Cafe Olivia is giving downtown Dallas a place to take a breath. The wellness-focused cafe opens Tuesday inside the newly renovated Dallas Arts Tower, bringing chef-driven, seed-oil-free breakfast and lunch plates, an espresso-and-matcha program, and a short cocktail list to the heart of the Arts District. Think of it as a calm, design-forward daytime refuge for office workers and museum-hoppers who are over sad desk lunches.
New Downtown Outpost At Dallas Arts Tower
The new location lands in the 55-story landmark tower at 2200 Ross Ave., part of a years-long, multimillion-dollar push to rebrand and overhaul the former Chase Tower, as reported by The Dallas Morning News. Lobby upgrades were planned to fold in restaurants, gallery space, and added street-level amenities, all in an effort to make the skyscraper feel less like a sealed-off office block and more like a place people actually want to linger.
Opening Day And Hours
The downtown Cafe Olivia opens Tuesday with weekday hours and a full breakfast and lunch setup, according to the Dallas Observer. Breakfast runs 7 to 10:45 a.m., lunch goes from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the menu spans sandwiches, entrees, grab-and-go options, and signature espresso- and matcha-based drinks. Among the headliners: the Golden Hour and a Matcha Martini priced at $12.
A Menu Built Around Clean Ingredients
The concept leans hard into clean, seed-oil-free cooking. Cafe Olivia says it prioritizes organic, grass-fed, and locally sourced ingredients whenever possible, and its materials spotlight a cooking style that skips common vegetable oils in favor of olive oil, avocado oil, and butter. The pitch is everyday wellness rather than strict dieting, with technique and sourcing framed as the foundation for feeling a bit better about that second latte.
Who Is Behind Cafe Olivia
Cafe Olivia is the first concept from On Brand Hospitality, co-owned by Torry Cray and Adrian Verdin. The company debuted its original North Dallas location last fall, in what coverage described as the brand’s launch. DiningOut reports that the owners built the idea around an accessible, design-forward daytime cafe and that the brand partners with local purveyors, including True Harvest, Jersey Girls Dairy, and Cedar Ridge Eggs.
What This Adds To The Arts District
Planting a wellness-focused, daytime cafe in the tower lobby lines up with the building owner’s bigger strategy to turn Dallas Arts Tower into a livelier, tenant- and visitor-friendly destination, a move covered when the property was rebranded and repositioned for new retail and dining. Dallas Innovates noted those renovation plans when the new name and direction were announced.
Cafe Olivia’s downtown hours are listed as Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the new cafe at 2200 Ross Ave., per the Dallas Observer. The original location remains at 14551 Dallas Pkwy Ste. 100, and its phone number and regular hours are posted on Cafe Olivia’s website.
