Austin’s MML Hospitality spent years eyeing Dallas. Now it’s here, and it has a list.
The company is run by Larry McGuire, Tom Moorman and hotelier Liz Lambert. McGuire and Moorman opened their first Austin restaurant, Lamberts, in 2006. Today MML runs more than 25 properties in Austin, including the Michelin-recommended Jeffrey’s, plus hotels in New York and New Orleans and restaurants in Houston, Aspen and California.
McGuire has laid out the Dallas plan in order. Neighborhood Sushi comes first, then June’s All Day, then Clark’s Oyster Bar, then three Swedish Hill bakeries. That’s six restaurants in under 18 months, and he has said this could be the group’s last big expansion push.
Neighborhood Sushi is already open. It moved into the old Tulum space at The Shops of Highland Park, 4216 Oak Lawn Ave., on June 30. It’s the first location outside Austin, where the original opened on South Congress in 2020.
MML calls it an everyday sushi place, and the menu reads that way. There’s a spicy tuna roll, a fluke roll, nigiri, tempura and hand rolls. Dallas also gets a yakitori section Austin doesn’t have, with skewers of Mishima Reserve Wagyu, king trumpet mushrooms and chicken thigh. It serves lunch and dinner daily, with happy hour weekdays from 3 to 5 p.m. First-timers should know the entrance is in back, off the east parking lot.
June’s All Day is next. In Austin it’s a French wine café, and the Dallas version is under construction at Urby, the Design District high-rise on Hi Line Drive. No opening date has been announced.
Clark’s Oyster Bar has been the longest wait. CraveDFW covered the plans in May, and the date has slid again. It’s now expected in spring 2027 at 4155 Buena Vista St., a 1960s office building on stilts next to the Katy Trail at Fitzhugh.
The first Clark’s opened in Austin in 2012. There are now locations in Houston, Aspen, Montecito and Menlo Park, known for the raw bar, crudo, the lobster roll and clam chowder.
Swedish Hill could turn out to be the biggest piece. It’s an Austin bakery with about 50 years of history, once called Sweetish Hill. MML bought it and reworked it into a gourmet market and sandwich shop that bakes its own sourdough and croissants. Austin has four of them.
Dallas will get at least three. The first will be MML’s commissary in the Design District, a central kitchen with a café out front. The second is planned near the Knox Hotel development. The third lease hasn’t been signed yet.
That commissary is the detail worth noticing. A group that builds its own bakery hub here is planning to stay a while.
For now, Neighborhood Sushi is the only one serving. June’s is the next to watch.
