Herrera’s, Coal Vines, Little Katana are added to menu at city-owned Omni hotel downtown

The City of Dallas Wednesday approved leases to bring three popular Dallas restaurants and one new flavor to the former grassy strip outside of the Omni Dallas Hotel downtown. Coal Vines pizza, Little Katana Sushi, Herrera’s Tex-Mex restaurant and the new Bier Garden on Lamar are expected to open by fall of 2015, above a 350-space underground parking garage. The $27 million project is being funded with money not spent during construction of the city-owned hotel, which opened in November of 2011. The addition will bring to seven the number of restaurants at the Omni site, which already is home to Texas Spice, a Bob’s Steak & Chop House and the Owners Box sports bar. After the hotel was...