Drink recipes · Menu report

We read 145 Dallas cocktail menus. Here is what the city actually pours.

July 2026 · 342 venues scanned · 2,329 cocktails cataloged. Every figure below comes from our own scan of Dallas drink menus: what is on them, what it costs, and how it is made.

The Dallas cocktail menu, by the numbers
68%
of bars pour a margarita
$11.25
median margarita price
2,329
cocktails cataloged
145 menu-scanned bars of 342 venues in the dataset, July 2026 snapshot.

The five drinks Dallas sells most

1

Margarita

99 of 145 menu-scanned bars (68%) · median $11.25 · avg $11.55
68%99 bars
2

Old Fashioned

51 of 145 menu-scanned bars (35%) · median $13.5 · avg $13.76
35%51 bars
3

Moscow Mule

44 of 145 menu-scanned bars (30%) · median $12 · avg $14.57
30%44 bars
4

Espresso Martini

33 of 145 menu-scanned bars (23%) · median $13 · avg $13.35
23%33 bars
5

Paloma

32 of 145 menu-scanned bars (22%) · median $13.5 · avg $13.22
22%32 bars

What a margarita costs in Dallas

163 priced margaritas across the scan. The spread runs from under $8 to $16 and up, often for the same three-ingredient build.

Under $8
20
$8 to $10
19
$10 to $12
52
$12 to $14
32
$14 and up
40

One pattern worth naming: four of the five drinks Dallas sells most are shaken or built to order, drink by drink. The city's favourite cocktails are also its slowest, which is why the price spread above is so wide: labour sits inside every pour. If you run a bar and want to sanity-check your own menu math, the pour-cost calculator uses this dataset's medians as its defaults.

Explore the data

The 10 best margarita bars in Dallas

Ranked from this dataset.

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The 10 best espresso martini bars in Dallas

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The 10 best moscow mule bars in Dallas

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From the team behind the scan
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Method: public cocktail menus and listings, scanned July 2026; prices as printed. Next snapshot adds the price index (what moved since this one).Press or trade: cite freely with a link. Ask for the full cut →
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