

Seattle is packed with fine dining restaurants, and more seem to spring up every week.This iconic late-night pastrami spot has a huge patio where you can gather all your friends around a spread of thick pastrami sandwiches, deeply smoked brisket, and sides that range from tacos to matzo ball soup. Cocktail Bar, Restaurant Bar, RestaurantIf you want to do something low-key and unexpected, have your birthday get-together at Johnny's. You can boogie to DJs and grab killer cocktails afterwards too. Settle down amongst the neon lights and velvet sofas to enjoy the stars of the show: Pacific rock oysters. What We Like: Excellent Service.If you're looking to finish off your birthday dinner in Melbourne with a stiff one, check out rooftop restaurant Fargo and Co. For those that are lucky enough to make a reservation in 2021 be on the lookout for the bonito, tamarillo, palm heart, wasabi and the margra lamb, andean gold, treviso, and black olive. The uptown steakhouse will be Maple & Ash’s third location, joining the original in Chicago and a satellite in Scottsdale, Arizona.Firedoor remains in the upper echelons as one of the best restaurants in Sydney thanks to a menu that is created daily. (Gant is also the the executive chef of Monarch and Kessaku.) The food menu includes an array of prime steaks, raw/chilled/cooked seafood, and fancy desserts, all overseen by two-Michelin-star Chef Danny Grant.

And their kitchens are centered around a wood-fueled fire, which handles the bulk of the cooking. Maple & Ash sets itself apart from other steakhouses in a number of ways. In addition to Maple & Ash, the company also owns a Monarch, a modern chophouse with Italian flair, and Kessaku, a sushi lounge both sit atop The National building in downtown. What If Syndicate is convinced it knows what Dallas wants and needs. While it’s way too early to predict an opening date, Pisor told me at the opening of Monarch that the restaurant is currently slated to debut 18 months from now – so deep into next year.

The location for the new Maple & Ash? David Pisor, a partner of Chicago-based restaurant group What If Syndicate, says they’ve locked in a site at the corner of Wolf Street and Maple Avenue where they’ll build something new from the ground up. The best in town are nearly back to pre-Covid sales numbers (that’s as high as $18 million a year) – and that’s without the typical business travelers who used to spend lavishly on their unbridled expense accounts. Yeah, I know you think Dallas can’t support another premium steakhouse. The restaurant will be located close to Nick and Sam’s, the perennially popular Dallas steakhouse now celebrating its 20th anniversary in Uptown. High-end Chicago steakhouse Maple & Ash plans to open in Dallas, EscapeHatch has confirmed.
