{"id":465324,"date":"2026-10-14T01:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465324\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T01:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:48:16","slug":"coming-to-dallas-knox-street-new-tex-mex-restaurant-el-camino-royale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465324\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to Dallas&#8217; Knox Street: new Tex-Mex restaurant El Camino Royale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The restaurant is expected to open in 2027 near the new Knox Hotel in Dallas, at Knox and Travis streets in an area developers are calling \u201cthe paseo.\u201d El Camino Royale will occupy a corner spot that will allow customers to walk off the Katy Trail and onto the Tex-Mex restaurant\u2019s patio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you stand out there and look down the Katy Trail, it can really give you goosebumps,\u201d said Dallas restaurateur Greg Katz. He is opening El Camino Royale with his brother, Nik Katz.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike some of the other upscale restaurants announced in the Knox Street development \u2014 a project so large, its execs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/real-estate\/2023\/12\/05\/work-starts-on-huge-knox-street-high-rise-complex\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">secured over $600 million in financing<\/a> \u2014 El Camino Royale was designed to be casual, Greg said.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant is still in early stages, but Greg expects the menu to include fajitas, tacos, enchiladas, nachos, quesadillas, ceviche and margaritas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to get clever,\u201d Greg said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll give the people what they want, and we\u2019ll do it really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Katzes recently hired Charles Olalia, former executive chef of the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, to be the culinary director for the brothers\u2019 growing restaurant portfolio in North Texas. (In a full-circle moment, Greg worked in the Mansion\u2019s kitchen in the late 1990s and early 2000s, making Southwestern dishes for Dean Fearing, the restaurant\u2019s chef at the time.)<\/p>\n<p>The Katz brothers have not yet opened a Tex-Mex restaurant. But, Greg said, \u201cI feel a connection to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joining El Camino Royale, these restaurants are expected to open in Dallas\u2019 Knox Street development:<\/p>\n<p>The Knox Street development has room for two or three more patio-centric restaurants near El Camino Royale that haven\u2019t been announced yet, confirmed Hendrika Diehl, senior director of marketing and property management for Knox Street.<\/p>\n<p>El Camino Royale will be at 3333 Knox St., Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The restaurant is expected to open in 2027 near the new Knox Hotel in Dallas, at Knox and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[98133,102,104,103,95928,92267,91781,89276,89307],"class_list":["post-465324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-business-real-estate","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-chefs","tag-tp-knox-henderson","tag-tp-mexican-food","tag-tp-restaurant-openings","tag-tp-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465324","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=465324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}