Kenny’s East Coast Pizza has closed after about 10 years in\u00a0Plano, near Preston Road and West Park Boulevard.<\/p>\n
The casual restaurant brought a little bit of owner Kenny Bowers’ Boston upbringing to the Dallas area. Kenny’s was a family-friendly place with a menu of meatballs, Italian chopped salad, baked ziti, chicken scallopini and the like. Most customers were there for the hand-spun pizzas, which included a white alfredo\u00a0with pesto, a “straight-up pepperoni” and a meat-lovers called the Hot Mess, stacked with sausage, hamburger, pepperoni, mushroom, onions, jalape\u00f1os\u00a0and mozzarella cheese.<\/p>\n
It isn’t clear why Kenny’s closed, and Bowers wasn’t available for comment. The restaurant had been open almost exactly 10 years, since August 2016.<\/p>\n
Commenters on social media begged for Bowers to bring the chicken wings and gluten-free crust to a new location.<\/p>\n
The company continues to operate four other restaurants: Kenny’s Wood Fired Grill and Kenny’s Italian Kitchen, both in Addison, and Kenny’s Burger Joints in Plano and Frisco.<\/p>\n
Wistful diners, be glad: Some of Kenny’s East Coast Pizza’s appetizers, salads and pastas remain on the menu at Kenny’s Italian Kitchen.<\/p>\n
Kenny’s East Coast Pizza was at 4701 W. Park Blvd., Plano. It closed in mid-July 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenny’s East Coast Pizza has closed after about 10 years in\u00a0Plano, near Preston Road and West Park Boulevard.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,88338,88935,88944,89307],"class_list":["post-374058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-tp-collin-county","tag-tp-italian-food","tag-tp-plano","tag-tp-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374058","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=374058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}