Restaurants coming & going:
[+] Campisi’s
5944 Royal Lane
[+] CRAFT Restaurant
& Beer Market
5974 W. Northwest Highway
[+] Cantina La Rosa
4347 W. Northwest Highway
[+] Scilla
8111 Douglas Ave.
[+] Palladino’s Steak & Seafood
5959 Royal Lane
[-] Tricky Fish – closed in March
7949 Walnut Hill Lane
[-]Anchor Sushi Bar – closed in May
6025 Royal Lane
[+] Fortune House – coming this fall
7825 Firefall Way
Ode to Sevy’s
Photo courtesy of Laura Watters.
“My husband and I met at Sevy’s for our first date. It was December 1998. We got married 9/16/2004 -— we just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. Here is the photo from our first date. I am the one on the left – my husband is the second one from me [to the right].” – Laura Watters
“Sevy’s survived the dot-com crash. It survived the 2008 recession. It survived COVID. It survived Jim Severson’s own health struggles. It seemed, to those who loved it, genuinely immune to the ordinary forces that kill restaurants … The corner booth at 8201 Preston Road is quiet now. Thirty years of deals and friendships and power lunches and early Saturday mornings at the bar have come to a close. Dallas is good at building thing. It is less practiced at holding onto them.
Sevy’s deserved better than a landlord dispute. So did we.” – Jay Rosser
This or that with Inwood Tavern’s Brendan Willis
Beer or bourbon?
Bourbon over beer.
Favorite shift soundtrack?
I love house remixes of old songs and old school hip-hop.
First drink after your own shift?
I enjoy a Sun Cruiser iced tea and a chilled shot of espolòn blanco with a splash of ginger ale for a drink when I’m off work.
Most-requested cocktail?
Ranch water or Tito’s and soda are a tie for most-ordered beverages for me.
Favorite season at the Tavern?
Easily the fall and the holidays are my favorite time at the tavern; no competition.
You know you’re at Inwood Tavern when…
… you’re waiting in line to go into the bathroom three to five girls at a time, or it’s 12:30 a.m. on Friday night, and the entire bar is singing Friends in Low Places or Journey or Whitney Houston at the top of their lungs, and it sounds great, but it shouldn’t.
