It’s goodbye to Rye in Dallas, the Greenville Avenue restaurant featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives in 2025. Rye is expected to close March 7, 2026.
The Michelin-Recommended restaurant’s closure comes as a surprise. But its owners have a plan: Their next-door cocktail bar, Apothecary, will move into the Rye space.
Rye was one of Dallas’ most creative restaurants, with a new tasting menu created by chef-owner Taylor Rause and Agar every few months. The two chefs often tinkered with ingredients, techniques and plating, offering cheeky dishes that were never exactly as they seemed. For instance, when the restaurant opened in East Dallas, they refused to include a cheeseburger or a steak. Too typical, they said.
Its creativity is evident in a summer 2025 menu of 11 courses focused on playful twists of kid food. The truffle-butter bagel was called Breakfast in Front of the TV, and a foie gras gelato with caviar dish got the name Ice Cream Truck. One of the cocktails included Capri Sun, naturally.
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Co-owners of Rye restaurant are Taylor Rause, left, and Tanner Agar.
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Do Dallas diners not value Rye’s creativity, we wondered? CEO Tanner Agar said in a statement that he and the team “feel like it was the right move” to expand the bar. We’ve reached out to Agar for more information.
Notably, Rye’s bartender received Michelin recognition for Exceptional Cocktails in 2024. The margins are better on alcohol than on food, and it could be possible the company is leaning into that.
Also notable: Rye was one of the few Dallas restaurants that might have been good enough to graduate from Michelin Recommended status to a 1-star honor in 2025. Alas, no Recommended restaurants in Dallas were bumped up, including Rye.
Although Rye in Dallas had one of the most creative menus of any local restaurant, it was honored by Michelin in 2024 for its great cocktails.
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Agar said in a statement that the change will cater more to larger groups, a theme we’re seeing at other Dallas restaurants. (One example: The owners of nearby restaurant Goodwins are opening a Mediterranean restaurant, Corsaire, in part to serve bigger parties.)
“Rye isn’t gone forever,” Agar said in a company statement, “but we do hope you’ll come see us … before this big change takes place.”
After Rye closes March 7, Apothecary is expected to open in its place on March 13. The design will be “moodier,” according to a statement from the company.
What happens to the existing Apothecary bar?
Apothecary has been “Dallas’ most impressive date-night spot,” The Dallas Morning News wrote in 2021. It leaves plenty of room for the chefs to remain creative in this sector of East Dallas.
Apothecary is a low-key Dallas bar with high-key cocktails.
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When Apothecary moves over one suite, the restaurant owners will retain Apothecary’s former lease and turn it into “a more exclusive back room where cocktail masters will turn up the heat and offer the more adventurous drinks,” a statement said.
This back-room plan for Apothecary reminds us of the bar’s persona five years ago: In its infancy, Apothecary was the most fearless cocktail bar in Dallas. Its menu was full of avant garde techniques, like the hollandaise-washed vodka drink served with a smoked oyster; the cacio e pepe cocktail modeled after the pepper-and-Parmesan pasta dish; and the tequila drink garnished with an octopus tentacle.
Eventually, the team at Apothecary plans to include an “omakase cocktail experience,” or a set menu of drinks that will be available by reservation only.
Add it to the list: Dallas now has Japanese omakase restaurants, Indian omakase, Wagyu omakase and more.
Will Rye return?
Rye will serve its current Ancient Grains menu until Jan. 25.
A new menu debuts Jan. 27 through March 7. (How very Rye, to innovate even at the end.) That menu will be a greatest-hits list of the dishes from Rye’s first year in business in 2018, when it was first located in McKinney.
The team teased a return for Rye, though details are not available yet.
Regulars should look for Rye pop-ups every few months. They will “keep the Rye-lovers satiated until a new space is found,” the statement said.
Rye is at 1920 Greenville Ave., Dallas. Apothecary is expected to take its place in March 2026. Reserve a seat at Rye in its last few months here.