The Wild Detectives Bookstore Opens in Dallas

Shelf Awareness

photo: DallasObserver.com

The Wild Detectives bookstore, coffee shop and bar opened last weekend in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Tex. The Observer reported that there "aren't enough places in Dallas where you can read a book and sip a beer in public. 

At the Wild Detectives, you can order up a Lakewood Lager, pull out your beat-up copy of a Jonathan Lethem novel or T.S. Eliot poems and read in peace. An eclectic playlist softly fills the space, only interrupted by the occasional conversation or the hiss of the bartender steaming milk. 
And when you finish your book and need a new one, the Wild Detectives have tracked down several hundred choices for you."

On Facebook Sunday, co-owners Paco Vique and Javier Garcia del Moral noted: "It's cold enough today that the Mardi Gras parade was cancelled, but there's warmth, literature, and fellowship to be enjoyed at the newly opened Wild Detectives at 314 W. 8th St. We snapped these photos of the bookstore/wine bar yesterday."