These New DFW Restaurants All Had Grand Openings During The Pandemic

2020 has been a strange year for restaurants. While many have had to close for good because of the pandemic, some restaurateurs and small businesses owners are pushing ahead with new places to get a bite to eat.

Some of the restaurants listed below are old favorites that have expanded to other parts of the metroplex, while others are successful chains from other states moving to Texas for the first time. At least two restaurants have famous names attached to them: Rise + Thyme (Amanda Freitag from Food Network's Chopped) and Nusr-Et Steakhouse (Nusret Gokce aka Salt Bae).

Most restaurants are offering limited dine-in service or take-out. Check their websites or Facebook pages for hours and menus.

• Abu Omar Halal
• Barcelona Wine Bar
• Blue Cenote
• Cheba Hut Toasted Subs
• Chirps Chicken Shack
• El Mana
• Elm & Good
• El Patio Mex-Tex
• Enrique Tomas
• Frank Seoul
• Haystack Burgers and Barley
• Holy Crust Pizza
• Hudson House
• Invasion
• Jaxson
• K-Pop Ramen
• Krio
• La La Land Kind Cafe
• LaVui
• Lucky's Hot Chicken
• Mallow Box
• Mestizo: Tapas & Drinks
• Mexican Sugar
• Ngon Vietnamese Kitchen
• Nusr-Et Steakhouse
• Perry's Steakhouse & Grille
• Primo’s MX Kitchen + Lounge
• Provender Hall
• Rise + Thyme
• Salty Donut
• Sfereco
• Shug's Bagels
• Sketches of Spain
• Soul 2 Soul Southern Kitchen
• Standard Service
• State 28 Grill
• Tarantino’s Cicchetti Bar and Record Lounge
• Thunderbird Station
• Tri Tip Grill
• Trova Wine + Market
• Vector Brewing
• Velvet Taco
• WannaEat Seafood
• Wayward Coffee
• White Rhino Coffee
• Window Seat
• Xaman Cafe
• XOXO Dining Room
• Yardbird Southern Table & Bar
• Zalat Pizza

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