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Restaurant dining chain in New York City From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dallas BBQ (sometimes locally referred as "BBQ's") is a restaurant dining chain in New York City, founded in 1978 by the Wetanson family. The restaurant serves Texas-style barbecue ribs, chicken and steaks. As of 2023[update] the chain had ten restaurants around the New York metropolitan area.
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| Industry |
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| Predecessor |
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| Founded | 1978 in New York City |
| Founder | Carl & Grace Wetanson |
| Headquarters | Times Square, New York City , United States |
Number of locations | 11 (current); 2 (defunct) |
Area served | New York metropolitan area |
| Products | |
| Services | Lunch|Dinner|Catering |
| Owner |
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| Website | https://www.dallasbbq.com/ |
In 1936, Carl and Grace Wetanson began a family-run restaurant business "Grace’s Luncheonette" on 42nd Street, Manhattan (currently the same address as the Dallas BBQ's 42nd-street flagship restaurant in Times Square). In the 1960s Carl's son Herbert, later developed Wetson's, which became a hamburger chain in New York City in the 1970s serving over 70 restaurants. The family then opened a new restaurant in the Upper West Side section of Manhattan. naming it Dallas BBQ in 1978 and the franchise grew and operated up to the present day, currently owned by the three generations: Herbert, Greg, and Stuart Wetanson.[1][2]
The restaurant chain offered southern dining in New York City with a location in the East Village section of Manhattan since the 1980s. However this branch closed on New Years Day, 2023, due to the lease agreement not being renewed by the landlord. The closure followed that of their first location in the Upper West Side, on 72nd street between Columbus and Central Park West, which closed after 36 years of operation on December 31, 2014.[3]
The dining chain have operated twelve restaurants since 1978, with eleven remaining as of 2024, with the recent closing of The East Village restaurant, and a new location in East New York, Brooklyn which opened in February 2024.[citation needed]
In 2015, a couple was assaulted in the 23rd street restaurant.[4] In 2017, one diner attacked another.[5]
The Dallas BBQ Times Square location was used in the TruTV reality television show Impractical Jokers (season 10, episode 9), where the pranksters led Sal Vulcano to act as a clumsy waiter at the restaurant responding to their relay of directions to be fulfilled in efforts prank the patrons.[6] The East Village location was also a subject of a 2014 comedy spoof "Dallas BBQ Club" directed by Ben Rimalower, as a parody to the 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club. The mock trailer follows a man who creates his own 'club' as a protest of former New York City Mayors Bill de Blasio and Michael Bloomberg push to ban large sugary drinks at retail establishments. He illegally sells mock meals of the franchise to the street locals[7]
Notable clientele of the restaurant include Jim Jones, Cam'ron, Nia Kay, Melvin Ingram, Azealia Banks,[8] and New York City mayor Eric Adams.[9]
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The menu lists meat, seafood, vegetable, salads, sandwiches, and sides dishes, a Beyond Burger plant-based option, and children's meals. Alcoholic beverages and cocktails are served.
The chain as of 2024 has restaurants in Manhattan (Chelsea, Times Square, Upper East Side, Washington Heights); The Bronx (Co-op City, Fordham Road); Queens (Jamaica, Rego Park), and Brooklyn (Downtown Brooklyn, Nostrand Ave/Flatbush Junction and East New York/Gateway Center Mall).
Previous restaurants were located on the Upper West Side (1978–2014)[13] and East Village (1980s – 2022).
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