{"id":75621,"date":"2025-12-04T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/75621\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:59:21","slug":"dallas-rudest-restaurant-has-closed-after-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/75621\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas\u2019 rudest restaurant has closed after 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States\u2019 first Dick\u2019s Last Resort, an irreverent restaurant that opened in 1985 in Dallas, has closed. <\/p>\n

For 40 years, the restaurant\u2019s sassy servers slung drinks and bar food in Dallas\u2019 West End. The purposefully rude service \u2014 meant as a joke, for those who can take one \u2014 made it one of the few places in town where the customer was almost never right. Dick\u2019s most iconic feature is its hats, scrawled on by servers and handed out, with slogans like Future Teen Mom, Football Team Booty Call and other insults, as shown on the Dick\u2019s Dallas Instagram page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More recently, Dick\u2019s ran a \u201cbig meat challenge\u201d for $79.99, where customers were dared to eat two large steaks, \u201cDick\u2019s huge 12-inch weiner,\u201d a Macho Nacho appetizer, salad, two sides of cheddar mashed potatoes and two orders of broccoli in an hour. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you die in the process,\u201d reads the website, you still pay. (If not? Dinner\u2019s free.)<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat fans were in for a surprise at Dick’s Last Resort, a restaurant a few blocks from the American Airlines Center, when a 2011 sign suggested they pay double.<\/p>\n

Star-Telegram\/Paul Moseley<\/p>\n

CultureMap reported<\/a> the news first of this longtime Dallas restaurant\u2019s closure. <\/p>\n

Dick\u2019s occupied an area on Dallas\u2019 Lamar Street considered sordid by some, as Dallas\u2019 first Hooters restaurant opened around the corner in 1989. Hooters just reopened after a fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We want to know: What will they do with all the stuff on the walls at Dick’s Last Resort in Dallas?<\/p>\n

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It isn\u2019t known yet what will become of the nearly 5,000-square-foot restaurant space near the American Airlines Center and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. According to CultureMap, the restaurant closed because sales in Dallas were declining and rent was expected to go up.<\/p>\n

The company grew across the United States for decades, though only one remains in Texas, in San Antonio. <\/p>\n

Other Dick\u2019s Last Resort restaurants exist today in Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Indiana and Nevada.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s goodbye to \u201ca true embarrassment to the West End District,\u201d as The Dallas Morning News said of Dick\u2019s in its inaugural year. The narrative softened a little by 1990: Dick\u2019s became \u201cthat West End pocket of human curiosities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dick\u2019s Last Resort was at 2211 N. Lamar St., Dallas.<\/p>\n