When Hall Park's first office tower went up in the mid-1990s, employees could look out their windows and see cows. Craig Hall had bought the land in 1989, back when the Dallas North Tollway didn't even reach that far north. For nearly thirty years, Hall Park did what office parks do: it filled up with corporate tenants, added buildings, and mostly emptied out after 6 p.m.
The Star, by contrast, never had that slow build. When the Dallas Cowboys, the City of Frisco, and Frisco ISD opened the 91-acre campus in 2016, dining was part of the blueprint from day one. Today it holds more than 20 restaurants inside its District alone. Hall Park, even after three decades, still has one main sit-down restaurant, the Italian spot Palato, plus five others scattered around its plaza.
That gap is closing this fall, but not because Hall Park is trying to become The Star. It's building something The Star was never designed to be: a neighborhood.
The Park That Waited Thirty Years For Its Restaurants
Hall Park is getting its two most significant restaurant additions ever, and both are transplants from Dallas. Headington Companies, the hospitality group behind The Joule and Forty Five Ten, signed a lease in October 2025 to bring Commissary and Tango Room to 3101 Gaylord Parkway, both slated for a fall 2026 opening. Commissary will operate as a cafe, bakery, gelateria, espresso bar, and neighborhood market in one space, serving breakfast tacos and morning buns on weekdays and full brunch on weekends. The Frisco location will actually become the brand's flagship, taking over all of Commissary's bakery and wholesale production. Tango Room, which built its reputation as a twelve-table steakhouse in the Dallas Design District, is bringing a bigger bar and a private dining room north, alongside its signature caviar martini and dishes like lobster corndogs and uni tagliatelle.
Both restaurants sit at the base of The Monarch, Hall Park's luxury apartment tower, next to Kaleidoscope Park. That park just got bigger news of its own. On June 10, 2026, Hall Group broke ground on a $14 million expansion that will add roughly 1.4 acres, a performance lawn, a water feature, and an outdoor video screen for concerts and events, according to Community Impact's coverage of the groundbreaking. The same groundbreaking included The Terraces Hall Park, a new Class A office tower, meaning the restaurants, the park, and the office growth are all landing on the same timeline.
Headington Companies vice president Coner Seargeant, who lives in Frisco himself, called Tango Room a destination restaurant for residents, not just office tenants passing through. Hall Group's own read on the audience is specific: as the Dallas Morning News reported, the restaurants are expected to draw Collin and Denton county residents and office workers, not primarily visitors from out of town.
The Star Never Had to Wait
The Star's newest wave looks different because it's filling in gaps rather than establishing a foundation. The Imperial Room, a 25 to 30 seat cocktail lounge from PILF Restaurant Group, is opening in early September in the space that used to hold Cow Tipping Creamery, the ice cream shop that had been a Star fixture. Musume, the Japanese and sushi concept from Rock Libations Restaurant Group, has now been open a full year on the second floor at 3625 The Star Boulevard, long enough to make good on its claim to the region's largest sake and Japanese whisky selection. Bread Zeppelin opened its eleventh Texas location on Main Street in June, marking the occasion with a ribbon cutting alongside the Frisco Chamber of Commerce that sent a portion of opening weekend proceeds to The Miracle League of Frisco.
Two more are still on the way but won't be ready this year. Chubby Skewers, a Northeastern Chinese barbecue concept where diners cook their own skewers tableside, picked Frisco for its first Texas location, with an opening targeted for 2027. Moxies, the Canadian dining brand already running locations in Southlake and Plano, filed permits for a nearly 13,000 square foot restaurant in the old City Works space, with construction pegged at roughly $800,000 and completion expected in spring 2027, per Community Impact's reporting on the Star's upcoming lineup.
None of this required Frisco to build a new park or break ground on office towers. The Star already had the crowd. It just needed the restaurant count to keep pace with demand.
Same City, Different Occasion
| The Star | Hall Park | |
|---|---|---|
| Opened | 2016 | Mid-1990s |
| Restaurant count | 20+ | 6, rising to 8 by fall 2026 |
| Anchor draw | Dallas Cowboys headquarters, Ford Center | Office campus, The Monarch apartments |
| 2026 additions | Imperial Room (Sept.), Bread Zeppelin (June), Musume (open since Sept. 2025) | Tango Room and Commissary (fall) |
| Best for | Event nights, weekend dinners, out-of-town guests | Weekday lunch, weekend brunch, casual neighborhood dinners |
The pattern that falls out of this isn't that Frisco has more restaurants than it used to. It's that the city now has two distinct answers to the question of where to eat, and they solve different problems. The Star was engineered as an event-day destination from the start, so its restaurant list reads like a night out: Cane Rosso for Neapolitan pizza, Mi Cocina for Tex-Mex, Dee Lincoln Prime for the occasion dinner, Concrete Cowboy for later in the evening. Hall Park spent three decades as a place people worked and then left. Its new restaurants are built for the version of Frisco that just wants a good bakery on the way to the office and a steakhouse close enough to walk to on a Friday without driving to The Star or into Dallas.
What's Actually Open Right Now
If you're deciding where to eat this month rather than planning around a fall opening date, the practical list is shorter than the headlines suggest. Musume has had a full year to settle in and is worth the second-floor walk-up. Bread Zeppelin has been serving lunch on Main Street since early June. The Imperial Room should have its doors open by the time you read this, assuming its early September timeline holds.
Everything else on this list is still a placeholder on a calendar. Tango Room and Commissary are targeting fall 2026 but haven't announced a firm date. Chubby Skewers and Moxies are both looking at 2027. That's a longer runway than most roundups make it sound, and it matters if you're trying to plan an actual dinner rather than just track what's been announced.
Frisco's food and drink scene is also picking up recognition beyond new leases and permits. The city's Flix Brewhouse location took home a gold medal at the 2026 U.S. Open Beer Championship for its Cumbersome Blonde, part of a record 17 medals across the chain's locations, a small sign that the city's dining identity is deepening rather than just expanding in square footage.
Two restaurant rows growing on separate timelines, aimed at separate occasions, is a more interesting story than one more list of openings. It's also a useful thing to know if you live here and haven't been able to explain why The Star feels like an event and Hall Park is starting to feel like a neighborhood. Both are true, and this fall is when the second half of that sentence finally has the restaurants to back it up.
If you're weighing what a home near either of these districts is actually worth, or thinking about what Frisco's growth means for a property you already own here, Social Living Real Estate knows this market from the ground up. Schedule a consultation and let's talk through what you're seeing.
