During early evening hours, Café Salsera looks like any other Deep Ellum restaurant, save for a smaller crowd than many of the dining hotspots nearby. But on weekend nights around midnight, the mild-mannered restaurant transforms into a packed nightclub, with patrons filling the dance floor until 2 a.m. On social media, DJs promote their events at the restaurant by advertising bottle service and nightclub-esque dress codes.

This duality doesn’t sit well with everyone in the neighborhood. Deep Ellum residents and workers have complained on social media about large, intoxicated crowds pouring out of Salsera late at night, disrupting traffic and starting fights, and a lack of adequate security to handle the overflow. Reviews of the restaurant on social media give a peek into the restaurant’s second life as a full-blown dance club.