Son of a Butcher will sling sliders next week on Greenville Avenue

Photography by Jaime Dunaway-Seale

Son of a Butcher will sling sliders starting Monday in the former Melios Bros Char Bar space on Greenville Avenue.

Front Burner Restaurants, the hospitality group behind Velvet Taco and Whiskey Cake, purchased the space at 2026 Greenville Ave. after longtime neighborhood restaurant Char Bar closed in September 2019. The Son of a Butcher location on Greenville will be the brand’s second. The first opened in Plano’s Legacy Hall last year.

The menu features sliders made with wagyu beef that customers can mix and match. Try the burnt ends slider with smoked brisket, gouda, caramelized onions, house barbecue sauce and chipotle mayo or the PB&J with blackberry jam, bacon, crunchy peanut butter, American cheese and caramelized onions.

The Greenville location will also include several pork and chicken items, such as the meatball slider with marinara sauce, basil and provolone and the Nashville hot chicken slider with pimento cheese, hot sauce and pickle.

There are several waffle fry options loaded with different cheeses and toppings and a creative lineup of shakes ranging from lemon meringue and pistachio mint to cookie butter.

The interior features white tile and industrial lighting that makes the space look and feel like an old butchery. The building’s iconic three peaks remain, although the bright blue paint has been replaced with a clean white. Son of a Butcher pays homage to Char Bar with pops of blue scattered throughout the restaurant.

“It’s important that we fit in the neighborhood and not try to change it,” said Brian Watkins, vice president of operations for Front Burner.

The City of Dallas approved a zoning change application that allowed Son of a Butcher to build an outdoor, pet-friendly patio that includes plenty of picnic tables and faux grass. Customers sitting outside can soon enjoy a new mural on the side of the former Tacos Mariachi building next door. Son of a Butcher is partnering with Booker T. Washington art students on the mural, which will feature Char Bar and a history of Lower Greenville.

Son of a Butcher will open at 50 percent capacity for dinner service for the first two weeks and expand to lunch Dec. 28.

“We’re excited about opening,” Watkins said. “We’re not going to pretend that [the pandemic] it’s happening. We’re just going to do our thing. A lot of businesses have closed, and I think people are excited about something new.”