{"id":679086,"date":"2026-03-24T20:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/679086\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:15:18","slug":"i-just-cant-take-it-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/679086\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I just can\u2019t take it anymore\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perch Bistro and Bar, an Italian restaurant on Dallas\u2019 Inwood Road<\/a>, is slated to close April 4, 2026, the day before Easter.<\/p>\n

Owner Lynae Fearing said the 2-year-old restaurant struggled to find enough regular customers to stay open.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just can\u2019t take it anymore,\u201d she said. The restaurant near Dallas Love Field hasn\u2019t been profitable since it opened.<\/p>\n

Fearing owns two neighboring restaurants near Perch: Shinsei and Lovers Seafood and Market. Shinsei has been a fan favorite of Devonshire and Bluffview neighbors dating back as far as the late 2000s, when its then-chef Casey Thompson was a contestant on Top Chef. <\/p>\n

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Years later, when Lovers Seafood opened, it took time to earn a following, Fearing said. She gave her pizza and pasta shop Perch the same runway.<\/p>\n

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Dallas restaurateur Lynae Fearing owns Perch, Shinsei and Lovers Seafood and Market.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI just kept thinking, \u2018This is what happened with Lovers. I just need to give it more time.\u2019 But I can\u2019t keep investing in it. It\u2019s taking too long,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Unlike the many restaurant closures<\/a> The Dallas Morning News has covered in the past few months, Perch did not suffer from surging ingredient prices or from rent woes, its owner said. Customers didn\u2019t seem to complain about costs, either, Fearing said. <\/p>\n

Specials like $7 martinis on \u201cTini Tuesday\u201d and half-price bottles of wine on Wednesdays enticed some customers, but not enough.<\/p>\n

Perch just needed more business, Fearing said.<\/p>\n

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The Dip Dip Dip comes with choice of three: pimento cheese, caramelized onion dip, whipped ricotta and honey, eggplant caponata and pesto hummus<\/p>\n

Azul Sordo \/ Special Contributor<\/p>\n

Regulars liked its simple, shareable appetizers, like the trio of appetizers called Dip Dip Dip and the fried green tomatoes. Pizzas and pastas were comforting, like the prosciutto-and-pesto pie and a bowl of Bolognese pappardelle.<\/p>\n

The address has some deep Dallas restaurant history as the long-ago Riviera, once called \u201cone of the prettiest, most romantic settings in Dallas\u201d in a 2003 restaurant review. This space later became George and Fireside Pies, among others. Before Perch, this spot was Dea, an Italian restaurant Fearing owned with a former business partner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fearing said she\u2019ll invite all of Perch\u2019s employees to work at the other restaurants.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to miss the people: my work family,\u201d Fearing said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m really going to miss the customers. And I\u2019m going to miss the food and the atmosphere. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to miss everything about it. And that\u2019s why I hung on for so long. It\u2019s hard to let it go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perch Bistro and Bar is at 7709 Inwood Road, Dallas. Dinner only. Open through dinner service on April 4, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perch Bistro and Bar, an Italian restaurant on Dallas\u2019 Inwood Road, is slated to close April 4, 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":679087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,11213,18466,9733,9063,988,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,48919,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-679086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-italian-food","11":"tag-love-field","12":"tag-restaurant-news","13":"tag-restaurant-openings","14":"tag-restaurants","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-university-park","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116285992389913792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679086","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=679086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}