Subject: Simon McDonald

• Yeah, About the Meridian Room? It's Reopening Next Month.

  October 16, 2008

• The Libertine Launches All-Local Music Monday Nights

  No one's gonna mistake Lower Greenville's The Libertine for a live music venue--DJ nights and Scaraoke aside--but anyone who's ever spent a few minutes in this phenomenal establishment knows two things: a) As Lower Greenville bars go, The Libertine's over-PA playlist is tops, and b) the people who put the playlist together aren't scared of tossing a bunch of local music takes into the fray. So it makes sense then, that The Libertine has decided to take things a little bit further. Bar owner

  November 13, 2008

• Scaraoke Boasted Some Actual Talent Last Night

  The folks in attendance last night at "Scaraoke", the weekly Thursday night karaoke event hosted at the Libertine, got to bear witness to something of a treat: Rhett Miller joining in on the festivities.Or so the reputable Simon McDonald, the bar's owner, tells DC9 via an email: "The very gracious and always humble Rhett Miller just walked into the Libertine... and did a funtastic version of 'Ziggy Stardust'."Joining Miller in attendance last night were Barley House owner Richard Winfield and Su

  January 9, 2009

• Bush and Booze. Not What You Think?

  First, on this Inauguration Day afternoon, a mention of drink specials in honor not only of our new president, but the former one who will make Dallas his home, oh, any day now. A few days back, Simon McDonald at The Libertine Bar forwarded us a handful of welcome-home signs, one of which appears at top, signaling the 4 p.m. opening-bell for cheap drinks, among them the Obama Slammer, the McCain Parting Shot and the Sarah Palin Designer Martini. Yes, please.And speaking of drinking down a sweari

  January 20, 2009

• Jumping Fish

  A new gig for Marc Haines

  January 4, 2001

• The Libertine's Weekly "Local Yokel Show" Expands To Include Live Bands

  What? Wrong Libertine? Nothing like the announcement of a slow news day to jumpstart the late afternoon news items, I guess. For instance? This fun bit o' news for Simon McDonald, owner of The Libertine, the best damn bar in town...With the bar's weekly Monday night "Local Yokel" event (where DJ Deez spins nothing but local music) rounding the turn on its six-month anniversary, McDonald and Deez have added a new wrinkle to the night's fold: live music, or, as McDonald puts it "intimate acoustic

  April 6, 2009

• Is Expanding the Dallas Smoking Ordinance a Commie Plot?

  November 27, 2008

• Gig Alert: John Pedigo, Michael Cox, Lyndah Gardner and Tim O'Brien Join In On Some Local Yokel Show Fun Tonight

  I swear, one of these weeks, I'm gonna be able to make it out to The Libertine for its weekly Monday night event, The Local Yokel Show, where it's all local music, all the time on the bar's PA.And, actually, tonight seems as good a time as any for me--or, y'know, you--to finally get around to checking it out. Why? Well that's 'cause tonight, the bar, which recently added intimate, acoustic live performances to its Local Yokel show lineup, will be playing host to a lineup owner Simon McDonald ca

  May 18, 2009

• Appetite For Instruction: Fisherman's Stew

  Recipe Demonstrated By Roseanne Dileo of The Libertine BarJesse HugheyRoseanne Dileo has been cooking at The Libertine Bar for about a year, following stints as a server and general manager at the beloved lower Greenville pub. As much as she liked front-of-house money, though, she says she prefers the relative calm of the kitchen (?). Dileo was kind enough to show us how to make one of the restaurant's featured plates. Simon McDonald, a partner in the restaurant and bar, says the Fisherman's Ste

  June 11, 2009

• The Libertine Offers Two Pairs Of Tickets To Tonight's Beer Dinner

  ​We know what you're thinking: "Man, that beer dinner tonight at The Libertine sure sounds great, but I don't have $100 to spare on a couple of seats." And you're right. The dinner, which we mentioned in Hash Over on Monday, features Southern Star's Pine Belt Ale (a Hophead fave) and Bombshell Blonde, and Bear Republic's Hop Rod Rye and Big Bear Stout. Paired to the beers are peanut-crusted shrimp, baked feta cheese with red pepper and salmon roe, buttermilk potato chicken with garlic broccoli

  August 26, 2009

• Hophead: Does The Right Beer Glass Matter?

  Mikal Beth HugheyLibertine Bar owner Simon McDonald serves Leffe, Hoegaarden and Duvel ales in their corresponding glasses.​The importance of serving wine and spirits in the correct style of glass is pretty well established. Order a Cognac at even the most laid-back of bars and it's unlikely that the bartender will pour it into a shot glass. Beer, on the other hand, rarely gets the same respect. Unless you're at a place that specializes in craft beers, you're likely to get your brew--regardles

  September 3, 2009