Dallas entrepreneur Paige Pasta loves old things. Couches. Coffee tables. Rugs. Candlesticks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a very specific love for glassware,\u201d she said, gesturing to a table of dainty breakables inside a duplex-turned-retail store that opened in mid-September 2026 in East Dallas. The first items she bought for the store were antique wine glasses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How perfect: More than a place to buy thrifted treasures, Vintage Wine Bar is also a place to drink.<\/p>\n
Visitors can order a glass of wine, then traipse through the rooms filled with Pasta\u2019s eclectic picks from estate sales, resale shops, garage sales and Facebook Marketplace. The store feels like a friend\u2019s house, with mismatched chairs and lamps positioned around an old fireplace, and art hung on olive green and chocolate brown walls.<\/p>\n
Vintage Wine Bar has already become a meetup spot in Lakewood for mahjong games and women\u2019s happy hours. In addition to wine, the shop sells cheese-and-meat boards, bread, olives and cookies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some customers might grab a seat with friends and find themselves staying longer than a typical 15-minute shopping jaunt. Pull up a chair, Pasta tells them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s great about this furniture is it\u2019s all moveable,\u201d she said. And, it\u2019s all for sale.<\/p>\n
Pasta once put her funky collectibles in her own homes. She renovated three old houses in East Dallas in the past decade. Throughout that time, she worked full-time as the vice president of sales for a software company. She took a leave of absence in November 2025, looking for a change.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started Googling, \u2018How to relax after being chronically stressed,\u2019\u201d she said, laughing a little. \u201cI learned I was not very good at relaxing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two weeks later, Pasta had written a business plan to open a wine bar inside a vintage store. A month later, she was pregnant with her second child. It was a thrilling, busy and stressful year, Pasta said. Her baby was born 28 days before Vintage Wine Bar opened.<\/p>\n
About 70% of the bar\u2019s wines were made by female winemakers, a “women-supported” initiative that\u2019s important to Pasta. She isn\u2019t a wine expert \u2014 nor is she trained as an interior designer. \u201cI don\u2019t have a rule book,\u201d she said of picking vintage pieces. \u201cI buy what I love.\u201d It\u2019s true of the wine she drinks, too.<\/p>\n
As customers visit, some of Pasta\u2019s treasures will go home to new owners and she\u2019ll be left to fill empty corners with second-hand pieces once again. Pasta seems satisfied in her new artistic venture.<\/p>\n
\u201cI created something I can constantly redesign,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Vintage Wine Bar is at 5832 Live Oak St., Dallas. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Groups planning events can email events@vintagewinebardallas.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas entrepreneur Paige Pasta loves old things. Couches. Coffee tables. Rugs. Candlesticks. \u201cI have a very specific love…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[96022,102,104,103,89729,89276,89307,92202],"class_list":["post-471501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-business-retail","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-east-dallas","tag-tp-restaurant-openings","tag-tp-restaurants","tag-tp-winespirits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471501","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=471501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}