Texas restaurateur Paul Mangiamele has been cooking up a comeback for iconic Dallas chain Steak and Ale for nearly a decade. Plans are finally in place to bring the family-friendly prime rib restaurant back to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
New Steak and Ale restaurants in Minnesota, Texas and beyond will have a red, white and black color scheme. The first Dallas-Fort Worth restaurant is expected to open sometime in It will have stained-glass windows and a salad bar, just like the original restaurant that opened at Oak Lawn and Lemmon avenues in Dallas in The restaurants that will follow, which will all be franchises, will seek to memorialize the essence of the famous steak chain created by Dallas restaurateur Norman Brinker.
Dallas is home to plenty of chain restaurants , and some Dallasites claim Steak and Ale was among the best. The Kensington Club was a popular entree at Steak and Ale. Courtesy of Legendary Restaurant Brands. Mangiamele and his wife bought both companies in Next comes a careful but steady set of Steak and Ales. Decades ago, the Mangiamele family visited Steak and Ale after church on Sundays in Dallas β long before they had any interest in buying the company. The pewter [beer stein] was fun.
I take it very seriously. Olympic horseman turned restaurateur. DMN archives. A little fun. That seems to be egregiously missing from the casual dining experience today. The restaurants will be designed in red, white and black, with banquettes in the middle of the room.
House-made soups like classic French onion, lobster bisque and beef barley will return. Hawaiian chicken will be back on the menu, and prime rib will be a signature, like it once was. Does anybody else care if we bring back Steak and Ale? We call it brand drift: drifting away from the original success components. Hundreds of restaurant workers in D-FW lost their jobs immediately following the Chapter 7 filing.
