Suite 240 at 7010 Preston Road now holds 110 seats, a counter of traditional Indian mithai and shelves of packaged snacks. When the doors opened on Oct. 11, Navratri was underway. The kitchen ran a separate menu of fasting-friendly dishes alongside Raj Kachori, Choley Bhature, Pav Bhaji, Pani Puri, Rasmalai and Gulab Jamun, according to the company's announcement as carried by FSR magazine.
Haldiram's has more than 400 stores and restaurants around the world, as Community Impact reported. Until this month, none of its restaurants was in the United States. The company picked Frisco first. Thonglor also chose a Frisco storefront for its flagship. A Frisco original came back from a summer closure. This season, Frisco is where several restaurants begin.
Haldiram's started as a small bhujia shop in Bikaner, Rajasthan, in 1937. It now runs more than 200 restaurants across North India, and its products sell in over 80 countries. Its restaurant expansion went to the United Kingdom first. Frisco opened about four months after the London debut.
Frisco.city reported that the company called the Dallas area the starting point for a wider U.S. restaurant push. It did not say where or when more U.S. locations might follow. In the announcement, Rhea Agarwal, Haldiram's commercial director for the U.K. and Europe, called the Frisco restaurant "an exciting first step."
The 4,400-square-foot space is three things at once. It has a casual full-service dining room for groups and families, a dedicated sweets counter, and a retail area stocked with Haldiram's packaged products. That means you can stop in for a box of Gulab Jamun or a bag of snacks without booking a table. Opening-day hours had not been posted as of the Tuesday before the opening, Frisco.city noted, so check the Haldiram's website or call before you make the drive.
Six days before Haldiram's, Thonglor opened its flagship at 4350 Main St., Ste. 140, Community Impact reported. The menu covers Thai and Isan cooking: fried red snapper, pad kra pao, drunken udon noodles, grilled pork jowl, lamb curry, grilled lobster, and mango with sticky rice to finish. Thonglor also does pickup, delivery and event catering.
A flagship is the location that sets the standard for a restaurant, and Thonglor's is in Frisco.
Also on the Main Street side of town, Mero Mero opened in September at 9179 Dallas Parkway, Ste. 170, at Main Street. It serves modern Tex-Mex.
Starting in Frisco has a harder side, and Red's on Main lived it this summer. The restaurant opened in February in the former Maple Street Biscuit Company space and served smash burgers, wings and paninis. On July 30 it announced a temporary closure while it looked for more funding after a summer of slow business, Community Impact reported.
It reopened Sept. 9, a little more than a month later. The original menu is still there, new items have been added, and there is now a "Cowboy Dave booth." The restaurant's announcement read, "The red light is coming back on."
Chitos Authentic Mexican Restaurant made a different kind of move this season. It reopened on Oct. 4 in a new location at 9145 John Elliot Drive, next to Frisco Fresh Market. Both restaurants already had a following in Frisco and chose to stay and keep cooking here.
Trung Nguyên E-Coffee was founded in 1996 in Buôn Ma Thuột, the city Community Impact calls Vietnam's coffee capital. The chain has more than 800 locations across Vietnam's 63 provinces. Its first Houston location opened in Chinatown in 2025. The Frisco shop at 9244 Prestmont Place made it six U.S. locations when it officially opened on Aug. 22, after a soft opening earlier that month. The menu runs from traditional phin coffee to a sea salt cream phin, an egg cream white coffee and a blueberry matcha latte, served quick-service style.
Utsav Indian Cuisine & Bar followed a regional path. Its Coppell restaurant opened in May, and the Frisco location at 12255 Teel Parkway followed on Aug. 14. It serves north and south Indian dishes, including kebabs, biryani, mandis and curries, and has a full-service bar and lounge.
These two arrived the familiar way. A brand that took London before Dallas, and a Thai restaurant that put its flagship here, arrived another way. Frisco now gets both kinds.
The everyday openings fill in the rest of the season. Most are counters and cafes that work as well for a Tuesday morning as for a weekend.
| Opened | Business | Address | What's on offer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 1 | The Kindoven Dessert Cafe | 2428 Stonebrook Parkway, Unit 265 | Scratch-baked goods and coffee |
| Aug. 9 | La La Land Cafe | 11660 Legacy Drive | Cafe |
| Aug. 15 | La Rue Doughnuts | 4747 4th Army Drive | Doughnuts |
| Sept. 1, soft opening | Stackz Smash Burgers & Cocktails | Shops at Starwood, 6959 Lebanon Road | Burgers and boozy milkshakes |
| Sept. 5, soft opening | BreadHaus | 160 FM 423, Ste. 400 | Scratch-made sourdough and sweets |
BreadHaus planned its grand opening for Sept. 12, a week after the soft opening. The Kindoven opened at the start of August, though Community Impact's profile did not run until October. If you missed it over the summer, you are not alone.
Several more names are in the pipeline. As of this week, none of them has a confirmed opening, so call or check online before you plan an evening around one:
Chubby Skewers is a debut too. Even next year's pipeline includes a brand choosing Frisco as its first stop in the state.
When friends ask where to eat in Frisco, we like to send them somewhere they can't find anywhere else in the country. Right now that list starts at 7010 Preston Road. If you'd like to talk through what's coming to your corner of town, or what these openings mean for the blocks around them, the team at J. Klefeker Group is glad to share what we're following. Book a Consultation and we'll pick up the conversation from there.
