{"id":149831,"date":"2026-02-04T00:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149831\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:26:06","slug":"deep-ellum-bar-duo-to-open-french-restaurant-in-bishop-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149831\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Ellum bar duo to open French restaurant in Bishop Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new French-inspired restaurant and bar from the team behind two Deep Ellum hot spots will soon make its debut in Dallas’ Bishop Arts District: Called Trapeze, it will open this spring in a cute bungalow at 240 W. 8th St.<\/p>\n

Trapeze is from Peter Novotny and Dan Murry, who operate popular Deep Ellum haunts Ruins<\/a> and Armoury D.E<\/a>. They have been remodeling the old Bishop Arts bungalow extensively for their newest restaurant venture.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s basically going to be kind of a French bohemian bar and restaurant, with real emphasis on the bohemian,\u201d Novotny says. \u201cIt will kind of feel like an old-fashioned bohemian artist\u2019s enclave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matt Battaglia, the founder of the now-defunct Denton music festival Oaktopia and current tour manager for musician Marc Rebillet, is also involved in the project. <\/p>\n

The space itself underwent a massive revamp that\u2019s been in the works for months, including a few weather-induced delays. And because Trapeze is located in a conservation district, that construction had to be done in a way that would maintain the home\u2019s original look.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s basically a complete renovation,\u201d Novotny says. \u201cThey had to rebuild the entire structure. The whole exterior is all new.\u201d <\/p>\n

Novotny says that the inspiration for Trapeze comes from Oak Cliff\u2019s own historical French influence. That will be reflected in the space\u2019s \u201cquirky\u201d vibe, which he says will be very colorful and in keeping with the bohemian theme.<\/p>\n

The neighborhood was once home to the French utopian community La Reunion<\/a>, which sprouted up around 1855.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to do a tribute to the French history of Oak Cliff and Bishop Arts, and our goal is to capture the things we love about regional French cuisine and culture,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n

To head up the kitchen at Trapeze, Novotny and Murry tapped Jeremy Spector, a New York chef who\u2019s worked in much-lauded kitchens like Balthazar and Gramercy Tavern, along with owning and operating his own restaurants in the city, as culinary director. Spector is developing the menu for the restaurant, which will serve classic dishes from the different regions of France, along with flavors inspired by France\u2019s once-vast colonial empire, including Moroccan cuisine. <\/p>\n

As one might expect from two Deep Ellum bar experts, the cocktail program at Trapeze will be serious. Expect classic French cocktails, New Orleans-influenced libations, and an extensive list of cognacs, rhum agricoles, and \u201cmany other classic French spirits and liqueurs,\u201d Novotny says. The bar will also offer a solid menu of aperitifs and digestifs, along with cocktails mixed with absinthe, cognac, and Chartreuse, and French and \u201cFrench-adjacent\u201d cider and beer.<\/p>\n

Novotny and Murry are shooting for an opening date in April, just in time for what will hopefully be good spring weather. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new French-inspired restaurant and bar from the team behind two Deep Ellum hot spots will soon make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4895,102,104,103,3949,423],"class_list":{"0":"post-149831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-bishop-arts","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-deep-ellum","13":"tag-openings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}