JR.’s Bar & Grill will be re-opening Monday, Oct. 19, at Noon. Read our review here of JR’s Bar and Grill vs. other favorites in the gayborhood. Just in time for the block party weekend that would normally be held but is canceled this year.
Gov. Greg Abbott last week announced that bars in the state could begin re-opening at 50 percent capacity on a county-by-county basis, with the final decision in each county left up to the county judge. The same judge that has not been blindly following the governors advice. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said that bars here are not yet allowed to re-open. But JR.’s, which already had a kitchen and served food, is able to re-open as a restaurant under revised TABC rules governing the distinction between a bar and a restaurant.
JR’s is not the only bar that has re-opened in Oak Lawn. Bars in the gayborhood have already re-opened under the new TABC rules, including Havana’s, Marty’s Live Liquid Zoo, Mr. Mister, The Grapevine and Tin Room. Some of the bars have teamed with food trucks to meet the requirements for re-opening as a restaurant.
We are also hearing that Sue Ellen’s and TMC may re-open in the near future but Station 4 may be the last. The good thing is that you can see drag shows at JR’s on many nights of the week.
This comes while we are in the second surge of the Covid-19 Pandemic that has taken nearly 218,000 deaths so the opinions may very with the comments online. Some are saying “Yay! Glad people get to return to their jobs!,” while other may say things such as “Have you ever tried to make drunk people do what they’re supposed to do?”
Here is a look at the menu JR’s had before the pandemic:
There is still no word on when the Roundup Saloon will re-open one of the larger bars on the strip. We have also heard that the Eagle bar will not consider reopening until December.
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