Melios Bros Char Bar, the nearly 50-year-old restaurant on Dallas’ Greenville Avenue that closed in September 2019, will become a new restaurant.
An executive at the company that operates Whiskey Cake, Legacy Hall, Ida Claire, Sixty Vines and more says they plan to open an unnamed fast-casual at the iconic Lower Greenville address. Escape Hatch Dallas reported in November that it’s expected to be a sliders place called Son of a Butcher, which operates a stand at Legacy Hall in Plano.
It’ll be the second fast-casual parent company Front Burner Restaurants has operated, behind Velvet Taco, confirms president and chief operating officer Jack Gibbons. He wasn’t ready to say what kind of fast-casual would open on Greenville Avenue, but he mentioned a potential late summer 2020 debut.
The previous restaurant on Greenville Avenue, owned by four Greek brothers, was famous for its low-priced food and can’t-miss-it exterior. Gibbons says the signature “three peaks” shape of the roof will remain but that the restaurant will be gutted. (And as most Char Bar patrons would agree, the interior needed work.)
“We’re gutting it and going to leave the bones,” Gibbons says. “We think the bones are fun and interesting."
Gibbons also hopes that the new restaurant will “fit the community,” and we’ll report more on what that means when plans are revealed.
The unnamed restaurant will be at 2026 Greenville Ave., Dallas.
It’s been a busy month for Lower Greenville food news:
- The 26-year-old iconic Taco Cabana closed on Monday.
- HG Sply Co owner Elias Pope bought ownership in several more restaurants on Lower Greenville last year. He closed Feed Company in early January and plans to reopen it as a different restaurant soon.
- Flatbread Company, a pizzeria headquartered in the northeast, opens Thursday.
