Hide

Hide sits in Deep Ellum, and the room reads exactly the way the Dallas dining establishment expects a cocktail bar / modern american kitchen at this address to read — considered, particular, and exact about the things it cares about. Speakeasy bar that takes both glassware and bar food seriously.

The cooking turns on signatures the Dallas regulars order without looking at the menu: Charcuterie, Steak Tartare, and Smoked Old Fashioned. The kitchen runs at the $$$ register, with a wine programme that is either deep where the room is loud and tight where the room is quiet, and a service floor that has clearly worked at this register before.

For a first date dinner in Dallas, this is one of the addresses you should already know about. Reservations skew hard; dress is cocktail. The averaged Food/Ambience/Value line sits at 8.9/10 — high enough to mean the room is doing more right than wrong, calibrated against the sharpest other tables in the city.

Speakeasy bar that takes both glassware and bar food seriously. For a deeper read on this occasion across other cities, the First Date guide is the canonical reference.