Truck Yard owner Jason Boso couldn’t buy the original Como Motel sign — he tried — so he had a replica made. The beer garden in Richardson opened Sept. 1, 2026.
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Truck Yard is open in Richardson, offering a retro restaurant and beer garden that can seat more than 600 people on the edge of Central Expressway.
Once inside this tree-lined bar with high fences, the highway feels far off. The place was designed as a trip back to the 1950s and ‘60s. A shabby-chic turfed area sports mismatched lawn chairs and signs telling kids to behave. Tables made out of truck beds are parked along the sides of the patio.
One sitting area is inspired by the Como Motel, the motor lodge that opened in the mid-1950s on the east side of Central Expressway. Owner Jason Boso had a replica made of the diamond-shaped C-O-M-O logo and placed it above mustard-yellow velvet couches and vintage coffee tables. Look up: 41 faux axes hang above the couches to match the 41 times North Texan Candy Montgomery struck her lover’s wife, Betty Gore, with an ax in 1980.
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Why here? According to accounts about the case, Montgomery and her paramour visited the neighboring Como Motel for trysts. Bet you didn’t expect an ax killer narrative tied to the decor at a new suburban bar.
Related: How the Como Motel in Richardson became a local landmark with help from Candy Montgomery
If this feels like the movie set of the Como Motel in Richardson, Jason Boso, owner of Truck Yard, has done his job. This open-sided area at the new Truck Yard in Richardson is situated inside a shipping container.
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Truck Yard’s Richardson location makes a nod to the city’s iconic landmark, the Como Motel.
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Open-air spaces at Truck Yard in Richardson sport lawn chairs with a purposeful shabby-chic look.
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In addition to an air-conditioned area (not pictured), Truck Yard in Richardson also has a breezy barn with fans.
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Jason Boso founded Truck Yard over a decade ago in East Dallas. He also started Twisted Root, a D-FW-born burger joint he has since sold. Here, Boso stands inside a James Bond-themed bathroom.
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Dozens of taps serve beer and cocktails at Richardson’s new Truck Yard.
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Customers at Truck Yard can hear live music from nearly any seat on the patio.
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Truck Yard might be familiar to some Dallas-Fort Worth residents, as it started near Greenville Avenue in East Dallas before expanding to Fort Worth, The Colony, Houston and Oklahoma City. In Richardson, Truck Yard replaces Old 75 Beer Garden, a short-lived hangout that closed in 2024. Its founders cited Texas weather concerns.
Boso seems unbothered by the financial threat of hot or cold weather. An indoor area with garage-door walls offers climate-controlled dining for those who want it. The crowd can grow and shrink, Boso said, from 40 people on a warm weekday to a few thousand on a pleasant Saturday.
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To keep up with demand for beer on busy days, Boso’s team will install a craft brewery on-site making beers for sibling company Second Rodeo.
Truck Yard also serves cocktails on tap, “a necessity,” Boso said, when the bar gets slammed. Options include a hot honey margarita, Purple Drank, coconut key lime pie and House Party Punch.
For over a decade, Truck Yard sold cheesesteaks. Those remain at the new Richardson restaurant, but other items like pizza and a smashburger have been added.
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The food menu is larger than the original in East Dallas, where cheesesteaks were once the only item coming from the kitchen. But don’t go looking for a big, gourmet dinner: Truck Yard in Richardson serves a modest selection of pizzas, wings, nachos, cheesesteaks and a smashburger. All locations, Richardson included, have food trucks on-site — part of the reasoning for Truck Yard’s name.
The bar has a stage to the side for live music. At the original location, Boso used to book Fort Worth musician Leon Bridges for singer-songwriter sets.
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A trip to Truck Yard must include a stop in the restroom. Choose your own adventure: Will you pull on the door for the Saved by the Bell bathroom or the Simpsons one? Boso loves the Jaws restroom featuring a fake caged shark.
Each themed bathroom has its own soundtrack. ABBA and Diana Ross might get you dancing with a spinning disco ball.
Truck Yard’s ‘Jurassic Park’ themed bathroom might be worthy a selfie.
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Groove into this women’s restroom for a moment of disco dancing.
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All Truck Yards feature a sasquatch somewhere, and this one does, too.
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“We like to leave Easter eggs,” Boso said.
Insiders will appreciate the IYKYK moment. Anyone else might just shrug. Sasquatch? Marge Simpson? A bathroom dedicated to Dolly Parton? They don’t seem out of the ordinary in a place this extra.
Truck Yard is at 740 S. Central Expressway, Richardson. It opened Sept. 1, 2026.