{"id":376873,"date":"2026-07-17T14:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376873\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:37:32","slug":"mml-hospitality-has-opened-neighborhood-sushi-in-dallas-with-more-concepts-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376873\/","title":{"rendered":"MML Hospitality has opened Neighborhood Sushi in Dallas, with more concepts on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin, Texas-based MML Hospitality has grown rapidly in recent years, expanding its restaurant empire into Houston, Aspen, and California.<\/p>\n

This year, it\u2019s entering Dallas in a big way. Neighborhood Sushi opened on June 30 at the Shops at Highland Park, and will be followed by Clark’s Oyster Bar, three Swedish Hill bakeries, and the promise of additional concepts.<\/p>\n

\u201cDallas felt like the natural next step for MML,\u201d said managing partner Larry McGuire, noting that it\u2019s a city they\u2019ve wanted to be a part of for a long time. \u201cWe\u2019ve built something special in Austin over the years, and the response has given us the confidence to thoughtfully grow within Texas. Dallas is one of the state\u2019s most dynamic dining destinations, and Oak Lawn felt like the right place to introduce what we do, with Neighborhood Sushi leading the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The interior is warm and minimalist, with a Japanese-inspired aesthetic.<\/p>\n

The Dallas location follows the Austin original\u2019s aesthetic, with warm, minimalist interiors and subtle Japanese-inspired design elements. It\u2019s nice enough for a special dinner out, but casual enough to visit for weekday happy hour, when select dishes are half off and beer and sake combos are just $10.<\/p>\n

Related:The James Beard Awards ceremony could be leaving Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dallas menu also mirrors Austin\u2019s, with lots of nigiri and sashimi alongside tempura (shrimp, calamari, vegetables), maki rolls and hand rolls, and a grilled fish collar. One notable difference is a yakitori program that\u2019s currently exclusive to the Dallas location, with wagyu beef, chicken thighs, grilled king trumpet mushrooms, and asparagus.<\/p>\n

Lunch service adds bento boxes, chirashi bowls, and combo specials, like two hand rolls served with iced tea and a choice or soup or salad.<\/p>\n

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The menu features nigiri, hand rolls, grilled fish, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were working on the Dallas menu, we wanted to add something that felt playful, and yakitori came out of that,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cIt\u2019s simple cooking, really just about good ingredients and timing, and it fits naturally with what we\u2019re already doing on the sushi side.<\/p>\n

McGuire said that yakitori will also be rolled out in Austin soon, and that the team is excited to see how it plays out in both cities.<\/p>\n

Neighborhood Sushi first opened in Austin in 2020. Later this year it will leave its South Congress Avenue home for a bigger space on South First Street. The group has more plans in the works.<\/p>\n

In Dallas, \u201cNeighborhood Sushi is just the beginning,\u201d said McGuire. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to bringing more of what we love here over the next year or so, from Clark\u2019s on the Katy Trail to Swedish Hill and a few other ideas we\u2019re excited about. We like building places that become part of people’s everyday lives, and that\u2019s what we’re hoping to do here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related:Vagabond, a self-pour wine bar and restaurant from London, is opening in Nashville early next year<\/a><\/p>\n

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Yakitori is a new offering for the restaurant, launching first in Dallas and rolling out soon in Austin.<\/p>\n

Other projects include a major renovation of the Mountain Chalet in Aspen, Colorado, a property that MML took over a few years ago. And in New York, they\u2019re continuing to build on Nine Orchard, a Lower East Side hotel they took over earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Back in Austin, Sixth&Blanco is an ambitious mixed-use development that\u2019s underway. When it opens, it will be home to a hotel, office space, shops, and restaurants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings tend to evolve quickly for us,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cThere\u2019s always something in motion, and it changes as the right opportunities come along.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin, Texas-based MML Hospitality has grown rapidly in recent years, expanding its restaurant empire into Houston, Aspen, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-376873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376873","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=376873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}