beer garden filled with beer (of course) and then sausages made from a whole zoo’s worth of animals. There are french fries, too, but these aren’t you’re every day spuds. Each serving is fried three times, which sounds like a gimmick but produces chips that are exceptional. The exteriors have a crunch that rivals potato chips, while the insides are a lot like mashed potatoes. As for the beer they’ve got everything from local craft beer, to some of the big names you see haunting Oktoberfests everywhere. And just like you’d hoped in the beer garden of your dreams it’s served in a massive one-liter mug.

6 articles

Small Brewpub

333 W. Jefferson Blvd. Oak Cliff/South Dallas

972-863-1594

Gastro Pub, Brewery, Recommended, Best Of

This is not your average brewpub, and the changes reach far beyond producing pints of beer that you actually want to drink. Small turns out plates of food that look like they belong in a Stephan Pyles restaurant and then somehow manages to charge you as little as 10 bucks for them. Misti Norris is in the kitchen, and her time at FT33 is evident in plates that involve several components and then several garnishes more. While these plates sometimes get a little crazy, there’s enough beautiful cooking here to warrant experimentation. A great place to start is with any of the pasta dishes. Don’t miss the tagliarini dressed in a buttery sauce and covered with a paper-thin shroud of pancetta. Don’t miss the booze either. The peppercorn pilsner seems destined for awards and the cocktail program provides an elevated take on classic drinks without the fussiness you find at many Dallas cocktail bars.

33 articles

Wheelhouse

1617 Hi Line Dr. Uptown/Oak Lawn

Gastro Pub, American, Best Of

4 articles

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