Restaurant Week comes to Main Street Grapevine, and brings $39 prime rib and dessert
DFW Restaurant Week’s $49 dinners are a good deal.
But a $39 prime rib dinner with dessert is an even better deal, and that’s what you’ll find through Sept. 13 for DFW Restaurant Week at Mac’s on Main in Grapevine.
Owner Rena Frost is undercutting the prime steak and seafood houses. Her 34-year steakhouse, near the TEXRail station at 909 S. Main St., is offering its signature 8-ounce prime rib or grilled Scottish salmon dinners for $39.
The prime rib dinner includes a baked potato, and both dinners include salad or gumbo and dessert. Other choices include a tenderloin Oscar, grilled snapper or a New York strip.
“We’ll let the big steakhouses be the big steakhouses,” she said on a recent Eats Beat podcast.
“We’re going to be the little independent that people visit twice a week, not once a month.”
The $39 special is one of two in Grapevine as part of the 24th annual restaurant promotion, with 10% of each meal going to the Lena Pope children’s agency.
Ferrari’s Italian Villa and Chop House is also offering a $39 special, with a choice of five entrees including lobster Thermidor.
For Grapevine, a tourist city, this has been a slow spring and summer. GrapeFest later this month was canceled, and the showy new Hotel Vin downown isn’t quite open yet.
For a few weeks, Fort Worth and Dallas families came trying out the TEXRail airport train, but that has dwindled. The city’s wine tasting rooms have remained closed.
“Some of my wonderful neighbors have had a hard time” in retail, Frost said.
“But people are out on the weekends. The patios are available, and Grapevine’s letting us use sidewalks ... We see a little bit of improvement but we feel bad for our little retail shops.”
During Restaurant Week, the popular prime rib special is the centerpiece.
But the dinner also comes with a choice of desserts including a gluten-free chocolate cake from Haute Sweets Patisserie in Dallas.
Another dessert is an apple galette with cinnamon ice cream from Plano-based Henry’s Homemade Ice Cream.
Mac’s other customer favorite isn’t on the $39 special because it’s not that expensive.
The restaurant is singularly known for a West Texas-style chicken-fried streak with pan gravy ($14.95 with potatoes).
It’s open for lunch or brunch and dinner daily; 817-251-6227, http://www.macsteak.com.
An Arlington location offers many of the same menu items but is not part of the Restaurant Week promotion; 6077 Interstate 20 West, 817-572-0541.
This story was originally published August 31, 2020 at 5:45 AM.
