{"id":413416,"date":"2026-08-22T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413416\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:24:15","slug":"bar-rescue-contacted-lakewood-landing-and-dallas-says-nope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413416\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Rescue contacted Lakewood Landing and Dallas says ‘Nope’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLakewood Landing is quite literally our favorite bar in Dallas.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Lauren Drewes Daniels<\/p>\n

\u201cBar Rescue\u201d is a popular reality TV show where host and longtime bar consultant Jon Taffer applies CPR to dying bars. There\u2019s yelling. A bit of shame. Tears are shed, which smell like damp carpet and fluorescent lighting. <\/p>\n

The show started back in 2011 and, well, after 15 years of bar rescues, perhaps the search for new spots is getting difficult. For the second time, producers have contacted longtime East Dallas dive Lakewood Landing. <\/p>\n

\u201cLast time this happened, which was maybe five years ago, I replied the same way [politely],\u201d Jordan Lowery at Lakewood told the Observer. \u201cBut what I wanted to do was send them links to every award we had won, every list we have appeared on, and favorable articles that had been written about us.\u201d <\/p>\n

Lakewood is a humble dark neighborhood bar. <\/a>The bar has been around since the \u201960s, and the current owner, Bill Rossell, has owned this self-proclaimed upscale dive since 1998. If you were lucky, at some point you were served by longtime bartender Lucille Matthews, who brought elegance and class to the place.<\/p>\n

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THANK YOU!<\/p>\n

You’re all set.<\/p>\n

CLOSE\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

On any night, Lakewood is a mix of regulars who will give a cursory glance from their spot at the bar when newbies walk in, to preppy Park Cities couples grabbing a drink before heading home. Later in the night, anyone from anywhere hunkers down in a low booth under lower lights and orders the house-dipped and fried corn dogs \u2014\u00a0after 11 p.m., of course. The bathrooms are allowed to be themselves and the pool table works. <\/p>\n

Many accolades have appeared in this very publication; last year, it literally held the No. 1 spot in our ranking of the best bars in Dallas (we stopped ranking bars this year). Lakewood Landing is a favorite, to put it mildly. We could sit here and talk about our favorite bar bites, the best seats, the best time to go and the best fights we had there. But let\u2019s let the people talk. The post has 114 comments. There are countless \u201cnooooos\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t do it!\u201d but here are our favorites from Facebook: <\/p>\n

\u201cTake it so you can fist fight Jon Taffer in the parking lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe rescue the AC?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cDo you hate us? Why would you even suggest something like that???\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c#savelakewoodlanding<\/a>\u00a0!!!!\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n

\"\ud83d\ude02\"\/<\/p>\n

\u201cServe the corn dogs before 11pm. (Boom, you\u2019ve been rescued.)\u00a0\"\ud83d\ude06\"\/\u201c<\/p>\n

\u2013 Kelly P Perkins<\/p>\n

\u201cLoad up the corn dog canon we ride at dawn!\u201d<\/p>\n

Count us in. We live to ride at dawn over here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakewood Landing is quite literally our favorite bar in Dallas. Lauren Drewes Daniels \u201cBar Rescue\u201d is a popular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,702],"class_list":["post-413416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413416","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=413416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}