{"id":430472,"date":"2025-12-07T07:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/430472\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T07:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:11:35","slug":"where-to-drink-dallas-5-bars-to-celebrate-the-2025-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/430472\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to drink Dallas: 5 bars to celebrate the 2025 holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas has always liked the holidays but the festive fervor has significantly ramped up in 2025, with more holiday pop-up bars<\/a>, holiday ice rinks<\/a>, CultureMap ice rinks<\/a>, ice rink cafes<\/a>, and holiday lights<\/a> than ever before. Just about every bar has a special holiday drink. The December edition of Where to Drink\u2014 CultureMap’s monthly roundup of bars to try \u2014 includes three establishments offering a particularly big selection of special Santa-styled sips; plus two bars with notable happy hours.<\/p>\n

Here’s where to drink in December 2025:<\/p>\n

Cristina’s Fine Mexican Restaurant
<\/a>Local Tex-Mex chain has an amazingly generous new Happy Hour<\/a> featuring bites priced from $5-$7, and drinks starting at $4. We are talking chile con queso; queso fundido in a hot cast iron skillet with choice of chorizo, chicken fajita, or poblano & mushrooms; guacamole; nachos with taco meat or chicken; a half-quesadilla with sour cream, guacamole, and choice of fajita chicken or beef; mini chicken & cheese flautitas with queso & guacamole; and three mini tacos with choice of ground beef or chicken. It’s on at all 12 locations around DFW: Flower Mound, Fort Worth, Garland, Frisco, Trophy Club, Lewisville, Dallas, Plano, North Richland Hills, and McKinney, Sunday-Thursday all day and Friday 11 am-6 pm.<\/p>\n

Culinary Dropout<\/a>
Anti-foodie gastropub from Fox Restaurants Concepts (Flower Child, The Henry) which opened<\/a> in the Design District in 2024<\/a> has an enticing happy hour<\/a> with appealing bites and $8 cocktails, available in the bar and on the rooftop only. Bites include sushi rolls, soft pretzels with fondue, Wagyu pigs in a blanket, house-made potato chips with onion dip, and more, priced from $11 to $17. The must-get are their $10 frozen drinks in five varieties including Breakfast in Dublin with cinnamon & vanilla soaked whiskey, espresso liqueur, and a Guinness float.<\/p>\n

North Italia<\/a>
Fancy Italian restaurant chain is hosting “Bar North Pole”, a menu featuring six holiday cocktails and two zero-proof options. The cocktails are $15 each and include Sweater Weather, like a sangria with Pinot Grigio, lemon, and apple; Jingle Bell Rock with Aperol, blood orange, ginger beer, and prosecco; and Rudolph\u2019s Replacement with Lalo tequila, Disaronno, apple, and cinnamon. Zero-proof cocktails are $12 and include the White Elephant Gift with Seedlip non-alcoholic, coconut, and white chocolate; and Cocoa Claus with dark chocolate cr\u00e8me and marshmallows.<\/p>\n

Punch Bowl Social<\/a>
Deep Ellum eatertainment restaurant is embracing the holiday with a jolly cocktail menu priced from $12 to $14, that includes three drinks made with Jack Daniel\u2019s Old No. 7: a Gingerbread Old Fashioned, a Chai Old Fashioned with chai bitters, and a Baked Apple Old Fashioned with a baked apple reduction. The drink called Santa Pants is a collaboration with Matthew McConaughey\u2019s Pantalones tequila, combined with ginger beer, cranberry, and lime juice. The Ho Ho Ho has Don Q Cristal Rum, Irish cream, Owen\u2019s nitro-infused espresso, and cold foam.<\/p>\n

Tinseltown Tavern<\/a>
The holiday pop-up at The Stix Icehouse in McKinney returns and they’ve really outdone themselves with ever-more merry holiday-themed food and drink. Bites are $9 each and include meatballs with pesto, a turkey burger with fontina & blueberry-orange chutney, cake balls dipped in white chocolate served with dirt pudding and fried twinkie, and Mrs. Claus Cookie Kit featuring sugar cookies and icing ready to decorate. Drinks are $11-$13, all served in festive glassware, and include Crown Apple & Cinnamon Fizz, a spiced rum hot toddy, and a frozen coconut margarita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas has always liked the holidays but the festive fervor has significantly ramped up in 2025, with more…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":430473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,12080,1596,7709,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,17927],"class_list":{"0":"post-430472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cocktails","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-holidays","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-where-to-drink"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115677042051404631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}