Dallas is getting a Spanish restaurant built around the idea of a countryside home rather than a dining room. Masía, opening at 2530 Fairmount Street sometime this winter, comes from Arrels Hospitality Concepts, the Houston group behind BCN Taste & Tradition, which earned a Michelin star, and MAD, the Madrid-leaning restaurant in River Oaks District.
This will be the group’s first Dallas location, and the name itself explains the intent: a masía is a Catalan farmhouse, historically the center of rural life in Catalonia, where families cooked with whatever the land gave them and set a table wide enough for anyone who showed up.
Founder Ignacio Torras, a Barcelona native who built BCN into one of Houston’s most recognized Spanish rooms, described the goal as something closer to hospitality than performance. The idea is a restaurant that feels refined without losing the warmth of an actual home, the kind of place built for a long lunch rather than a fast turn of the table.
Running the kitchen will be chef Lenin Busquet, whose résumé reads like a tour through Spain’s most decorated dining rooms. He spent four years as head chef at Annua, helping the restaurant hold onto its two Michelin stars, then moved to Ment, where the kitchen earned its first star just six months after he took over. He later joined ABISS in Calpe and was named Promising Chef of the Valencian Community in 2022 before bringing that résumé to Texas, by way of stints in Mexico City and Lima along the way.
The space itself, a 3,500-square-foot build with room for 86 guests inside and another 20 on the patio, was designed by Dallas-based Gensler Architects around natural wood, stone, and a palette calm enough to let the food and Torras’s private art collection do the talking. It’s the same instinct that made BCN’s Picasso-hung dining room a destination in its own right in Houston, now aimed at a Dallas audience that’s had plenty of Spanish tapas but comparatively little of this kind of full commitment to the country’s fine dining tradition.
No opening date beyond “winter” has been set yet, and reservations aren’t open. For now, the address and the pedigree are enough to put this one on the list to watch heading into next year.
