Rodeo Goat burger joint is now open in East Dallas, in old Highland Park Cafeteria spot

Update: This story was updated July 14, 2022 to reflect opening dates.

Freewheeling burger joint Rodeo Goat opened July 14, 2022, in East Dallas in Casa Linda Plaza. Another Rodeo Goat is planned for Frisco soon, near Preston Road and Gaylord Parkway.

Rodeo Goat currently has six other restaurants: in the Dallas Design District, Fort Worth, Plano, Irving, Rockwall and Houston. The burger joint falls in line among an amusing list of high-flying restaurants from owner Shannon Wynne that includes Meddlesome Moth in the Dallas Design District; 12 Flying Saucer beer bars, and 11 Flying Fish restaurants.

Wynne says it’s a good time for his burger joint to move into new North Texas neighborhoods even though he was wary about both: Frisco is way up there, he says; and East Dallas was off his radar since he lives west of Central Expressway.

“A lot of people are unaware that there’s this beautiful part of Dallas that has romantic architecture, that is very unto itself,” he says of East Dallas.

The Frisco restaurant will take the place of an old Macaroni Grill. It’ll be the biggest Rodeo Goat so far.

The East Dallas restaurant is moving into Highland Park Cafeteria. CultureMap reported the news first.

Rodeo Goat has a history of putting local celebrities’ names on burgers. Our own Dallas Morning News Texas Rangers writer Evan Grant will be back on all Rodeo Goat menus during the World Series run, for instance.

Wynne is on the lookout for Frisco celebrities to name burgers after. In East Dallas, the restaurant will add a thriller: the Murder Burger by Skip Hollandsworth, a longtime writer at Texas Monthly who specializes in crime. Hollandsworth is an East Dallasite.

Wynne wouldn’t divulge what’s on his burger. “It’s bloody,” he says.

Former Mayor Mike Rawlings and the Lakewood Country Club also appear on the Casa Linda menu. 

Rodeo Goat opened July 14, 2022 at 1200 N. Buckner Blvd. (in Casa Linda), Dallas. Rodeo Goat at 3111 Preston Road (near Gaylord Parkway), Frisco, is expected to open in August 2022.

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