New Restaurants, Coffee Shop and Buzzy Cocktail Bar Headed to Bishop Arts

This summer, Dallas’ Bishop Arts District is gaining a brand new outdoor courtyard oasis for coffee, bites, and booze. Two restaurants, a coffee shop, and a botanical bar will be situated on the corner of 308 N. Bishop Avenue.

The project comes from Exxir Hospitality, a family business owned by three siblings, who do a lot of redevelopments in the Bishop Arts area.

“We wanted to make sure to put in amazing concepts of our own,” says Jeremy Hargrove, COO of Exxir Hospitality. Hargrove says that these new restaurants will contribute to the growing lifestyle experience that Bishop Arts has.

This will be the first in-house hospitality project from Exxir. The area was built over old houses, but one house was maintained and revamped to house the coffee shop, Good Companions. This coffee shop and natural wine bar will be inside of an updated home from 1916. Besides coffee and pastries, there will also be a “boozy tea” happy hour.

On the same block, The Botanist is a plant-based cocktail bar, which will also serve bites. Paradiso is Italian inspired and will be the largest restaurant with a wood-fired pizza oven and grill. All dishes will be “fresh, light and local,” according to Hargrove. Sliding walls will open to the outside. All of the spots will have an indoor/outdoor feel.

A little further down the street at 250 N. Bishop Avenue, Tejas plans to be the first to open some time in June, followed by the other three.

“It will serve comfort food from both sides of the border,” Hargrove notes. There will be tacos, breakfast tacos and burgers. Homemade tortillas and hamburger buns will be made on-site.

Nick Hurry, formerly of Proof & Pantry, is on-board as executive chef. There will also be murals decorating the walls around the area by local artists.

“We want to embrace the community that live and work in the area,” Hargrove tells PaperCity. “We want locals to come here all of the time and also be a destination for other cities as well.”