{"id":28277,"date":"2025-10-30T20:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/28277\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:12:06","slug":"a-family-friendly-restaurant-east-of-75-assembly-icehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/28277\/","title":{"rendered":"A family-friendly restaurant east of 75, Assembly Icehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assembly Icehouse is now open in East Plano.<\/p>\n

The nearly 5,000-square-foot venue near Spring Creek Parkway and Central Expressway was designed to feel like an \u201cindoor-outdoor family room,\u201d said Jacob Cox, CEO and co-founder of parent company Blender Brands.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving in the area with four children, finding restaurants where parents and children can all hang out are hard to find,\u201d he said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow, my wife and I can sit on the patio watching a game and have a good bite and within a close distance we can watch our kids play.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Assembly Icehouse is attached to Assembly Park, a development from Triten Real Estate Partners that replaces the former Plano Market Square Mall. <\/p>\n

Remember it? This east-of-75 mall was built in the early 1980<\/a>s, according to a Dallas Morning News story explaining what was to come of the \u201cold, tired\u201d mall. (As a kid, I tap-danced inside this very mall every December for Christmas performances.) Plano Market Square Mall was eventually demolished, and a sped-up demolition video of it<\/a> is oddly captivating.<\/p>\n

\"Assembly<\/p>\n

Assembly Icehouse is part of a larger development in place of Plano Market Square Mall.<\/p>\n

Triten Real Estate<\/p>\n

What\u2019s in its place, Assembly Park, is a mixed-use space with trails, restaurants, retail, office space and even apartments. Also on this site is the new Cliff Coffee, which opened within the past few weeks, and a coming-soon place called Tacoro Tacos.<\/p>\n

Assembly Icehouse wants to be a place for the whole family, where 20 TVs will show a variety of games while kids can play outside on the turf. Assembly Icehouse will also have live music.<\/p>\n

The menu was made with both kids and adults in mind by chef Ricky Rodriguez. Items include hot chicken honey sliders, a double-double smashburger, chicken and waffles, and a cheesesteak.<\/p>\n

Assembly Icehouse is at 6185 Assembly Park Blvd C (near Avenue K), Plano. It opened Oct. 30, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assembly Icehouse is now open in East Plano. The nearly 5,000-square-foot venue near Spring Creek Parkway and Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1805,960,324,5447,160,162,161,1623,1622,354,6568],"class_list":["post-28277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-burgers","tag-collin-county","tag-dallas-fortworth","tag-kid-friendly","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-restaurant-news","tag-restaurant-openings","tag-restaurants","tag-take-the-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}