A Pair of Restaurants to Watch Are Coming to Las Colinas

A little bit of Monaco is coming to Las Colinas. On September 16, Monaco Restaurant will open in the Water Street area, facing Lake Carolyn.

David Lamberti, the owner of Lamberti’s Ristorante in Irving, is opening a place that takes its influence from the French Riviera and serves New American cuisine. You can get in for the open date. However, according to a press release, it is doing a limited menu through August and will be open for lunch, brunch, and dinner starting in mid-September.

A preview of the menu includes tartare of filet, burrata, and prosciutto with housemade salsa verde; hamachi crudo made with citrus gelee, fresno, and culantro; Neapolitan pizzas including Margherita; chicken liver salad; pork boudin; Moroccan beef cheek; and the redfish marsala pictured below, served with onion marsala and wood ear mushroom on a bed of celery root puree and served with sorrel greens.

Monaco Restaurant

Chef John Tesar was breaking news on main over the weekend to Eater Dallas. In a tweet, Tesar showed some photos of his research and development on Knife Italian, which is coming to the future Ritz Carlton at Las Colinas — a report has the group who purchased the Four Seasons replacing it with this property sometime in 2023.

Among Tesar’s creations is a lobster pizza — no surprise to anyone who read Eater Dallas’s profile of Knife Dallas, where Tesar professed his interest in bringing more seafood to the menu. Knife Italian has also been showing off some future dishes on Instagram. Highlights include toasted potato gnocchi with seaweed butter, truffle hand-rolled garganelli, and inky black bucatini.