On January 23, 2026, Slice House by Tony Gemignani opened its doors at 5995 Preston Road exactly when it had promised months earlier. A few miles away, Muchacho Tex-Mex was supposed to be open by spring. It wasn't, and now won't be until late summer or early fall, because the tenant it's replacing didn't vacate the space on schedule. Same city, same general timeframe, two very different outcomes.
That gap matters more to someone planning where to eat this fall than another list of restaurant names. Frisco has added a genuine wave of new openings over the past year, and the names behind them have real Dallas pedigree. But if you actually live here, the useful question isn't which restaurants are coming. It's which dates you can trust and which ones keep moving.
The single-address openings have kept their word, mostly
Slice House is the cleanest example. The fast-casual pizza concept from thirteen-time World Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani had targeted a January 2026 opening since a December news release, and it delivered, opening January 23 with an exclusive Frisco slice called The Texan, a brisket pizza made with meat from a local butcher.
Portillo's took a bit longer than advertised. The Chicago chain had been targeting a January 2026 completion for its location on the northwest corner of Gordon Heights Lane and FM 423, near Freddy's Frozen Custard and Black Rifle Coffee. It actually opened April 21, roughly three months past that original window, with a ribbon-cutting that included a check presented to the Frisco Education Foundation.
Hudson House is the oldest data point in this group and the one worth remembering when new openings get billed as evidence that Frisco has arrived. The East Coast-inspired concept opened at 3475 Preston Road on August 6, 2025, taking over a former Twin Peaks. It marked the first true suburban outpost for a restaurant that had previously stuck to Highland Park, Lakewood, and inner-loop addresses like Addison and Las Colinas. A year later, it's simply part of the neighborhood, not a coming attraction.
The chef-driven concepts are moving at a different speed
Muchacho's delay has a specific, traceable cause. Chef Omar Flores and Big Dill Hospitality are taking over 8600 Gaylord Parkway, a space currently occupied by Gloria's Latin Cuisine, which is relocating to a new building at Preston Road and SH 121. Construction moved slower than planned because Gloria's stayed in the space longer than expected, pushing what was originally a spring 2026 opening into late summer or early fall. Flores hasn't slowed down elsewhere. He opened Casa Brasa in Dallas's Preston Center in October 2025 and has Maroma in the Design District in the pipeline. The Frisco delay is about one building, not one chef's bandwidth.
HALL Park's additions are still tracking toward their original fall 2026 window. Headington Companies, the group behind The Joule hotel and Forty Five Ten, is bringing Commissary and Tango Room to 3101 Gaylord Parkway, marking the company's first expansion outside Dallas proper. Tango Room takes the ground floor of The Monarch, HALL Park's luxury apartment tower, next to the 5.7-acre Kaleidoscope Park, with a menu from executive chef David Gomez running from seared foie gras to ribeye au poivre. Commissary's Frisco location will also serve as the brand's flagship, housing all of its bakery and wholesale production. Michael Tregoning, president of Headington Companies, said the group had been "actively searching for high-impact locations to expand the reach of our restaurant portfolio" before landing here.
Fields West's timeline reset changes what to expect this year
This is the one worth correcting if you've been following along for a while. Fields West, the $800 million mixed-use district going up along the Dallas North Tollway, was described in earlier coverage as targeting a mid-2026 opening. That's no longer the plan. As of late July 2026, the development sits at 75 percent pre-leased, and the developer's own updates now describe a phased opening starting in mid-2027 and continuing into 2028. Green Point Seafood & Oyster Bar and Claremont Bar & Grill, two Dallas concepts from the Katz brothers, are now targeting late 2027 to early 2028 for their Fields West debuts. Bloomie's, Bloomingdale's smaller-format concept making its first Texas appearance, is still committed to the project, along with Mastro's Steakhouse and a second SusieCakes bakery. None of it is arriving this year.
| Opening | Original target | Where it actually stands |
|---|---|---|
| Slice House | January 2026 | Opened January 23, 2026, on schedule |
| Portillo's | January 2026 | Opened April 21, 2026, about three months later |
| Muchacho Tex-Mex | Spring 2026 | Now targeting late summer or early fall 2026 |
| Fields West (Bloomie's, Green Point, Claremont, Mastro's) | Mid-2026 | Phased opening now expected mid-2027 into 2028 |
Where that leaves your calendar this year
The near-term action is concentrated in three places: The Star, HALL Park, and the Preston Road and FM-423 corridor. The Star's second wave has been quieter than its Cowboys-adjacent debut but arguably deeper, with Musume, the Dallas-based Japanese concept with what its operator describes as the region's largest sake and Japanese whisky selection, open at 3625 The Star Boulevard since September 2025. The Imperial Room, from PILF Restaurant Group, the team already running Cow Tipping Creamery at The Star, is set to open at 3685 The Star Boulevard in early September, adding a cocktail lounge to a corner of Frisco that's already proven it can support a second concept from the same operator.
Community ties are showing up alongside the national names. Bread Zeppelin opened its eleventh Texas location in Frisco on June 5, 2026, with a ribbon-cutting alongside the Frisco Chamber of Commerce and a portion of opening-weekend proceeds going to the Miracle League of Frisco. And Flix Brewhouse Frisco earned a gold medal at the 2026 U.S. Open Beer Championship for its Cumbersome Blonde, helping the chain notch a record 17 medals across all its locations, each brewery judged independently.
Fields West will eventually be the biggest story on this list, and Universal Kids Resort's July 1, 2026 opening at Panther Creek Parkway and the Dallas North Tollway, with its seven themed lands and 300-room hotel, is exactly the kind of daytime traffic that makes a project like Fields West worth the wait. But that wait is now measured in years, not months. For anyone deciding where to actually go this fall, The Star and HALL Park are the safer bets, and the FM-423 corridor has already proven it delivers roughly on schedule.
If you're watching this corner of Frisco for a different reason, curious what this kind of investment does to home values near HALL Park or The Star, that's a conversation The Deann Abbott Group has regularly with neighbors in the area. Get Your Complimentary Home Valuation whenever you're ready to see how these changes are showing up on your own street.
