Mexican Bar Company, a restaurant that has operated at The Shops at Willow Bend in Plano since 2018, is building a second location in Allen, owner Brian Dunne told CultureMap Dallas this week.
The new restaurant will be at 800 Shelby Drive in Sloan Corners, the Billingsley Company's mixed-use development at State Highway 121 and U.S. 75. Construction is underway, and Dunne said the goal is to open by December.
A different feel
Dunne said the Allen menu will look much like Plano's, with nightly chef's specials added, but the restaurant will lean toward families. Plans he described include a play area off the main dining room, a 1,700-square-foot patio with a retractable roof and roll-down sides overlooking a 2-acre park, and twice the private dining space of the Plano location.
One of those rooms, a 220-square-foot space Dunne calls the Miami Cabana, seats 12 and has bi-fold doors that open onto a pond.
According to Dunne, the move came at the invitation of Lucy Billingsley, a partner in the Billingsley Company and a regular at the Plano restaurant. "It's been a long time in the works," he told CultureMap. Dunne said he lives about seven minutes from the site.
