These 10 Dallas bars are nominated for 2024 Tastemaker Awards bar of the 12 months

Raise your glass for the 2024 CultureMap Tastemaker Awards, our annual celebration honoring the most effective in Dallas foods and drinks, the place we nominate {industry} execs in awards classes like Best Bar.

Each 12 months, we honor nominees with a particular editorial collection earlier than an awards ceremony, the place they’re voted on by a panel of previous winners and culinary consultants.

This 12 months, the ceremony might be held May 16 on the Fashion Industry Gallery, and tickets are on sale now. There’s a restricted variety of low cost Early Bird tickets for $60 or $99 for VIP (consists of early entry to the occasion, valet, and a devoted bar). Prices improve March 31.

Contenders throughout the meals & beverage {industry} have been nominated within the following classes: Restaurant of the Year, Chef of the Year, Bar of the Year, Pastry Chef, Bartender, Best Wine Program, Best Patio, and Best New Restaurant, the one class decided by readers in a bracket-style on-line match.

We’ve already toasted nominees for Rising Star Chef and Neighborhood Restaurant, and now we’re overlaying Bar of the Year: the ten bars that impressed most previously 12 months.

These are the nominees:

Columbian Country Club
Elegant martini lounge in east Dallas is impressed by the unique Columbian Country Club, a historic Jewish nation membership on Main Street in downtown Dallas that closed in 2004 after 100 years. The newcomer imitates the essence of New York City’s golden period with an old-world glamor, piano participant, and a wide range of martinis with flavors like apple and espresso. The membership additionally options an intensive number of champagne, crimson wine, and white wine, by the glass or bottle.

Double D’s
Design District lounge is a partnership between This and That Hospitality (High Fives, The Whip, Tiny Victories, Alice, Dibs on Victory, Ferris Wheelers) and bar professional Jermey Elliott, of Parliament and Milkshake Concepts fame (and nominated for Best Bartender in 2023). The bar has a ’70s aesthetic, homey and welcoming, with plenty of wooden and neon and vegetation. Drinks menu options cocktails on draft, plus signatures like Good Morning Dallas (patron, DD’s espresso combine, vanilla agave, and orange).

Grapevine Bar
Beloved dive bar based in 1996 as a spot for everybody, from promenade queens to pull queens relocated in 2023, however went to nice lengths to recreate the informal, worn-in environment of the unique. The new location has a rooftop deck, basketball court docket, patio, and happy-hour specials on drinks corresponding to their ultra-potent Tangaritas, frozen margarita blended with Tang. This is their second Tastemaker nomination, following a nomination for Best Bar in 2023.

LadyLove Lounge and Sound
Bishop Arts lounge has a hip environment with partitions lined with vinyl records and record-listening nights the place you "BYOV," V for vinyl. It’s from David Grover and Kate Siamro, the similar group who personal Spinster Records, the vinyl file retailer in Bishop Arts. Meant primarily as a listening lounge impressed by the ‘70s, their menu is concise, with a small number of cocktails and tapas-style bites.

Revelers Hall
New Orleans-style bar and music venue in Bishop Arts is ideal for drinks and dancing. The dance ground options music from all genres however particularly jazz. If your dancing works up an urge for food, they’ve acquired a small menu of flatbreads, cheese & charcuterie boards, and dips.

Ruins
Equal elements bar/restaurant and dwell music venue, Ruins in Deep Ellum is thought for its huge character, with colorfully morbid artwork, a big patio, and pleasant workers. The menu celebrates Mexican agave spirits and Latin American brandies with tropical cocktails, whereas the meals spotlights Mexican delicacies with Oaxacan twists, plus dishes from throughout Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

Tina’s Continental
Intimate retro-inspired bar with a automobile theme within the historic Continental Gin Building in Deep Ellum is the place to go for a comfortable vibe and an excellent martini. The menu options six martinis in addition to an choice for purchasers to build-their-own, plus different basic cocktails. This spot may be higher for a comfortable date night time over an enormous ladies night time out — at merely 800 sq. ft, it seats simply over 40 individuals.

Tiny Victories
Neighborhood lounge from hospitality group This & That Co. (High Fives, The Whip, Tiny Victories, Alice, Dibs on Victory, Ferris Wheelers) provides well-crafted cocktails at a not-outrageous value, generally tongue-in-cheek, such because the $7 home shot, with vodka, strawberry, lemon, and “unhealthy selections.” The tiny house has an unpretentious environment, with cozy seating and trendy decor, plus an out of doors patio. This is Tiny Victories’ second Tastemaker nomination, following a nomination for Best Bar in 2020.

Whiskeys
In-the-know gem simply outdoors Fair Park is a favourite of service-industry folks and insiders. True to its title, the bar provides a whole lot of top-shelf whiskeys and bourbons which can be certain to stun each whiskey consultants and newbies. If you’re overwhelmed by the choices, they provide whiskey flights to get a style of a number of. The environment is upscale but unpretentious, fostering a sultry environment with darkish decor and soulful music.

Wriggly Tin
Bar-restaurant with craft beer, cocktails, patio, and pizza opened in November 2023 in a Quonset hut close to Fair Park. It’s an eclectic house with trinkets from around the globe, plus a glass wall very best for watching sunsets. The menu is straightforward, with 14-inch New York-style pizzas, and beer made on-site by Small Beer Works, a brewery based by Jacob Boger and Aaron Garcia, who beforehand owned Small Brewpub in Oak Cliff. (Boger is not concerned with Wriggly Tin, neither is opening chef Desmon Coleman.)