Steakhouse Near DFW Airport

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From the terminals: 360 south, 15 to 20 minutes

Leave the airport on Highway 360 south and stay on it to the E Lamar Blvd exit. Turn west, and the Brookhollow Two tower is about a mile along, with its own garage and outdoor lot. The whole trip is about 12 miles and 15 to 20 minutes in a rental car or a rideshare. Ride the elevator to the ninth floor and the doors say Mercury Chophouse, Suite 910.

An evening free near DFW

The airport hotels have restaurants, and they are fine for a sandwich. An evening free deserves a reason to drive, and this is it: a top-floor dining room just north of the Arlington Entertainment District, with a curved wall of floor-to-ceiling windows over AT&T Stadium about 1.5 miles away, Globe Life Field about a mile away, the Six Flags tower and the district hotels. It is the skyline most travelers have only seen on a football broadcast, and you are above it with a steak.

Sunset comes through the west end of the glass, around 8:35 PM in June and 5:25 PM in December, and a grand piano beside the windows is played on select evenings. White tablecloths, leather chairs and chandeliers finish the room. The layover page covers the tighter version of this evening.

Lunch counts as an evening free too, for a morning arrival: the lunch menu runs Monday through Friday from 11 AM, with the Center-Cut Filet Mignon 6 oz at $54, the Wagyu London Broil at $65 and the Chophouse Burger at $17, in the same room with the district in daylight.

Airport-area business dinners

When a team is flying in from both coasts, DFW is the meeting point and Mercury’s Boardroom is the table. It seats 8 to 20 at one long table with the windows behind it, and semi-private seating extends to 28. A fully integrated AV system and a large screen run the deck. One check is presented, the food and beverage minimum is quoted in the written proposal, and menus can be tailored to the group. The private dining request gets a reply within 48 hours.

Las Colinas is about 18 minutes from the same door and Grapevine about 13 miles, so colleagues based near the airport and colleagues arriving through it converge easily. The conference group dinner page goes into the logistics.

What to order when you have one night

With one dinner in Texas, order the thing you cannot get at home.

Pour something Texan alongside: Garrison Brothers Small Batch at $23 or Ironroot Harbinger at $20, both 2 oz. Finish with the Cherry & Pecan Bread Pudding at $16 or a Mexican Coffee with Arette Reposado at $16. The menu guide explains the cuts.

Dressing for it out of a suitcase

The dress code is business casual, and travel clothes mostly pass. Unripped jeans with a collared shirt are fine, and a sports coat is encouraged but not required; no jacket or tie is needed. What does not pass: athletic wear, hoodies, sweatpants, graphic T-shirts, baseball caps and beanies, flip-flops and slides. For women, yoga pants and loungewear are too casual. Hats come off at the table. Management can decline service for non-adherence, so change at the hotel if the flight was a hoodie kind of flight.

Getting back

Lamar east to Highway 360 north returns you to the airport in the same 15 to 20 minutes, outside stadium event traffic. The tower sits off the district’s main lots, so even on a Rangers night the road out is Lamar, not a stadium exit. The garage and the outdoor lot are both steps from the lobby, and both are free.

If the flight home is early the next morning, the drive back to an airport hotel is the same 20 minutes, and the restaurant’s 10 PM Friday and Saturday close leaves time for dessert first.