{"id":403224,"date":"2026-08-11T04:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403224\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T04:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:30:30","slug":"deep-ellum-restaurant-zatar-lebanese-tapas-bar-to-close-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403224\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Ellum restaurant Zatar Lebanese Tapas & Bar to close. Here’s why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zatar Lebanese Tapas & Bar will close its doors in Deep Ellum<\/a> by the end of August, becoming at least the sixth food-related business to shutter in the Dallas neighborhood<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last two years, we\u2019ve fought through one challenge after another,\u201d a Facebook post from the restaurant<\/a> said. \u201cWe poured everything we had into keeping our doors open because we truly believed things would turn around.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the post, the restaurant\u2019s closure is due to \u201congoing construction and other challenges\u201d that have \u201cmade it impossible for us to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dallas Morning News attempted to reach the owners by phone Monday to learn more about the closure but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n

Once called\u00a0“Dallas’ new hot spot for Lebanese meze,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Zatar offered a menu of hot and cold\u00a0appetizers like hummus or the falafel plate, as well as dishes like beef kabob, lamb chops and pan-seared salmon.\u00a0Zatar, which has been open since 2016, also doubles as a hookah spot.<\/p>\n

Deep Ellum has seen at least five other restaurant closures this year, some of which were businesses that had been open for about a decade or longer.<\/p>\n

Closing Zatar \u201cwasn\u2019t an easy decision,\u201d the owners said in the Facebook post, but there\u2019s still time to visit the restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have a few weeks left, and we\u2019d love the opportunity to see you one last time,\u201d the post said. \u201cCome enjoy your favorite dishes, have one more drink, smoke one more hookah, and help us celebrate the memories we\u2019ve created together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zatar Lebanese Tapas & Bar is at 2825 Commerce St., Dallas. The restaurant will be closing by the end of August, though its last day was not disclosed.\u00a0zatardallas.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zatar Lebanese Tapas & Bar will close its doors in Deep Ellum by the end of August, becoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,87998,95591,89729,89307],"class_list":["post-403224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-deep-ellum","tag-tp-east-dallas","tag-tp-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403224","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=403224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}