Brick and Bones is an essential Deep Ellum dive bar with a small side hustle kitchen serving some of the best fried chicken in the city. Here, the boring bird is marinated in a peppery Mexican brine, producing something wild and exciting. We’ve anointed it as one of the 100 best bars in Dallas, the best fried chicken in Dallas, as well as the best place for late-night grub. Crushing? Yeah, maybe.
Brick and Bones opened 10 years ago along Elm Street. It’s weathered a pandemic, DPD-imposed street closures, summer chaos, inflation and whatever else the neighborhood (or world) can throw at it. But you can’t keep a hot bird down, apparently.
“I had to get off Elm Street first and foremost,” says owner Cliff Edgar of his move two blocks over. “We needed a facelift. The Elm Street space was maybe a little too divey. The parking is on Commerce; there’s tons of it, as Elm Street had zero parking and was furthest from the music venues.”
On Saturday, we parked two easy blocks away for 86 cents (yes, 86 cents) at a meter. That was around 5 p.m. on a Saturday for two hours, so maybe don’t expect that later in the evening…