With so much going on this month you’d think it’d be longer than 28 days. Read on to discover the very best things to do in Dallas this February for restaurants, bars, experiences, and more!
1. Explore The Titanic
The epic, blockbuster exhibition docks in Dallas this February! Opening on Valentine’s Day, Titanic: The Exhibition features meticulous recreations of the ship’s interior including the staircase and dock. Furthermore, Titanic: The Exhibition features an incredibly detailed hundreds of historical artifacts as well as fascinating insights into the ship’s design, voyage, and ultimate sinking. Get your tickets here!
2. Explore Letrik: A Festival of Lights
Add a little more light to your life at Letrik A Festival of Lights. Open through March, Letrik has transformed the Texas Discovery Gardens into a breathtaking display with over 1 million LED lights. The acclaimed festival features over 40 intricate lamp installations creating a wonderful backdrop to acrobatic performers, artisan vendors, and any number of photo-ops.
3. Walk Among the Stars at Astra Lumina
There’s no better place for star-crossed lovers in Dallas than Astra Lumina this season of romance. The enchanting experience features a multitude of luminous installations weaved together with celestial pathways sure to create a walk to remember! Tickets are selling fast!
4. Experience an amazing Candlelight Concert
Kick off February magically with Fever Originals’ wildly popular Candlelight series. Another year of breathtaking spectacles has begun in the Big D and talented musicians will be performing at extraordinary venues all over the city offering an enchanting combination of flickering candles and melodic sounds.
See the full list of candlelight concerts taking place in Dallas here.
5. Dallas Blooms at the Dallas Arboretum
The Southwest’s largest annual floral festival returns to the Dallas Arboretum this February. Running from February 22 to April 13, Dallas Blooms will feature the theme “Outside the Ordinary” and include 350,000 tulips, daffodils, cherry trees, and hyacinths, as well as sculptures from renowned artist Seward Johnson.
6. Jambaloo
Kicking off the first week of February, Jambaloo is a free-for-all week-long festival that features an incredible assortment of touring acts, up-and-comers, and local bands playing across 4 venues in the Dallas area.
7. Lunar New Year at Galleria Dallas
Galleria Dallas has adorned the venue with a sensational display of over 250 Chinese red lanterns suspended over its ice rink in celebration of the Year of the Snake from now until February 17. On February 8, the venue will host a special dragon dance and drum performance.
8. Hit the Links at this Cocktail Mini-Golf Course
Nestled in the renowned Village on the Parkway in Addison, Puttshack Dallas occupies a spacious two-story course covering 28,000 square feet.
Here, guests can indulge in four distinctively crafted, tech-infused mini-golf courses. These courses showcase the brand’s state-of-the-art patented TrackaballTM technology, offering a fiercely competitive yet effortlessly scored experience for players to relish.
Read the full article here!9. Kick back at a movie theater
It’s awards season and so many fantastic movies of all kinds from all around the world are picking up their due recognition. For your next movie date, experience peak cinema at Dallas’ many movie theaters.
For the best movie deals in town, there’s no place better to experience them than at AMC Theatres®.
Whether it’s a rainy afternoon or a special date night, all the best critically-acclaimed creations, comedies, action flicks, and everything in between can be enjoyed at a discount in Dallas, and nationally, with an AMC black ticket.
Grab discounted tickets to a movie showing here.
10. Celebrate Valentine’s Day
‘Tis the season of love. Celebrate your loved one this season with romantic restaurants, spas, chocolate, cupcakes, and more!
11. Take a spin in this bowling alley hidden inside an old movie theater
Bowlski’s Lakewood Theater is a live concert venue, candy counter, pool lounge, arcade, bar, and bowling alley. When it came to renovating the historical venue, Bowlski’s owners salvaged what they could of their predecessor and the hidden bowling alley bar now offers an exhilarating and nostalgic night out.
12. Let the good times roll at this inventive gaming alley
Whether you’re young or an adult, games never get old. And while you can find a bowling alley in any given city in America, you’d be hard-pressed to find pin toss anywhere else in the world (to our knowledge).
Bowl Games in Dallas is a one-of-a-kind gaming bar that offers shuffleboard, foosball, and the aforementioned pin toss – a bowling and football hybrid that leaves no joy to spare.
13-14. Sneak into a stylish speakeasy
There’s something special about speakeasies. The secretive, vicarious forbidden feel of transporting back to the prohibition or entering an establishment only known to the few in-the-know fellow attendees makes imbibing cocktails all the more tantalizing.
Here are a few of our favorite speakeasies in and around Dallas:
- Rare Books Bar is a bookish speakeasy that requires a password via phone booth to enter. Read more about it here.
- Room 520 at the SOVA Hotel is an intimate speakeasy adorned with Japanese-inspired decor selling six unique Kyoto-styled cocktails from the confounds of one secretive hotel room. Read more about it here.
15. Send your senses soaring with a Dining in the Dark experience
Ever wondered what it is like to eat in the dark? Eminent psychologists have been advocating dining in the dark as the ultimate taste experience for many years and now it is about to arrive in Dallas.
Engage your taste buds at a memorable night out as you indulge in a delicious three-course meal at the exclusive ‘Dining in The Dark’ dinner party. After donning your blindfold in the darkened, candlelit room, you’ll soon realize that focusing on taste and smell alone can be a truly enlightening experience—provided you’re not afraid of the dark!
Tickets for this sell out quickly so grab them for the next available Dining in the Dark dinner in March whilst you still can.
16. Frolic in a Field of Tulips
Slated to open at the end of February, Texas Tulips in Pilot Point just north of Dallas provides guests with vast fields of beautiful tulips and the opportunity to personally select vibrant spring flowers.
17. Watch the Wide World of Sports
Watching the game at home is one thing, but if you’re looking to get in on the action and don’t have tickets to the game, be sure to patronize one or more of the best Dallas sports bars!