CAN A STEAKHOUSE MAKE THE TRANSITION FROM ROCKWALL TO DEEP ELLUM?

When we reached out to update our 2024 spring and summer restaurant preview, we discovered that UNCO Hospitality shifted its strategy for a new space in the Continental Gin Building, where it has the Eater Award-winning best new bar in Dallas for 2023, Tina’s Continental. Back at the start of the year, we reported that it would open a space called Let’s Ask Keith, named after UNCO head Elias Pope’s father, and it would be a sit-down dinner restaurant, but the kind of food was undecided. Well, the plans changed, and by March of this year the company had decided to open a second location of the Culpepper Cattle Co.

According to a press release, that opening is now happening on May 1.

The Culpepper Cattle Co. will serve lunch, brunch, and dinner, with a menu based on it’s original Rockwall location. Pope’s career includes a stint at Saltgrass Steakhouse, and he cites the chain’s ethos of quality ingredients at approachable prices as an inspiration for the menu at Culpepper.

The menu includes a slew of Texas-style favorite dishes, including a double-bone pork chop, a steakhouse burger, chicken fried lobster, and fried green tomatoes. It will also serve Tex-Mex classics, including fajitas, enchiladas, nachos, flautas, and a house queso.

It will feature a covered patio outdoors that seats 60 and is ideal for having a margarita. And in a win for the neighborhood, it offers valet but also has four-hour free on-site parking.

Culpepper Cattle Co. will be at 3309 Elm Street in the Continental Gin Building. It opens on May 1 and will serve lunch and dinner Monday through Friday and adds brunch to lunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday.

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