D.L. Mack's used to be one of our favorite restaurants. The quality has unfortunately plummeted. Food on the menu has either changed distributors or has been taken off and service is no longer up to par. When we asked to speak to the manager who had been there for years, we were told she was no longer with the company. Figures. Probably won't be back anymore. read more

Service was not great, we were charged the wrong amount to our card even after we told our server Jibrel. We got a double drink even though we didn't ask for it, we had to ask our server for silverware and napkins since we never got them, and food was just ok. The place is pretty nice, I would say more for Date night. We are not planning to go back. read more

Ambiance was trendy and upbeat. Seated promptly with a reservation. Service was friendly, courteous, and helpful with menu selections. Chicken Parm, outstanding. Ceasars salad very enjoyable, and the Italian mob was loaded with good meats, veggies, and Italian dressing and spices. The mob sandwich only dissapointed in that it was cold. I was expecting it to be a hot sandwich. It was still good but not among the best. Drinks were punctual and we'll poured. All in all it was a 4.5 evening and enjoyable. It even got exciting with a Heinrich maneuver performed by my son, on a gentleman across the isle in a neighboring booth. That also ended well with. An errant piece of pepporoni expelled back onto the plate from a patron's standing position while in a reverse bear hug. An eventful night and good food with some table side first aide. read more

I was super impressed with the food, the service and my drink at DL Mack's. The spicy margarita is no joke-- if you aren't a fan of spice I would steer clear because this drink is the real deal but I loved it! For lunch I had the Italian combo and the fries and they were very flavorful and delicious. The fries are very thin but coated in seasoning. I'm not usually a fan of thin fries but whatever seasoning they used made them irresistible! read more

DL Macks - Spicy margarita - New American Near Me - Dallas, Texas

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I am going back between 2 & 3 stars. We came early evening for a quick dinner with my Hubby, MIL & BIL. The service was good(Chris?) and the atmosphere inviting. We ordered a bottle of Mount Veeder for my Hubby and I, which was deliciousness! My BIL ordered a margarita, tasty...the lime zest was a great attention to detail. Food was hit or miss. Where the spinach dip was tasty. It was on the small side per the price. The veal meatballs were also yummy, but overcooked and at $4.25 a piece...also on the high side. And they were tiny too. My MIL ordered a smoked salmon, as her entree, yummy. My BIL ordered the Chicken Parmesan also yummy. Hubby & I ordered the Return of the Mack pizza. It was tasty, but super spicy, so be warned. Where we adore spicy this pizza was on the hot side for us. We also ordered the Greek Salad to split, waaaay too much salt and acid, AND overdressed with vinaigrette...Swimming!!!!! Also there was hardly any feta! Inedible, wish we had asked for it to be taken off our ticket! Waste of $15. Mixed emotions on our visit. At this price point, the food should, could have been better. read more

First of all, the food was so good! They have a good variety of options here and it's nice and good quality but not too pricey! It took a little long to get the food after ordering but the vibes were good inside! Def recommend- I feel like it's not that well known so it doesn't get crazy busy (at least when i've been) read more

If you miss the Hillstone flying chicken platter, you've come to the right place. DL's chicken tenders are basically a copy cat recipe and very yummy. The honey mustard is amazing; super sweet and no bitter aftertaste. The brownie is definitely not the same as Hillstone's old recipe - more of a flourless cake taste and filled with raisins which we hated. The service however, brought my score down from 5 to 3. The host had an attitude, we showed up 15 minutes early for our reservation and he made sure we knew "just how early" we were and was very dramatic about having to seat us even though there were plenty of empty tables. When we sat down, I accidentally knocked over my tea and spilled some on the floor and table. The server picked up the ice cubes out of the floor / walkway and cleaned it - but never helped us with the table or gave us napkins / towel to help dry the table. We had to ask twice for more napkins just to have a dry table to eat on. Overall, the food was excellent but I felt very judged and out of place by the waitstaff. Their attitudes made us feel like we were a pain to be served and "not good enough" for their restaurant. Probably will not be back because of this. read more

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This place is AWESOME!!!! Late lunch deviled eggs and a pizza and a sweet tea. I want to try everything on this menu!! read more

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Any restaurant from this hospitality group has been flavorful, trendy, and inviting. We frequently visit Hudson house in Irving because it's that good so we decided to give this place a try and we are so glad we did! Y'all don't miss a mark From the drinks food to ambiance. Next on our list from this hospitality group is drake so stay turned for another review. read more

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DL Mack's is fantastic. If you like thin and crispy bar pizza it's the best pizza in Dallas. The ambiance is outstanding the service was above and beyond and overall it was a perfect experience and we will 100% be returning soon. read more

DL Macks - Pepperoni, red onion, jalapeños, and hot honey pizza - New American Near Me - Dallas, Texas

Food is good, atmosphere is pleasant. Have eaten in and had delivery and quality is great either way.

Unfortunately, I was not able to sample the menu so I can only review on venue, staff and service. They advertised reservations recommended but walk in welcome. After arriving Friday night at 730 with a half empty restaurant the host said they are completely booked with reservations and we could not be seated for hours. I asked for something to go. They are unable to offer food to go. I asked for the manager. The host politely tracked him down. Dennis the manager advised there would be nothing he could do for us and was unwilling to even offer any other solutions. I felt Dennis had a polite tone at first but was quick to dismiss me and my family. However, here are great pics of the restaurant. Hopefully next time they will accommodate more than reservation and welcome the locals to enjoy. A few TVs lots of ambience and the host was very polite. Menu is yet to be decided. Two things are for sure 1. Make reservations 2. Don't expect the normal Chicago menu or hospitality from management. read more

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I decided to stop by this place one Sunday after church and it was great. My waitress was nice and recommended all the good things. Great music, drinks and food. What more can you ask for? read more

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This is such an awesome new place right by SMU! Everything there was delicious and has such a cozy vibe! The meatball pizza was to die for and the Caesar salad was excellent! Will be back again soon! read more

DL Macks - Delicious old fashion! - New American Near Me - Dallas, Texas

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We mostly had drinks but they were not good at all. Also Ordered the deviled eggs and they were a bit rubbery. Love the ambience.

It's got an odd menu, and the food is terrible now. Drinks are overpriced and awful too. It's "concept" as a Chicago style bistro falls flat. Who wants this in Dallas anyway? Epic fail for Vandalay read more

Highland Park meets Chicago! Came here to enjoy the half off house martinis on a Thursday evening. We tried the lemon drop, bleu & gold and finished off with the espresso martini. The lemon drop was the best choice! For dinner we tried the cheeseburger and the Harry Caray pizza. The cheeseburger was good although the pizza was nothing special. If we would've paid full price I would've felt we overpaid. All in all, this is a good spot! The service was excellent, restaurant is well maintained and the location is great! read more

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The food and ambiance were great! The spicy pasta was the star for me. Worth a try if you're in the Dallas area. read more

DL Macks - Truffle chicken pizza and spicy vodka pasta - New American Near Me - Dallas, Texas

I don't usually write reviews. My husband and I dropped in craving Pizza. Sat at the bar and split a Cezar Salad and a Bill Murray pizza. Excellent!!! No complaints at all! So good! Our Grandaughter texted and asked us to bring her a Vodka Pasta with Chicken, so we got that to go. When we got home, we realized the chicken was missing. I called and they were so apologetic, and reimbursed the Pasta dish. Honestly it was the principal of the thing. I was just impressed that they stood behind and reimbursed. I will be back!!!!!!! Also their happy hour drinks are very nice! read more

Food was delicious! The patio seating was great to watch football on Sunday! Service was amazing. Will be back read more

DL Macks - New American Near Me - Dallas, Texas

My husband and I went to DL Macks last Friday for dinner and had a wonderful experience all around! We were seated on the patio, which I was initially disappointed about, but the service and casual ambiance ended up being great. We ordered the deviled eggs, Caesar salad with chicken, and chicken fingers with fries. All were delicious! I absolutely loved the Caesar - it was not your average Caesar salad. Will definitely be going back. read more

This place is great! Really awesome vibe overall. The service was fast and attentive and the food was delicious. My wife and I moved from Plano area and have been looking for a new pizza place to replace our old go to spot. (they do serve non-pizza items as well!) DL Mack's filled that void! Pizza was well cooked and plenty of toppings for the prices and my wife's blue cheese martini was the best I've ever had! No complaints read more

The food at the Hillcrest venue is much less desirable than the North Dallas one. The pizza is good but all else pales. I had the Chicken Parmesan and had two bites, could stand no more. It was overcooked, and the pasta sauce had a very odd, unpalatable taste to it, just gross. Good service and good ambiance, but food needs attention. read more

finally, great pizza and great spicy rigatoni. You no longer have to go to Carbones and pay $70 for rigatoni. This place is spectacular. The delivery was within 30 minutes at 7 o'clock on a Saturday evening. It is certainly worth trying. To put it frankly I was overwhelmed. Haven't lived in Chicago and New York City for decades This was fantastic. read more

Spontaneously booked a reservation here because I saw an article listing some of the best spicy rigatoni dishes in Dallas. Drinks: We ordered the lemon drop martini (the limoncello foam was so good I had to order a second), spicy margaritas (the best I've had in Dallas, and I'm snob when it comes to these as I live in Austin), and finished with the espresso martini (the banana / hazelnut twist added a great extra something)! Food: We split the spinach dip, meatballs, spicy rigatoni and Italian salad. Everything was great, the spinach dip was maybe a little too spinach heavy, borderline less dip, but regardless I am definitely excited to come back and explore the other menu items. You can tell that this place values a classically refined menu, and the atmosphere was very nostalgic and elevated. The staff was exceptional and not overbearing, excited for my next visit! read more

Long time fan of Drake's and Hudson House, so had to check out DL Macks! Stopped in for lunch mid-week, was able to grab a reservation but arrived 30 minutes early and was seated right away. We started with the fries, which were thick cut wedges of crispy fluffiness! They were served with 3 sauces, one being ketchup, but the green sauce was by far the favorite. Only downside is the amount of fries for the price. Would've liked a bit more of them. I had the cheeseburger which was delicious. Can tell why it's a favorite. My wife had the chicken tenders. She didn't care too much for them unfortunately. I also tried the Negroni, and found it to be well made and the presentation was great! read more

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Really not great. Ordered delivery through DoorDash and regret it. Two stars because it was edible but the wings were seriously lackluster and the "Mack sauce" is just buffalo which I can not eat. The Spinach Artichoke Dip is okay after some doctoring but these prices are seriously outlandish for the value read more

Place has potential. This presents as more of an upscale restaurant so caution- things may have excessive costs. Example: a coke is only served as a glass bottle (small one) and is 3.00. Pizza has potential. They claim crispy thin crust. Well ... they are on their way. Crust was thin. Sadly it was only crispy at the very edges. Having had crusts this style before, they aren't too far off the mark. Just need to work on it. Used quality sausage. Good pepperoni that crisps a little at the end. Staff appears nice. Small space. No baby seats of any kind. Parking lot is small. read more

DL Macks - Pizza - half sausage/pep - New American Near Me - Dallas, Texas

Overall DL Mack's is a great spot. It's sort of a hidden gem and never too crowded. The food and service is excellent. I will definitely be back soon! read more

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This was place amazing. First time here and Emily was our waiter. She has now set the bar so high for this place and customer service. She gave us all the details and helped us make sure we ordered what we liked! She was attentive and extremely kind! If you haven't come here, COME HERE! read more

They had the whole patio booked during happy hr which I'm sure is against their policy.

DO BETTER VANDELAY We at ate the Hillcrest location Saturday evening and have never been more physically hot and uncomfortable in a restaurant. I don't know how our awesome server- Emily, was even working. It was well above 80 degrees in the dining room and the humidity so high everything was slippery. Some other friends came in, and when they felt the temperature and heard our misery first hand, all six of them left. My wife and her friend, as well as countless others were fanning themselves with menus. Thankfully Emily brought us cool towels- very helpful! I'm can only imagine how the customers on the patio felt, let alone the poor servers dressed in those ridiculous uniforms based on the heat. Good food and recommendations were on point as usual, but did not make up for the atmosphere. Gross experience had by all. read more

Decided to come here for our anniversary dinner and we were let down and disappointed by the end of our meal. The service was okay, nothing spectacular. We started off with our favorite Mack's fries and were deeply saddened when they came out not crispy and lukewarm, as if they have been sitting out for some time. This is what we were looking forward to the most.... We also ordered their house special chicken tender platter which was very popular...and honestly I'm not sure how. The chicken tenders came out soggy and not crispy at all. The breading was also very thick, chewy, and not appetizing to eat. The coleslaw was also very tasteless and had no seasoning. We were expecting more, especially since it was $18 for chicken tenders. We also ordered a pepperoni pizza and thankfully that saved our meal. It is one of our favorite pizzas and the only good thing that we enjoyed. We will not come back to this location.... read more

What a refreshingly brilliant experience. Most of the restaurants in this area save two or three have been around for decades, and new comers are often short lived or fall short of the mark. D.L. Mack's is here to stay. Their menu is a brilliant addition of flavors that the surrounding restaurants are sorely missing. White Truffle chicken and honey pizza with a cream sauce and fresh arugula. YES! Finally someone is brave with flavor and it is paying off. The attention to detail, portions, freshness of ingredients, wait staff, ambiance, quality of kitchen staff, and consistency of incredibly flavor across the entire menu has me proud. This. Is. Dining. The traditional culinary excellence in the kitchen is flexible to cater the pallet of the modern America, and delivers. Bravo, I cannot wait to come again. read more

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My family and I just had the best experience at DL Mack's. The food was solid, but the service, in a word, was outstanding. There were seven in our party and we were celebrating my parents' 63rd anniversary. We were seated early which was a very nice start to our evening. Throughout the service, the entire waitstaff was extremely attentive - not just our server who was taking good care of us, but other servers that were also checking in on us. That was remarkable given that the restaurant was very busy. Plus they clearly had a lot of pickup orders, too! The manager (Chris or Kris), whom I could see was on top of everything all evening, also made it a point to check in on us and make sure we were okay given how busy the restaurant was. She didn't have to do that. She also came by later to personally wish my parents a happy anniversary. We weren't in a private room situation or anything like that. We just had a regular table, but between Chris and her personal touch, and the attentive waitstaff, we felt like VIPs. We actually live closer to the D.L. Mack's in Preston Hollow, but we'll be heading to the Hillcrest location from now on because the service was just that tremendous. Thank you to Chris and team for a wonderful experience. read more

Ben is the best server ever!!! I will be a regular customer just to sit in Ben's section. I came here about 7 on a Thursday and didn't make a reservation and had to wait 45 minutes. My date and I walked over to Foxtrot across the street and grabbed a glass of wine while we waited. We came back 45 minutes and only had to wait a minute or so for our table to be cleaned. The star of the show is Ben. He was just super cute and nice. Great knowledge of the menu. On the menu, they had a section for sandwiches and under it was a Chicago style hotdog. Now, that's pretty controversial calling a hotdog a sandwich, so naturally I had to ask every employee at the restaurant if they think a hotdog is a sandwich. The verdict is no, but then the rumor mill is saying it's being taken off the menu anyway?? Also as I mentioned, this is a Chicago themed restaurant. I just started watching The Bear on Hulu so I also felt the need to ask every employee if they had watched the show and if working at this restaurant was similar. Unfortunately, Ben our server had not watched the show. We ordered the garlic knots which were nothing special. Ben told us they inject them with butter so the middle is super buttery. Honestly, they were extremely mediocre but I had one leftover the next day for breakfast and it tasted 100 times better, but it was still only like a 6/10. We got the mozzarella sticks, too. They looked huge on Instagram but in reality they were just normal sized. Were they worth $12 for 5 sticks? Absolutely NOT!!!! The stars of the show were my frozen Paloma (it was sooo strong in the best way possible) and the honey truffle chicken pizza. The pizzas are surprisingly huge and the chicken on the pizza was fried in tempura batter and sooo good! The pizza was also topped with arugula and a honey and truffle sauce. Honestly I ate the chicken and then the arugula and then pizza. Arugula does not belong on pizza. While writing this review, I did see they finally changed their menu and spoiler alert: the hot dog was taken off the menu, RIP. We were too full for dessert but my date did order a Miller lite and it came with a pint glass that had a picture of DL Mack. DL looks like a baby holding a martini which is kinda weird. Also I found out there is no DL Mack and the founder of the restaurant just thought it was a cool name. Lame. TL;DR - ask to sit in Ben's section and order a frozen Paloma and get a pizza read more

Great Happy Hour! Very tasty pizzas! We always sit at the bar and have had great service each visit. This is a great date night restaurant! read more

Wanted to love this place because I love the other Vandeley restaurants but DL Macks does not live up to the others. The service and manager were awful. The manager didn't take our requests seriously even when I talked to him about them. The food and drinks are good but be careful what they sell you on happy hour...make sure it's actually covered in the happy hour prices. read more

Had lunch with 2 friends. Only one of us ordered a cocktail(thank goodness). She ordered a mojito, it came with no mint . Then my friend requested mint and the server brought some over and says" it should be okay. There's some black around the edges. But it will be okay). Really? I tried to order the hotdog, one of there signature dishes and they didn't have any. How hard is it to procure a hotdog? So then I ordered a salad , pretty tasty but it almost fell apart before he served it to me. Servers were nice but not particularly on it- I wish them luck but doubt I'll be back. read more

Everything was incredible! The food was great! The tenders and pizza were super tasty! We were blown away by the service. It was outstanding. Our waitress, Emily, went above and beyond. She was super courteous and very knowledgeable! Will definitely come back. read more