Café Duro Press

A neighborhood favorite with artisanal coffee and a cozy, polished vibe. Perfect for both casual catch-ups and laptop sessions.

Dallas’ culinary scene is unstoppable, and each year we celebrate the city’s top restaurant and bar talent with the annual CultureMap Tastemaker Awards. Recently, we revealed the 2026 event dates and released a limited number of discounted tickets, and now it’s time for the anticipated unveiling of our Dallas nominees.

A sibling to adjacent restaurant Sister on Greenville Avenue, Café Duro feels plucked straight from Italy, with marble tabletops and china that seems borrowed from a nonna. You can sip a tidy espresso and indulge in a pastry. It’s a place to sit, observe, and feel transported, even if only briefly. Upstairs, the three-room guest house Casa Duro has been awarded a Michelin Key. Just sayin’.

We love the charming nods to European cafes that define this Greenville Avenue spot’s overall vibe, but we really go to Cafe Duro for the food and drink. Try the pumpkin pecan nitro latte or the prickly pear matcha. The espresso menu is fairly minimalist, making ordering easy. If you love to have something sweet alongside your drink as much as we do, try the offering that won our 2023 title for Best Chocolate Chip Cookie. Still hungry? Order a muffuletta that our very own food editor described as “borderline criminal.”

Enjoy a quiet espresso, European-style — sitting down and chatting with a friend. This marble-laden spot on Greenville is a beautiful place to perk up your morning. And if you’d like to sit, eat, or stay awhile, customers have access to the porch of Sister next door.

Café Duro is a new spot along Greenville right next to its sister restaurant, aptly called Sister, which was previously The Grape. Duro Hospitality has taken over both spaces and is, according to a recent press release, embarking on a “rapid expansion” of concepts “unlike any other in Dallas,” which is a bold statement because we certainly have a bevy of concepts.

June is starting off strong with some of Dallas’ newest gems in the food industry. This month’s latest spots include your new summer hangout spot, a highly anticipated cafe on Lower Greenville, and still many more still to come this month!

Duro Hospitality, whose portfolio includes beloved hot spots The Charles, Bar Charles, and Sister, is proud to announce the opening of their new concept on Greenville Avenue: Café Duro. Café Duro is adjacent to its restaurant Sister and bring a unique personality to the East Dallas neighborhood.

Right next door to Sister, a cafe has quietly opened. It’s a neighborhood cafe with coffee, including their own in-house brand, which you can buy in bags, wine, paninis, and pizzitas. And it is very possibly the most charming spot on Greenville Avenue. Cafe Duro is from the Duro Hospitality Group, which is behind Sister and the Charles.

t’s been an unprecedented two years since Bon Appétit named Dallas the 2019 Restaurant City of the Year. But even through a pandemic, our city’s dining scene has persevered. With the overwhelming amount of recent openings (particularly in Deep Ellum, Bishop Arts, and downtown), it’s easy to forget that many in the industry are still struggling, but Texas restaurants have been innovating to provide the comfort food — and cocktails — we need. Now, it’s time to look forward to the Dallas restaurant news ahead.

A cosmopolitan new market-cafe-wine bar has opened on Greenville Avenue. It’s from Duro Hospitality, whose portfolio consists of the favorite eating places of The Charles, Bar Charles and Sister, and is open at 2804 Greenville Ave., conveniently adjoining to its sibling restaurant, Sister.

There’s a cosmopolitan new market-coffeeshop-wine bar open on Greenville Avenue: Called Cafe Duro, it’s from Duro Hospitality, whose portfolio includes beloved restaurants The Charles, Bar Charles, and Sister, and is open at 2804 Greenville Ave., conveniently adjacent to its sibling restaurant Sister.

Café Duro is located next door to Sister, which opened in the spot that used to house The Grape. The press release announcing the concept said it would offer coffee, pastries, wine, house-made pasta, pre-cut meats, charcuterie, cheese, pastries, paninis, home goods and more.

Highland Park Soda Fountain was a Dallas treasure, first opening as a pharmacy in 1912 and later as a soda fountain. It closed back in 2018. Now, the old soda shop on 3229 Knox Street will find new life under Duro Hospitality Group, CultureMap Dallas reports. Duro was founded in 2020, and includes Design District favorites The Charles, Bar Charles, and Greenville Avenue restaurant Sister.