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Best ways to celebrate Mardi Gras 2025 in Dallas
Mardi Gras, the holiday known for beads and boisterous parades, falls on March 4 this year. Its origins in the U.S. date back to 1870 in New Orleans.
The biggest day of all during the celebration is Fat Tuesday, which turns attention to food and King Cake, a colorful cake that typically has a tiny baby doll inside, a sign of luck. Though Dallas is quite a ways from the birth place of Mardi Gras, you don’t have to make the trip out to Louisiana to celebrate because these local restaurants make it feel like you’re already in the midst of the party.
Here’s where all the Mardi Gras specials are happening in Dallas:
Bbbop Seoul Kitchen. Oak Cliff restaurant will have a menu featuring gumbo, Asian Cajun drumsticks, and classic Hurricanes. Seating is first-come, first-served. March 2.
Bread Winners. Offering specials, including Shrimp Étouffée, King Cakes, and $8 King Cake Martinis. Plus, let us take your Mardi Gras celebrations to the next level with our catering options, featuring delicious King Cakes, Cupcakes, and Mini King Cakes. Available at Allen, NorthPark, Plano, and Uptown.
Cannon’s Corner. Oak Cliff Irish pub hosting their Mardi Gras parade party with food and drink specials, including hurricanes and French 75s, po’boy sandwiches, and gumbo. There will be beads. March 2, 9 am.
The Charlotte. Neighborhood bistro on Henderson Avenue offering special menu with $35 blackened red fish, $35 crawfish boil, and drinks including a hurricane and frozen strawberry daiquiri, which are $12 each. March 4, all day.
Cinnaholic. Cinnamon roll chain is offering King Cakes for $30. This shareable cake will serve eight to ten people, and can be found at Addison, Arlington, Frisco, Grand Prairie, Irving, Grand Prairie, McKinney, Mesquite, and Richardson locations. Available now through March 4.
Colombian Country Club. Offering a menu with a gumbo crafted by the chef, while mini king cakes will be placed on tables to add a traditional touch, alongside their cocktails including the Columbian daiquiri, frozen strawberry daiquiri, and the Bourbon Street Old Fashioned. Plus, there will be a special drinks menu from Aguasol, providing a dual frozen machine featuring specialty frozen daiquiris. Prices a la carte. March 4.
Dee’s Table. Frisco restaurant offering special dishes including the $19 pastalaya, $16 shrimp po-boy, Bananas Foster bread pudding, and Voodoo daiquiri. March 4, starting at 11 am with live music at 3 pm.
Dodie’s on the Harbor. Rockwall restaurant is hosting food and drink specials the Friday through Monday leading up to Fat Tuesday featuring $11 gator bites, $7 King Cake and ice cream, and $5 hurricanes or margaritas. They’ll also have a Fat Tuesday celebration from 2 pm to close featuring live music, free beads all day, bead contest, and $3 drink specials with margaritas, hurricanes, and Miller Lite.
Ida Claire. Addison restaurant celebrating with menu of boiled crawfish, King Cake bread pudding, gumbo, daiquiris, and hurricanes. Prices start at $6 for food and $12 for hurricanes. During Fat Tuesday, they’ll have a mask-making station with New Orleans-inspired tunes. February 28 through Fat Tuesday, March 4 with a Mardi Gras celebration.
Jack & Harry’s. French Quarter-inspired chophouse in Snider Plaza is offering a menu with blue crab gumbo, oysters St. Claude, and prime, dry-aged steaks, and French onion filet. Prices are a la carte. Featured cocktails include Bourbon Street classics like the Sazerac and Hemingway Daiquiri, plus new $9 mini martinis. March 4.
Nuri Steakhouse. Uptown steakhouse hosting a Mardi Gras soiree on the Jade Terrace featuring passed hors d’oeuvres, such as crab cakes and Wagyu dumplings, and special cocktails. The event also includes live entertainment. Festive masks and attire encouraged. Tickets are $150 with a reservation. March 4, 6-10 pm.
Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen. Cajun seafood restaurant offering a menu of specialty dishes including rainbow trout Mardi Gras and New Orleans-style BBQ shrimp. Dessert features vanilla cheesecake with traditional Mardi Gras king cake, cinnamon, graham cracker crust, and crème anglaise. They’ll also be offering a keepsake Mardi Gras glass with each Swampthing cocktail order starting February 28. Dining specials available February 19 – March 4.
S&D Oyster Company. The Uptown oyster bar will be rolling out mini king cakes— 25 of which will have a mini baby hidden inside. Guests who find a baby will get their cake for free and win a $20 gift card to return to S&D. March 4.
Quarter Bar. Offering New Orleans-inspired specials, including $6 Hurricanes, $8 King Cake shots, shrimp étouffée, a shrimp and crawfish boil, and King Cakes — all set to the backdrop of live music. March 4.
The Village Dallas. The mixed-use community in east Dallas is offering Mardi Gras packages to access specials at its dining spaces. Buzz and Bustle, the local craft coffee house, is featuring a Banana’s Fosters cold brew latte,mini King Cake,Muffaletta sandwich,and mango sunrise drink; Over Under sports bar is featuring red beans and rice,shrimp etouffee, and a crawfish boil, served by the pound with corn and potatoes while supplies last; and Sandy Pickle offering a beignet station, hushpuppies with remoulade, and shrimp po’boy. Tickets include Hurricane package for $25, and the Crawdaddy package for $40. March 1, 12-6 pm.
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Trackdown: Dallas 7-Eleven robbery suspect wanted
DALLAS – Dallas police need a name for a dangerous robber who pulled a gun on a 7-Eleven clerk and walked out with the cash register drawer.
He was caught on camera. But it’s been six months, and he’s still at large.
7-Eleven Robberies
What we know:
The robbery in question happened on Jan. 13 around 10:30 p.m. at the store at 302 North Marsalis Avenue.
A Black male who is about 5 feet 8 inches tall and about 170 to 180 pounds walked in and waited until no other customers were inside.
“After it’s empty, he displays a handgun and points it at the cashier,” said Det. Eduardo Lopez Villa. “I don’t know what he said. He just demanded the cash from the cash register.”
Det. Villa said the suspect took the whole cash register drawer before fleeing eastbound on foot on 8th Street.
What you can do:
The detective believes anyone who knows the suspect will be able to recognize him.
“Yes, most definitely based on the video and the screenshot. If you know him, you’ll recognize him,” he said.
Tipsters can call or text Det. Villa at 469-755-8445.
“I need his information so I can talk to him about this incident,” he said.
FOX 4’s Trackdown
You can watch Shaun Rabb’s Trackdown series every Wednesday on FOX 4. Episodes are also posted weekly online, on YouTube and on FOX Local.
FOX 4 viewers have now helped to make 220 arrests.
The Source: The information in this story comes from Dallas Police Det. Eduardo Lopez Villa.
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Dallas weather: Flash flooding strands vehicles near DFW Airport after heavy rain
DALLAS – Slow-moving thunderstorms brought localized flash flooding to parts of North Texas on Tuesday evening, blocking highways near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and dropping several inches of rain in portions of Tarrant and Parker counties.
Flash Flood Warnings
Local perspective:
Flash flood warnings are in effect for Hopkins, Hunt, Rains and Van Zandt counties until 7:45 p.m.
Flooding was reported along Texas 183 near Valley View Lane south of DFW Airport, where stranded vehicles and water-covered roadways created hazardous travel conditions.
A flash flood warning remained in effect near the airport, although rainfall rates had begun to diminish as the storm weakened.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
The National Weather Service also issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northern Hood County, citing the potential for gusty winds and small hail. Forecasters reported hail ranging from pea-sized to marble-sized in parts of Hood, Parker and Denton counties.
Forecasters attributed the weakening storms in Denton County to an outflow boundary, a meteorological feature that can disrupt thunderstorm development.
The warning area was reduced as the storm weakened near sunset.
LIVE RADAR
What they’re saying:
FOX 4’s Kylie Capps said the storms moved unusually slowly from east to west, allowing heavy rain to accumulate over the same areas for several hours.
Rainfall estimates showed some locations in eastern Parker County and western Tarrant County received nearly 5 inches of rain during a six-hour period, while areas near DFW Airport recorded more than 2 inches.
Elsewhere in North Texas, northern Rains County received nearly 5 inches of rain.
7-Day Forecast
What’s next:
Forecasters expect a quieter overnight period, with only isolated showers lingering into the evening. Additional thunderstorms are possible Wednesday afternoon, though coverage and the threat of severe weather are expected to remain limited.
Temperatures are forecast to reach about 90 degrees Wednesday.
Rain chances are expected to continue through the remainder of the workweek and into the weekend as an upper-level low-pressure system sends multiple disturbances across North Texas.
The Source: Information in this article was provided by FOX 4’s Weather Team
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