Dallas diners should expect to see more restaurants putting up “closed” signs as we head toward the end of 2025.
The Texas Restaurant Association said restaurants in the state are facing an “industry slowdown” — a scary phrase for the chefs and owners trying to keep their restaurants afloat amid slumping consumer spending and increased prices for food. The whopping 48 recent restaurant closures in Dallas-Fort Worth include plenty of standalone restaurants, plus 18 Salad and Go drive-throughs and seven Starbucks stores.
“Our small business is dying,” wrote the owners of Cold Press Cafe on social media. They used a Halloween theme to announce the end of the family-run business on a tombstone.
Some restaurateurs in Dallas-Fort Worth are still reeling after a slow summer that didn’t crescendo with a usual uptick in business in the fall.
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“We were waiting for the summer to end and it didn’t,” Madison King told The Dallas Morning News’ Claire Ballor as King closed her Casa Linda restaurant, Be Home Soon. As deflated sales continued until October, she said, “I don’t know how people are supposed to survive that.”
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Below is a look at recently closed restaurants in Dallas-Fort Worth in fall 2025.
Ari’s Pantry in downtown Dallas
Ari Lowenstein, owner of Ari’s Pantry, is pictured in his Oak Cliff shop. His downtown Dallas grocer is closed for now.
Steve Hamm
Downtown Dallas building the Mercantile on Main experienced widespread flooding recently, displacing hundreds of apartment dwellers and forcing Ari’s Pantry on the ground floor to close for now. Ari’s Pantry is a grocer that sells produce, cheese, sandwiches and espresso. It isn’t clear what will happen next with Ari’s Pantry in downtown Dallas, though owner Ari Lowenstein continues to operate two other shops by the same name in Oak Cliff and Trinity Groves. The website says an Ari’s in Coppell is coming soon.
Ari’s Pantry is at 1800 Main St., Dallas. We’ll provide updates on Ari’s next steps.
Be Home Soon in East Dallas
Be Home Soon changed its menu regularly. Here’s the garlic lemongrass chicken quarter.
Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer
After a year of selling comfort food in East Dallas, Be Home Soon closed in late October 2025, Ballor reported. Alcohol sales are down, food costs are up and customers are struggling to find funds to eat in restaurants with regularity, King said.
“Every single person doing what we do has said this is the worst year they’ve ever had,” she told Ballor. “People can’t afford to go out to eat.”
Be Home Soon was at 9540 Garland Road, Dallas.
Bottled Blonde near Deep Ellum
Dallas bar and nightclub Bottled Blonde closed in spring 2025 — a surprise, since it was once the highest-grossing standalone bar in Texas. It’s run by Arizona parent company Evening Entertainment Group, the same team that runs Jelly Roll’s club Goodnight Nashville in Tennessee. The team announced Bottled Blonde would not reopen and shifted the Dallas bar into a “high-energy honky tonk” now called Palomino Ranch.
Bottled Blonde was at 505 N Good Latimer Expressway, Dallas. It’s been replaced by Palomino Ranch, which opened Oct. 9, 2025.
Cold Press Cafe in Colleyville
Colleyville juice bar Cold Press Cafe plans to close around Nov. 15, 2025, according to Facebook. The shop could close sooner if product runs out, notes Community Impact. Items are discounted.
Cold Press Cafe is at 1101 Cheek Sparger Road, Colleyville. Closing date is Nov. 15, 2025 or sooner.
Elaine’s Kitchen & Bar in South Dallas
Cedrice Bohanon, right, waits to order food from Matthew Graham, manager at Jamaican cuisine restaurant Elaine’s Kitchen. The restaurant closed after 35 years.
Angela Piazza / Staff Photographer
Jamaican restaurant Elaine’s, which sold curried goat soup and Rasta Pasta for decades, closed in mid-October 2025, Ballor reported. Its matriarch Elaine Campbell died in 2023, and her nephew Matthew Graham kept the restaurant open in her honor. Now it’s time to close — which Campbell would have wanted, her nephew said. The restaurant served as “a steady, nurturing presence in a pocket of Dallas that’s long been at the center of conversations about economic revitalization and food access,” Ballor wrote.
Elaine’s Kitchen was at 2717 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Dallas.
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Ella in North Dallas
Corn soup was on the menu at Ella, an American bistro in Dallas that closed in October 2025.
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Reconcepted restaurant Ella in Dallas’ Preston Hollow Village closed unexpectedly, according to D. The restaurant started as Chido Taco Lounge and became a more upscale Ella in 2025. It was open for fewer than four months.
Also closed: Ella’s upstairs tequila lounge, Customs.
Ella and Customs were at at 7949 Walnut Hill Lane, Dallas.
Ferris Wheelers Backyard and BBQ in the Dallas Design District
Entering the backyard at Ferris Wheelers in Dallas, customers pass a painting of Chuck Norris as they head toward the Ferris wheel. The restaurant and bar are closing as it becomes a special event and concert space.
Nathan Hunsinger / Staff Photographer
Barbecue backyard Ferris Wheelers was ahead of its time, serving drinks and food in the Dallas Design District in 2017 before it boomed as a dining destination. The restaurant is closed as of early November 2025, but the backyard bar will reopen open for a few more days. Then, it will be used for concerts and special events only. Annette Marin and Matthew Harber, of the D-FW-based event company Spune Productions, are taking over the space.
The campy barbecue restaurant lived up to its name, as it had an actual Ferris wheel in the backyard.
Ferris Wheelers Backyard and BBQ was at 1950 Market Center Blvd., Dallas. More to come on what’s next here.
Kona Grill in Plano
Sushi chain Kona Grill closed in Plano in June 2025, according to CI. The restaurant was known for it happy hour, which included appetizers for as low as $3.
Kona Grill was at 5973 W. Parker Road, Plano.
Maple Street Biscuit Co. in Dallas, Frisco, Keller, McKinney and Wylie
All but one location of Maple Street Biscuit Co. in Dallas-Fort Worth have closed. The breakfast brand has been owned by Cracker Barrel since 2019, according to Fast Company, and following the “botched logo redesign” heard ‘round the world, the company announced it would close 14 Maple Street Biscuit restaurants.
Seven of those were in Texas, with six in Dallas-Fort Worth. One Maple Street Biscuit remains open in North Texas, in Mansfield.
Maple Street Biscuit Co. restaurants closed in Dallas, Frisco, Keller, Wylie and McKinney. Still open: a shop at 1660 E. Broad St. Mansfield.
Meyboom Brasserie on Dallas’ Lowest Greenville
Owner Jeff Karetnick pours Kwak Pale Ale into a glass at Meyboom Brasserie in 2022. It closed in 2025.
Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer
Belgian beer bar Meyboom Brasserie closed in late August 2025. The corner space was right in the middle of the action on Dallas’ Greenville Avenue, but the bar owners struggled to find a foothold on the block. Meyboom had a good beer list and was noted as one of Dallas’ 100 best bars from the Dallas Observer.
Meyboom Brasserie was at 2100 Greenville Ave., Dallas.
Nikki Greek Bistro and Lounge near Dallas’ Devonshire
Although the sit-down Greek restaurant in its place is gone, replacement bar The Devonshire Club will still have some Greek dishes, the owners said. Here’s the whipped feta at coming-soon Devonshire Club in Dallas.
Dan Padgett
Gone is the upscale Greek restaurant on W. Lovers Lane, near the Dallas North Tollway. Owners Lisa and Elia “Tom” Georgalis are making a left turn, converting the space to a more casual bar and lounge called The Devonshire Club. The Georgalises said customers want a place to drink, snack and play shuffleboard or darts.
The Devonshire Club is located at 5757 W. Lovers Lane, Suite 101, Dallas. It opens Nov. 14, 2025, and will be open Tuesday through Sunday.
Origin Kitchen + Bar in Uptown Dallas
Healthful restaurant Origin closed Oct. 26, 2025, after 13 years in Uptown Dallas. The restaurant was created for people who cared about where their food came from: “food that was sourced well, prepared with care and made people feel good long before ‘seed oil free’ was cool,” the owners wrote in a goodbye note on social media. Owners Jess and Russell Aldredge chose not to renew the lease, saying their focus is on other businesses and their kids.
Origin Kitchen + Bar was at 4438 McKinney Ave., Dallas.
Rodeo Dallas in Deep Ellum
Rodeo Dallas is a nightclub in Deep Ellum that opened in 2023.
Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer
For several weeks, News columnist Robert Wilonsky chronicled Rodeo Dallas’ “atmosphere of chaos,” as described by landlord Asana’s co-counsel Ben Riemer. A nearby property owner sued the Elm Street bar, arguing it was a dangerous place with “egregious” activities that included “unfettered violence, drug use, displays of firearms, underage drinking” and more.
The venue has been closed under a Dallas County District Court judge’s order since August 2025. In early October 2025, a state appeals court denied Rodeo Dallas’ emergency request to reopen, and the bar is still appealing the closure, court records show.
Rodeo Dallas is at 2724 Elm St., Dallas. Closed for now.
Salad and Go: 18 locations in Dallas-Fort Worth
Salad and Go, which is based in Coppell, announced in September 2025 that it would close 41 of its drive-throughs. That number includes all restaurants in Houston, Austin and San Antonio, plus 18 in Dallas-Fort Worth. “We continue to believe in the Texas market and its long-term potential,” CEO Mike Tattersfield said. Closing dozens of restaurants will “strengthen” the others, he said.
Find the list of 18 Salad and Go closures here. They are located in Dallas, Fort Worth, Prosper, Rockwall, Plano, Flower Mound, Forney and more.
Another two-dozen Salad and Go drive-throughs remain open in North Texas and Waco. Find that list here.
Society Bakery and Tea Room Kitchen in East Dallas
In this 2011 file photo, Society Bakery’s owner displays cupcakes piped high with frosting. Society moved from Greenville Avenue to Skillman Street in East Dallas, then closed.
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Longtime East Dallas sweets shop Society Bakery closed in October 2025, as reported by CultureMap. The Skillman Street space is already cleared out, with “for lease” signs on the windows, The Advocate noted. The bakery got its start on Greenville Avenue. Co-owner Roshi Muns moved Society in 2024, adding a tea room. It isn’t clear why Society Bakery and its Tea Room closed.
Society Bakery and Tea Room were at 1926 Skillman St., Dallas.
Spurlock’s Malt Shop in Anna
Spurlock’s Malt Shop
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“It’s not goodbye, it’s see you later,” wrote the family behind Spurlock’s Malt Shop in Anna. The burger-and-a-milkshake shop owners told CultureMap they were forced to close because the landlord sold the building. The retro restaurant had been open since the 1950s. Its last day was Nov. 1, 2025.
In a series of heartfelt Facebook posts, the owners wrote that they “loved every minute of serving this community — laughing with y’all and watching families (including ours) grow inside these pink walls.”
Spurlock’s Malt Shop was at 504 N. Powell Parkway, Anna. More to come if the shop relocates.
Starbucks: 7 locations in Dallas-Fort Worth
Coffee giant Starbucks is closing hundreds of stores by the end of 2025. At least seven of those are in Dallas-Fort Worth — and let us know if you hear of others. So far, these Starbucks stores closed in fall 2025 in North Texas:
The stores Starbucks executives chose to close were not financially viable, CEO Brian Niccol said in a news statement.
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- 2801 Allen St. in Uptown Dallas
- 2401 Victory Park Lane in Dallas’ Victory Park
- 6123 Greenville Ave. in East Dallas, near Caruth Haven Lane
- 5331 E. Mockingbird Lane in Dallas’ Mockingbird Station
- 215 Commerce St. in downtown Fort Worth
- 710 W. Renner Road, near Custer, in Richardson
- 1101 W. Parker Road, near Alma Drive, in Plano
Starbucks has many other locations in Dallas-Fort Worth. Find one here.
Taco Heads in Fort Worth
Taco Heads is closing in one Fort Worth neighborhood after 10 years. “It’s hard to put into words what these years have meant to us — the laughter, the celebrations, the familiar faces who became friends, and the community that supported us every step of the way,” the owners wrote on Instagram. Taco Heads was sold to the team that runs Jakes Burgers, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Plans call for a remodel and a “new chapter” at this location, though more is not known yet.
Taco Heads remains open in the Fort Worth Stockyards.
Taco Heads was at 1812 Montgomery St., Fort Worth.
Voodoo Brewing Co. in downtown Plano
The owners of Voodoo Brewing Co. in East Plano announced they would be closing the shop in late September 2025. “This is not the way we imagined this chapter ending, but despite pouring everything we had into this brewpub, we simply cannot continue,” they wrote on Instagram. It was part of a Pennsylvania-born brand that expanded into North Texas in 2023, first in Grand Prairie. The company has two remaining Texas breweries, in Lewisville and Prosper.
Voodoo Brewing Co. was at 1001 14th St., Plano.
Yolk in Dallas’ Preston Center
Breakfast and brunch spot Yolk has closed in Preston Center because of a “major redo,” The News reported, that will include a 17-story apartment tower and 12-story office building. As of early November 2025, the restaurant was emptied out, doors locked. The coming-soon development will likely affect Yolk’s neighbors.
Yolk was at 8315 Westchester Drive, Dallas.