Two Dallas Restaurants Expand to Frisco’s Hall Park
Two Dallas restaurants, a steakhouse called Tango Room and a bakery called Commissary, are expanding to Frisco’s Hall Park in 2026.
The partnership comes from two Texas billionaires: entrepreneur, philanthropist and winery owner Craig Hall and oilman, film producer and hotelier Tim Headington. It would seem that the two — each real estate investors with a stake in Dallas-Fort Worth growth — would have shared notes for years.
“They’re probably the two most like-minded developers in Dallas,” said Jeny Bania, chief marketing officer for Headington Companies.
And yet, the two didn’t know one another until their teams brought them together.
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They still haven’t met in person.
Hall Park in Frisco is just south of The Star, which is the headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys. From this vantage point, you can see the blue Ford Center, the Cowboys’ training facility.
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The Partnership
Hall was growing his $7 billion development along the Dallas North Tollway in Frisco, on land he’s owned since 1989. His team wanted both a casual cafe and a high-end restaurant to add to Hall Park’s current phase, which includes 16 buildings and more than 2.5 million square feet of office space. Hall Park has one main restaurant right now, Italian spot Palato, plus five others in the plaza. There’s room for “a few” others, said Allison Carp, communications director for Hall Group.
Bania’s team pitched Commissary and Tango Room, two Headington restaurants in downtown Dallas and the Design District, respectively, that could serve people in Hall Park’s luxury apartments and offices in Frisco.
It was one of the few times Headington considered a move north. For more than 20 years, Headington has been a champion of downtown Dallas, having developed the Joule Hotel and a handful of restaurants around it. Hall, meanwhile, had purchased 5 acres in 1995 in downtown Dallas, in what we now call the Dallas Arts District.
Headington envisioned Tango Room as “a jewel box in the Design District” that wouldn’t be duplicated.
“But the response surpassed anything we anticipated,” Headington said in an email to The Dallas Morning News. “I’ve had several longtime dining clients ask if they could invest in additional locations, which is usually a sign that you’ve struck a chord. That enthusiasm made us take a closer look at what Tango Room could become beyond our original thinking.”
In the building on the left, Commissary will be in the corner, with Tango Room next to it. Both are expanding from Dallas to Frisco’s Hall Park in 2026.
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The Location
He noted the “tremendous growth” in Frisco, which Hall had been bullish on for decades. The 175-acre property where Tango Room and Commissary will expand to was bought by Hall so long ago, it was once too far north for the Tollway to run through it.
“I believed in Frisco long before the growth reached there,” Hall said in an email to The News. “Even when it was just farmland with cows, the potential seemed good.” He credits George Purefoy, Frisco’s first city manager, and the mayors after that, for the growth north.
“Watching Frisco grow and succeed has been exciting and rewarding, and we’ve been lucky to be part of it,” Hall said.
Tango Room and Commissary will be on the ground level at Hall Park’s apartment building, the Monarch, with views of a 6-acre park and Hall Park Hotel.
