The first time we went to Netflix House Dallas, we were there for the Squid Game experience. Luke won that round, which meant the second trip had a very clear purpose: rematch.
We went back to Galleria Dallas, ran through Squid Game: Survive the Trials again, and this time I finally got the win. I’ll get into that whole experience in another post, because the thing that surprised me after the games was upstairs.
Netflix has a full restaurant inside the mall.
Not a snack counter. Not a sad themed concession stand. Netflix Bites is a real sit-down restaurant inside Netflix House Dallas, with a menu built around shows and movies like Stranger Things, KPop Demon Hunters, WWE, Virgin River, Bridgerton, Wednesday, Squid Game and more.
I expected the whole thing to be mostly novelty.
The food was better than that.
Eating Through Netflix Shows at Galleria Dallas
Netflix Bites is part of Netflix House Dallas, the permanent fan destination inside Galleria Dallas at 13550 N Dallas Parkway. The House itself is free to enter, though some experiences, like Squid Game: Survive the Trials, are ticketed.
That matters because you do not have to buy a ticket to eat at Netflix Bites. You can walk in, make a reservation, or order certain items to go, depending on availability.
The Dallas restaurant also fits into a bigger Netflix food experiment. Netflix Bites started as a limited-time Los Angeles restaurant in 2023, then expanded with a Las Vegas version at MGM Grand. Dallas feels different because it is attached to Netflix House, which is built to keep changing over time instead of disappearing after a short run.
The menu at the Dallas location leans into the screen-to-table idea. The dishes are themed, but they are not so weird that only the biggest fan in the group can order them. That ended up being the smartest part.
A person who has never watched Virgin River can still understand grilled cheese and tomato soup.
A person who does not care about wrestling can still eat a smash burger.
The reference adds the fun. The food still has to work.
What We Ordered at Netflix Bites Dallas
The easiest item for me to recognize was the Totally Radical Pepperoni, a $19 pepperoni-and-cheese pizza tied to Surfer Boy Pizza from Stranger Things.
If you watched Season 4, Surfer Boy Pizza is the fictional pizza place where Argyle works, so seeing it turn into an actual menu item is exactly the kind of goofy detail a place like this should be doing. The menu even jokes about “Demogorgon-sized appetites,” because of course it does.
The important part: the pizza was actually good.
That was the theme of the meal. Netflix could have slapped a familiar name on average mall food and probably gotten away with it for a while. They did more than that.
We also ordered the HUNTR/X Ramyeon Noodle, tied to KPop Demon Hunters. The bowl was $16 before additions and came with a cornbread-based ramyeon broth, sesame, gochujang, kimchi, cucumber, mushrooms, scallions and a marinated soft-boiled egg. You could add shrimp or crispy pork belly.
That one could have easily felt like a branding exercise. It didn’t. It felt like an actual dish someone had thought through.
KPop Demon Hunters is a big part of the Netflix House Dallas push, too, with a dedicated immersive experience scheduled for the Dallas location. So the menu tie-in makes sense, but again, the bowl did not feel like somebody just printed a logo next to generic ramen.
Then there was the grilled cheese mystery.
I could not remember which show the grilled cheese and tomato soup came from. I kept thinking it had “Virginia” in the name.
Close enough. It was Virgin River.
The menu calls it Preacher’s Classic Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup, priced at $15, and connects it to Jack’s Bar from the show. That may be one of the better ideas on the menu. Not every themed dish needs dry ice, flames, props or a lecture. Sometimes the move is just understanding the reference and making good comfort food.
They did.
We also tried the WWE Smashed Burger, a $19 double-patty smash burger with pickles and American cheese on a brioche bun, served with fries. The menu dresses it up in wrestling language, naturally, but under the joke it is a straightforward cheeseburger and fries.
That is not a complaint.
The drink that got me was the Saja Boys Soda Pop, which I had been calling the “Soju Boys” drink until I looked closer. Saja Boys, not soju. Different situation.
It is a nonalcoholic banana dirty soda topped with Nilla-wafer whipped cream. Ridiculous? Yes. Completely appropriate for a restaurant inside Netflix House? Also yes.
Netflix Bites also has a full bar, with cocktails themed around different shows, including Squid Game, Wednesday, Love Is Blind and others. The whole menu works best when you treat it like part meal, part scavenger hunt.
The Room Is Part of the Point
The restaurant itself does not feel like a normal mall restaurant with a Netflix logo taped over it.
There are bright neon signs, show references and little visual nods tucked around the room. You end up looking from the walls to the menu and back again, trying to figure out what comes from which series.
That is really the larger trick of Netflix House. It takes things you normally watch from your couch and turns them into something you can walk through, eat, play and shop.
There is a Netflix Shop in the venue too, with apparel, collectibles and themed merchandise. So even if you are not doing one of the paid experiences, you can still stop in, wander around, eat upstairs and browse the gift shop.
For a mall stop, that is a pretty strange sentence. Dallas has a Netflix restaurant and gift shop inside Galleria Dallas. But there it is.
I like the concept more than I expected to.
Restaurants tied to movies and TV usually feel temporary by nature. They show up for a promotion, take a lot of photos, then vanish. Netflix House feels like the next version of that idea: give people a permanent place, then keep rotating what is inside.
That already worked on us.
We came the first time for Squid Game, skipped the restaurant completely, then came back for the rematch and found a whole other reason to hang around.
The Squid Game experience gets its own post. So does the rest of Netflix House.
But Netflix Bites deserves a separate mention because the gimmick is not the only thing carrying it. Eating Surfer Boy Pizza, KPop Demon Hunters ramyeon, a Virgin River grilled cheese and a Saja Boys dirty soda in the same meal is objectively silly.
But the food held up.
If you are heading to Netflix House Dallas, do not automatically leave after the experience is over.
Go upstairs hungry.
