House of Blues
2200 North Lamar Street, Dallas, 75202
(in Victory Park by Woodall Rodgers)
Phone: 214-978-2583
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Basic information:
- Pricing: Expensive
- Alcohol: Full Bar
- No indoor smoking section
- Accepts major credit cards
- Reservations recommended
Features:
- Outdoor seating
- Sunday brunch menu
- Buffet: Brunch
- Private room(s)
Business hours
- Sundays: 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- Mondays: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- Tuesdays: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- Wednesdays: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- Thursdays: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- Fridays: 11 a.m. to midnight
- Saturdays: 11 a.m. to midnight
The kitchen is always open during business hours.
Scheduled events
August 2008
- Extreme / Kings X (Wednesday, Aug. 20)
- Paula Nelson / Stewart Mann & The Statesboro Revue (Thursday, Aug. 21)
- CJ Wilson & Friends Guitar Hero Challenge (Thursday, Aug. 21)
- Matt Pryor / The New Amsterdams / Kevin Devine / Kristin Leigh (Friday, Aug. 22)
- Almost Queen (Friday, Aug. 22)
- Charlie Zaa / Sonora (CANCELED) (Saturday, Aug. 23)
- Boy George / Liam and Me (CANCELED) (Saturday, Aug. 23)
- The Melvins / Big Business (Saturday, Aug. 23)
- Darkest Hour / As Blood Runs Black / Parkway Drive / Misery Signals / Stick To Your Guns (Sunday, Aug. 24)
- Nas / Talib Kweli / Jay Electronica / DJ Green Lantern (Tuesday, Aug. 26)
- Tokio Hotel (Wednesday, Aug. 27)
- Jeremy Enigk / Sarah Jaffe / Kris Youmans / Omoreka (Thursday, Aug. 28)
- Edgar Winter / Rick Derringer (Friday, Aug. 29)
- Topaz / Mudphonic / Fatty Lumpkin (Friday, Aug. 29)
- Anthony Green (Saturday, Aug. 30)
- Back in Black / Fan Halen (Saturday, Aug. 30)
- Seth Walker / Leah Marr (Saturday, Aug. 30)
- Who's Bad- The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band (Sunday, Aug. 31)
September 2008
- Ludo / The Feds / Likely Story (Tuesday, Sept. 2)
- Dave Stewart and his Rock Fabulous Orchestra (Tuesday, Sept. 2)
- Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers (Wednesday, Sept. 3)
- Peter Frampton (Wednesday, Sept. 3)
- The Anrica Experience (Friday, Sept. 5)
- Squeeze / Fastball (Saturday, Sept. 6)
- Del Castillo (Saturday, Sept. 6)
- Common / N.E.R.D. (Wednesday, Sept. 10)
- The Wailers (CANCELED) (Thursday, Sept. 11)
- Street Dogs / Time Again / Dog Company (Friday, Sept. 12)
- DJ Flex (CANCELED) (Friday, Sept. 12)
- Punch Brothers (Saturday, Sept. 13)
- Three 6 Mafia (Saturday, Sept. 13)
- Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip (Monday, Sept. 15)
- Children of Bodom / Between the Buried and Me (Tuesday, Sept. 16)
- The Hives / Eagles of Death Metal / The Willowz (Wednesday, Sept. 17)
- Finch / Scary Kids Scaring Kids / Tickle Me Pink / Our Last Night (Thursday, Sept. 18)
- Rhett Miller / Sarah Jaffe (Friday, Sept. 19)
- Dark Star Orchestra (Friday, Sept. 19)
- The Robert Cray Band / Guy Forsyth (Saturday, Sept. 20)
- Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers / Erin McKeown (Saturday, Sept. 20)
- Hanson (Sunday, Sept. 21)
- Nelly (Monday, Sept. 22)
- Hollywood Undead (Tuesday, Sept. 23)
- Flogging Molly / The Loved Ones / Beat Union (Wednesday, Sept. 24)
- Ben Kweller (Thursday, Sept. 25)
- Drive By Truckers / Shooter Jennings (Thursday, Sept. 25)
- Joe Bonamassa /Guest Back Door Slam (Friday, Sept. 26)
- City and Colour (Friday, Sept. 26)
- The Fratellis / The Airborne Toxic Event / Electric Touch (Sunday, Sept. 28)
- Ingram Hill (Sunday, Sept. 28)
- Kenny Loggins (Monday, Sept. 29)
October 2008
- Cowboy Mouth (Wednesday, Oct. 1)
- The Kooks / The Whigs (Thursday, Oct. 2)
- Justin Moore (CANCELED) (Friday, Oct. 3)
- Super Diamond (Friday, Oct. 3)
- Jaguares (Saturday, Oct. 4)
- The Music of Abba (Sunday, Oct. 5)
- Yelle (Tuesday, Oct. 7)
- The Academy Is... / We the Kings / Blake (Wednesday, Oct. 8)
- Citizen Cope (Thursday, Oct. 9)
- The Presidents of The United States of America / The Black & White Years (Friday, Oct. 10)
- Ghostland Observatory (Saturday, Oct. 11)
- The Walkmen (Saturday, Oct. 11)
- Dave Attell (Sunday, Oct. 12)
- Opeth / High on Fire / Baroness (Wednesday, Oct. 15)
- Ingrid Michaelson / Meiko / Priscilla Ahn / Erin McCarley / Brooke Fraser / Kaiser Cartel (Thursday, Oct. 16)
- Pepper / Passafire / Supervillians (Friday, Oct. 17)
- The Rocket Summer / Phantom Planet / The Secret Handshake / The Morning Light (Saturday, Oct. 18)
Recurring events
- Comedy Zone Stand-up Club: Chris Wiles and Mark Evans (Starting Aug. 6, 2008)
- Gospel Brunch (Starting June 3, 2007)
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DC Anonymous
Too bad I can't spell any more.
1 year, 2 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
DC Anonymous
Food: 4/5 Vibe: 4/5 Service: 5/5 Value: 3/5 Overall: 4/5
Ok, so let's preface this. I'm talking about a random Friday night where she says, do you want to go to the House of Blues tonight and I say sure. We're not paying, so here we go.
We drop the car with the valet (who killed the battery on the car) $12. Seriously.
Yes, we say high to Maurice en route up to the Foundation Room. A short elevator ride later and here we are, lounge to the right, dining to the left. Briefly later, we're at our table. It's almost looking over the dining room, but still somewhat quiet.
The walls are a mix of silks and embroidery. The whole place follows an Indian theme. The patrons are moderately overweight, but surprisingly, no one is yelling nor spilling things.
We order. To start, tartar: steak since no tuna on this night, oysters, salads. The chef sends out a small cup of asparagus soup with a single bite of catfish. It's a dlightful blend of salty and cool. The tartar is a little on the salty side, but it makes up for it in substance (hello - Nobu). Oysters Rockefeller are well played, right heat great sauce.
Entrees? Filet mignon and salmon. Both - well, great. No, really. The last time I lowered myself to restuarant steak was at Bob's. I was rewarded with a huge tendinous vein of cartilage bisecting my filet. This, not so much. Exactly as ordered, pink, no blood, served on tofu fries with beans and asparagus. The salmon flakes without force, melts quickly and leaves the palate wanting more.
Desserts include another course of in house made ice creme and cookies along with an order of bread pudding. The cookie is a little hard for the dish, but not so big that it is unreasonable.
Again, it's not like we're here as "anonymous", so a higher level of service might be expected. However, this isn't the first time we've been out together, and I'll have to say that the staff were exceptionally friendly without being disingenuous snots.
Yes, afterwards we went to check out the performing space, and it's great. The floor space offers a good party space and all the seating upstairs has an excellent view. Oh yeah, no one is smoking in your face, either.
Ok, here it is.
Yeah, this whole House of Blues thing is all right. As much as I try to continue to push through every busted sidewalk, smoky, urine filled establishment in downtown, I am pretty much ready to say that going here is like driving a faster car, using a newer computer or having sex with well, whatever your favorite fantasy is. It's different and it's better and it's time to accept it.
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