16 August 21 - 27, 2025 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents ites (including diner food) and freshly baked pies. Sounds like next weekend’s plans, eh? Oddfellows 316 W. Seventh St. (Bishop Arts) What do a brisket hash, duck bacon sand- wich and prosciutto bagel have in common? They’re all heavy hitters on Oddfellow’s daytime menu. It has the perfect mix of breakfast and lunch, including freshly squeezed juice and homemade lemonade. Picky? Don’t worry. The a la carte classics, two for $9 pancakes and OG eggs have you covered. They have deviled eggs, too. Original Market Diner 4434 Harry Hines Blvd. We love the old diner vibes and hospitality at Original Market Diner, built in 1954 as a classic drive-in. We also don’t mind the Ex- press For Less Menu on Mondays through Fridays with big plates of comfort food at very friendly pricing (between $8 and $11). The place closes at 3 p.m. daily but opens at 6 a.m., when real people eat breakfast. Fun fact: they serve wine and beer and have homemade desserts. Be sure to check out the daily specials. Tribal All-Day Cafe 263 N Bishop Ave. We don’t usually partake in cashew cheese or plant milk; however, we admire Tribal All-Day Cafe’s commitment to healthy (mostly) plant-based breakfast offerings. House-made macadamia ricotta is the star of their biscuit board for the table. Breakfast tacos, burritos, and a classic breakfast with local sourdough toast are where they don’t shy away from eggs and dairy. Most of the menu can be made completely custom with their long list of extras and sides like walnut and mushroom “sausage”, lox and vegan ca- shew queso. Best of all, the coffee’s great too. Xaman Cafe 334 Jefferson Blvd. Do we go to Xaman Cafe to get our hands on their intriguing little clay cups from Oaxaca? Yes. Do we also go for their Mexican break- fast staples? Also yes. Their morning menu is available weekdays starting at 7:30 a.m., or 8 a.m. on the weekends, and there’s plenty to drool over. Under desayuno, the panqueques de elote (corn pancakes) are a must, as is the mollete, a sandwich made with your choice of egg or chorizo with black beans, melted quesillo, pico and house salsa. While you don’t always need one, a reservation here is an insurance policy for the hangry. Espe- cially on the weekends. ▼ DEEP ELLUM DEEP ELLUM’S LAST STAND PROPERTY OWNERS ARE TAKING BACK THE STREETS. BY LAUREN DREWES DANIELS AND SIMON PRUITT R odeo Dallas, the club in Deep Ellum that’s popular with drinkers while despised by some of its neighbors, is closed again. For now. The closure didn’t come from the police — though there are plenty of them in Deep Ellum these days — or Dallas code enforcers, or agents with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission that brought about the bar’s second closing in less than it week. It was one of the bar’s neighboring prop- erty owners. On Tuesday, Aug. 5, Rodeo Dallas’ land- lord, Westdale Asset Management, chained and padlocked the door of Deep Ellum’s highest-grossing bar. The Dallas Morning News reported that the Dallas District Attor- ney’s Office sent a warning to the bar, laying out more than a dozen criminal cases at the property, including cocaine possession and 11 instances of disorderly conduct. Rodeo was back open by 8 p.m. Wednes- day after receiving a judge’s ruling that it could remain open until the bar’s owners got their day in court to contest the closure. That lasted until Friday, Aug. 8, when an- other property management group, Asana Partners, filed suit against Rodeo Dallas; District Judge Veretta Frazier OK’d a tem- porary restraining order that shut the bar down again, and a hearing is set for Aug. 15. Throughout the weekend, Rodeo Dallas was shuttered and the streets surrounding it were quiet. All of which raises a question: Who’s re- sponsible for enforcing the law in Deep El- lum these days? Landlords? In late June, Deep Ellum bar and restau- rant owners piled into St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin to meet with the Dallas Police De- partment and City Council member Jesse Moreno to talk about safety issues plaguing the entertainment district this summer. Tenants pleaded with city officials for better police work in the area, not just for a higher presence of cops, but for “doing something,” said restaurateur Pete Zotos of St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin. After the meeting, a 30-day timetable was set for the city to return with a new plan to improve the neighborhood’s safety. That timetable means the new plan will arrive sometime around September, which, per- haps coincidentally, is when most kids re- turn to school and Deep Ellum’s streets traditionally get calmer. Stephanie Keller Hudiberg with the Deep Ellum Foundation said businesses can’t wait for summer to end to make Deep Ellum safer, and summer will be here again soon enough. She and the Deep Ellum Foun- dation are working on a broader safety plan modeled after other large entertainment districts that addresses the many compli- cated issues in the area. Hudiberg doesn’t want to just make it safe; her aim is to see Deep Ellum thrive as a music and tourist destination. Mike Ziemer just opened a new venue, Puzzles, on Main Street, and hopes the city and neighborhood association — as well as the people who make up Deep Ellum — see past the summer. “The timeline places the solutions around the same time that problems usually work themselves out,” Ziemer says. “While I am optimistic the city may finally take this seriously and come up with a game plan, I am also aware that they may end up taking credit for something that naturally happens every year when school starts back up.” There have been two fatal shootings in Deep Ellum this summer and numerous other shootings. We’ve recently reported on property owners taking drastic steps, such as updating new lease agreements to include mandatory closings at midnight, instead of the more common — and lucrative — 2 a.m. closing time for bars and clubs. The team at Scarlet (previously Truth and Alibi) recently received an updated lease from Westdale asking them to agree to close at midnight, and to not offer bottle ser- vice, DJs or third-party promoters. The bar generates $80,000 a month from midnight to 2 a.m., double the amount it makes from 6 p.m. to midnight; closing at midnight would be detrimental to their business. A special use permit (SUP) may allow them to stay open later, but that’s something they are trying to solve with their manage- ment team. “A more effective solution would be to force businesses with a known history of vi- olence or violations to shut down,” Mike Church at Scarlet says. “The city should pull TABC and police records to identify these establishments.” Until the city steps up, leasing companies are stepping in while businesses like Scarlet are taking the financial hit. 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