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CALLING ALL CRAFT BEER ENTHUSIASTS: Come experience Deep Ellum’s thriving craft beer scene! Our Deep Ellum Beer Tour takes you on a beer tasting adventure. We will visit 3 local breweries and learn about Dallas’ coolest neighborhood along the way. During our leisurely walk, your guide will dive into a rich history of music, speakeasies, and community, talk about the unique art that defines the area, and point out “can’t miss” photo ops! This experience is a perfect way to celebrate a birthday, a bachelor/bachelorette, a date night, or just a good ol’ fashioned afternoon out!
Deep Ellum is home to countless bars, restaurants, and music venues. Let us show you the best of the best!
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Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Dallas, United States
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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CALLING ALL CRAFT BEER ENTHUSIASTS: Come experience Deep Ellum’s thriving craft beer scene! Our Deep Ellum Beer Tour takes you on a beer tasting adventure. We will visit 3 local breweries and learn about Dallas’ coolest neighborhood along the way. During our leisurely walk, your guide will dive into a rich history of music, speakeasies, and community, talk about the unique art that defines the area, and point out “can’t miss” photo ops! This experience is a perfect way to celebrate a birthday, a bachelor/bachelorette, a date night, or just a good ol’ fashioned afternoon out!
Deep Ellum is home to countless bars, restaurants, and music venues. Let us show you the best of the best!
Itinerary
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Stop At: Deep Ellum (Deep Elm), Main Street, Dallas, TX 75226
Deep Ellum, which is Southern-ese for Deep Elm (the area’s original name) used to be a mecca for jazz and blues artists back in the late 1800s, after rebirth in 1920s, Deep Ellum was regarded as one of the first purposefully desegregated areas in the city. Nowadays this diverse enclave, located just a few blocks east of downtown, is one of the most historically and culturally significant neighborhoods in the city– boasting a thriving music scene, delectable eateries, fantastic breweries, art installations, and galleries, and one-of-a-kind shops. During our walk, we will stop at three establishments to enjoy the excellent quality of Depp Ellum’s local brews.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Traveling Man Sculpture at Deep Ellum, 2586 Gaston Ave, Dallas, TX 75226, USA
Part of The Traveling Man series (Walking Tall, Waiting For the Train, and Awakening) by artist Brad Oldham (we will visit all three sculptures during our walk), the sculptures serve as the ambassadors for the area and a reminder to visitors and locals alike of the neighborhood rich history and diversity and artistic creativity.
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Kimpton Pittman Hotel Dallas, 2551 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75226, USA
The Pittman Hotel is housed in the historical Knights of Pythias Temple, the first commercial Dallas building built by and for African-American professionals. Originally designed in 1916 by architect William Sidney Pittman — the notable son-in-law of Booker T. Washington — the original grandeur of the landmark has been restored and fused with contemporary new construction. Music legends “Blind Lemon” Jefferson and Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins once performed at the hotel’s grand ballroom.
Pass By: Truth & Alibi, 2618 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75226-1422
A bar with the candy store facade? What’s going on here? Part of a popular trend in Dallas bars right now: the speakeasy bar. The official/historical definition of a speakeasy is an illicit liquor store or nightclub that sprung up during the Prohibition era, when liquor sales were illegal. Fortunately for us, Prohibition was repealed in 1933. Truth and Alibis is a glorious example of a speakeasy with all sorts of amusing motifs, beginning with the trick facade, an elaborately designed, glass-enclosed, fake candy store with rows of gumballs and a little mushroom table.
Pass By: Trees, 2709 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75226-1425
Trees is among Deep Ellum’s most famouns music venues, since the early 90s famous acts such as Nirvana, Radiohead, Mazzy Star, The Afghan Whigs, Snoop Dogg, The Flaming Lips, and Post Malone, to name just a few, have solidified the iconic status of this music landmark.
Pass By: 2913 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75226, USA
Deep Ellum’s first murals and wall paintings started going up in the late 1980s as live music venues began advertising their upcoming shows by painting an ever-changing calendar on their walls. As muraling evolved, businesses and community stakeholders embraced the art form as a staple of Deep Ellum. With over 130 murals covering the neighborhood, “I Love You” by Dusty Gilpin is one of the area’s most popular walls and a perfect plain old Instagram shoot.
Pass By: Adam Hats Lofts, 2700 Canton St, Dallas, TX 75226, USA
Adam Hats, was an American manufacturer and retailer of hats, based in Deep Ellum, the building that housed the factory is one of the most recognizable structures in the neighborhood. Other historically recognized buildings in the area include Robert S. Munger’s first cotton gin factory, the Continental Gin Company, and Henry Ford’s earliest automobile plants known today as the Bomb Factory.
