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by | October 12, 2026 · 3:39 pm

Zalat Pizza Opens Its 30th Location Today in Duncanville

Zalat Pizza opens in Duncanville today, Monday, October 12, and it is a milestone. The new shop at 325 S. Cedar Ridge Drive, in the Cedar Park Shopping Center near Wheatland Road, is the 30th Zalat in Texas.

That number still takes some getting used to. Khanh Nguyen, a former attorney, opened his Vietnamese restaurant DaLat on Fitzhugh Avenue in 2012. When the space next door came open, he turned it into a late-night pizza window for the cooks, servers and bartenders who get off work when most kitchens are closed. That was the first Zalat, in 2015. CraveDFW had the very first slice to come out of that oven, and it is hard to believe how far that little shop has come. With Duncanville, there are now 22 Zalats around Dallas-Fort Worth, six in Houston and two in Austin.

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by | August 14, 2026 · 1:54 pm

Zalat Pizza Puts Butter Chicken on a Crust, and It Actually Works

Zalat Pizza has never been shy about mashing up flavors that have no business working together until they do, and the newest one might be the boldest swing yet. Starting August 17, every Zalat Pizza location in Texas will start slinging a Butter Chicken Pizza, a limited-time pie that takes one of the tastiest dishes in Indian cooking and stretches it across a crust.

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by | July 20, 2026 · 4:10 pm

Zalat Pizza Keeps Its Weird, Wonderful Personality Intact at Store 31

Khanh Nguyen started Zalat Pizza in Dallas back in 2015, and eleven years later the company is opening its 31st Texas location, this time in McKinney’s Heritage Village at 1720 N. Central Expressway, Suite 210, just south of Highway 380 on U.S. 75. For a brand that’s grown this far this fast, Zalat has held onto the same personality it launched with, which says something about how deliberately Nguyen has grown it.

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by | May 8, 2026 · 4:31 pm

The Zalat Pizza Empire Started with the Love of Late Night Dining

Khanh Nguyen was eight years old when his family fled Vietnam in 1975. His father was a general in the South Vietnamese army and the governor of a mountain province called DaLat — and when the country fell, a communist assassin was sent to kill them. The family’s escape plan collapsed at the last minute. What saved them was a bowl of pho. The cook at a roadside restaurant outside the city recognized Nguyen’s father, fed the family, hid them, and helped them find another way out. They made it through the Philippines and Guam before landing in Texas. Khanh grew up here, went to UT law school, became a corporate attorney, then a software startup CEO, then looked around at forty-something and decided he wanted to make pizza.

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by | November 9, 2023 · 4:16 pm

Zalat Opens Second Location in Austin

Khanh Nguyen owner of ZaLat Pizza at their new location on Sept. 19, 2019 on W. Hickory Street in Denton, Texas. The restaurant is projected to open mid-October. (Kara Dry/Special Contributor)

Zalat Pizza, the late-night, cult-favorite, Texas-based pizza concept where all frontline employees receive stock options, announced the opening of their 2nd Austin location at The Shops of Arbor Walk.

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by | September 27, 2023 · 2:12 pm

Dallas’ Beloved Zalat Pizza Is Now Taking Reservations for a Potential Stock Sale on StartEngine – We Are So In!

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Crave was there at the start with Dalat when Khanh Nguyen was serving hot Pho bowls and Dragon Shots til 2am. We were there when we saw the first Zalat Pizza street sign go up next door on Fitzhugh with “Open til 4am” on it. We remember telling Khanh that it was a bold move to put 4am on the permanent street sign. His response was that he didn’t want to give himself the option to not stick to it. Dallas has followed Zalat over the past 8 years as their late-night, “luxury pizzas for the masses” concept has exploded from its original Fitzhugh location to now 29 locations across Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin.

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by | October 17, 2022 · 10:59 am

Zalat Pizza to Open First Two Restaurants Within Kroger Marketplace Supermarkets

Zalat Pizza, the Texas-based, award-winning, cult-favorite pizza concept announced the first two locations of a multi-unit development relationship with America’s largest grocery retailer, The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR). Under the agreement, Zalat Pizza will place its popular pickup and on-demand delivery pizza restaurants within Kroger supermarkets. The initial pilot locations will be located in Houston, Texas. The Zalat Pizza to be located at Kroger’s Cypress Towne Lake Marketplace. The second restaurant, to be located at Kroger’s Conroe Marketplace supermarket, is scheduled to open in December 2022. The parties plan to announce the slate of 2023 openings in the next few months.     

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by | June 28, 2022 · 11:28 am

Zalat Pizza to Return to Southside at New Location on Tuesday, July 5

Zalat Pizza, the cult-favorite pizza concept, will make its return to Southside in a new location on the street level retail shopping area of Southside Flats at 1210 Botham Jean Blvd, Suite 1118, Dallas, TX 75215 on Tuesday, July 5.

The Zalat brand is known for pushing the envelope on traditional pizza recipes as well as continuing to be bold and inventive. All pizzas are handmade using scratch ingredients, including their dough for the perfect NYC-style crust and house made sauce with oven-roasted Roma tomatoes and fresh basil. 

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