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<\/p>\nThe first White Castle burger in Texas is expected to open in The Colony in summer 2026, a spokeswoman for the fast-food company confirmed to The Dallas Morning News.<\/p>\n
Notorious for its square sliders sold in the Midwest and northeast, White Castle has never expanded to Texas in its 104-year history. It has just a handful of stores west of the Mississippi River, in Arizona, Minnesota, Missouri and Nevada.<\/p>\n
Texas\u2019 first White Castle will be at Grandscape, one of Dallas-Fort Worth\u2019s biggest retail and restaurant developments. A mega-center on State Highway 121 backed in part by billionaire Warren Buffett. The leasing team for Grandscape has been known to travel far and wide, like to Bangalore, India, to entice the owners of Windmills micro-brewery to expand into North Texas. (And they did.)<\/p>\n
\u201cCravers everywhere have been telling us Texas is a crave worthy place to grow,\u201d said Jamie Richardson, White Castle vice president. \u201cThat time is now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Restaurant News<\/p>\n
Related:5 things to know about Grandscape, the biggest restaurant village in North Texas<\/p>\n
White Castle’s menu includes a variety of sliders: beef, fried fish, chicken and more. The fast-food restaurant is known for its cheeseburger with steam-grilled onions. <\/p>\n
Scott Payne Photography<\/p>\n
The company celebrated the expansion into Texas with an announcement at 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 21, 2025, at Grandscape, near the plot of land where the restaurant will be built.<\/p>\n
The restaurant is known for its small-sized cheeseburgers with steam-grilled onions. Since news broke that the company was eyeing Texas, Dallas Morning News readers had plenty to say.<\/p>\n
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White Castle town crier reads the announcement of arrival of the restaurant in Dallas-Fort Worth during an event, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in The Colony. <\/p>\n
Shafkat Anowar \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n
New York native Gregg Mavico, who grew up going to White Castle but has gone without now that he lives in Lantana, south of Denton, said White Castle\u2019s entry into Texas is a long time coming. He and his friends \u201ccouldn\u2019t go out on the town without a stop for some \u2018Belly-Bombs\u2019 at the WC.\u201d Burgers cost 12 cents.<\/p>\n
And remember how we said the sliders are small?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know a guy who downed 36 [burgers] at one sitting,\u201d Mavico said.<\/p>\n
It isn\u2019t clear yet if White Castle executives have further plans for expansion in Dallas-Fort Worth or Texas at large.<\/p>\n
Most chain restaurants that expand into Dallas-Fort Worth, like Portillo\u2019s, In-N-Out Burger, Torchy\u2019s Tacos and Sweetgreen, started with several locations.<\/p>\n
White Castle is expected to open at Grandscape in The Colony in summer 2026.<\/p>\n
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Introduction to White Castle in Texas The first White Castle burger in Texas is expected to open in The Colony in summer 2026, a spokeswoman for the fast-food company confirmed to The Dallas Morning News. Notorious for its square sliders sold in the Midwest and northeast, White Castle has never expanded to Texas in its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dining"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dmn-dallas-news-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com\/resizer\/v2\/OCUYAIZW4NAENFREFIDRKRAOZQ.jpg?auth=225381dd9412aea73d0702c286b93b9c3ada3e77ecf4d5641eb859745c7507fa&quality=80&width=1200&height=630&smart=true","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11761,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758\/revisions\/11761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}