For years, the Westlake dinner question had one honest answer: drive. Southlake for a sit-down, Roanoke for a walk-around night, Grapevine when the in-laws were in town. Fall 2026 is the first stretch where that answer has changed inside the 76262, and the change is lopsided in a way worth understanding if you live here.
The short version: Solana finally caught up to its own architecture this spring, while Entrada is still a construction story with a very specific timing gate. If you have been waiting for both sides of Highway 114 to arrive at once, that is not what is happening.
The baseline you already know
The Town's own dining page has said the quiet part out loud for years, listing Keller, Roanoke, Southlake, and Trophy Club as the surrounding retail options and describing Westlake itself as offering a small variety of restaurants within the Town's limits. Solana, off Highway 114 at the Solana/Kirkwood Boulevard exit, houses a few of the area's best dining options, and the Marriott hotel there includes the Solana Great Room and House of Toro Chophouse and Patio. That page reads differently now than it did a year ago, because the hotel behind it is not the same hotel.
What actually changed at Solana
The Legorreta-designed Marriott completed a multimillion-dollar renovation this spring and reopened as The Ricardo Marriott. The 288-room property, in the heart of Westlake's Solana Plaza and designed by Ricardo Legorreta, completed a multimillion-dollar renovation led by Coury Hospitality and unveiled a new chophouse called House of Toro.
House of Toro is the more useful development for residents. Dark wood paneling, dim lighting, portraits of matadors, and red decor lend the restaurant a warm, Old World sensibility, and Chef de Cuisine Nate Sanders, whose previous stints include Carbone Dallas and Trick Rider in Frisco, oversees the restaurant, while Executive Chef Joe Riojas leads the hotel's overall culinary program. Just beyond the dining room is the Black Pearl Lounge, featuring tableside caviar service, hand-cut beef tartare, premium spirits, curated wines, and seasonal cocktails. The great room reopened as Solana Kitchen + Lounge, and there is a grab-and-go component. Solana Kitchen + Lounge is a bright and open space topped by a dramatic golden oculus, serving as the hotel's great room with three meals daily, and a grab-and-go Café31 serves fresh pastries with Lavazza coffee.
Practically speaking, this means a client dinner or a visiting-parents dinner no longer requires a reservation in Southlake Town Square or Grapevine. The chophouse is three minutes from most Westlake front doors.
The second address worth knowing is Building 7 at The Terraces at Solana. Terra Lounge, tucked at the back of the office complex, used to be a tenants-only amenity. It is now open to the public, with hours running Monday through Thursday from noon to 8 p.m. and Fridays from noon to 5 p.m. Glenstar, the Chicago-based owner of the eight-building complex, opened it up so the surrounding communities of Westlake, Trophy Club, Southlake, and Roanoke could use it. Vice president and general manager Kristi Layton has described the intent as wanting the lounge to become the "cheers" of the neighborhood.
A Thursday night, mapped
The concert series behind Building 4 is the fastest way to explain what has shifted. Show up at 5:30, eat, hear music from 6 to 7, and be home before 8. The Town's own calendar states it plainly: both concerts begin at 6 p.m. at the Terraces at Solana at 1600 Solana Boulevard, right beside Town Hall, and food and drinks are available for purchase beginning at 5:30 p.m.
| Time | Where | What |
|---|---|---|
| 5:30 p.m. | Terraces at Solana lawn, 1600 Solana Blvd | Food, drinks, games |
| 6:00 p.m. | Same lawn | Westlake Together concert series |
| 7:00 p.m. | Terra Lounge, 1500 Solana Blvd Bldg 7 | Pizza, a drink, bocce |
| 8:00 p.m. | Home | Home |
If you have never found the lawn, the signage does not help. Park at 1500 Solana and walk around Building 4 toward the grass.
Entrada, honestly
Entrada is where residents keep asking the same question at dinner parties, and the answer this fall is more interesting than it was in January. The opening of Starbucks has anchored what is now a fully occupied retail corner at the intersection of Davis Boulevard and Highway 114. That is the part you can drive to today.
The rest is a permit-and-road-tie-in story. The parking garage is 95% complete and will be ready to open this summer, the restaurants are ready to open whenever the Town receives the permit applications, and the developer is waiting to open the restaurants, which include Primos, Dahlia, and Parliament, after the service road connection to Highway 114 is complete. Three named restaurants sitting behind a service-road schedule is a very specific gating item, and it explains why residents driving past see finished buildings and no diners.
There is more coming than restaurants. A permit for a four-story mixed-use building was issued at 49 Arta Drive, between CVS and Senderra Title, that will include commercial uses on the ground floor and 10 condo units on the upper floors, and the View office building, located next to Primrose Academy, is nearing completion and should be open by the fall.
Zoom out further and the scope grew this spring rather than shrank. Town Council recently approved a development plan amendment request from Entrada developer Centurion American to allow major changes to the amenity core, including a new retail and events area adjacent to the parking garage currently under construction, a hotel, office space, restaurants, and a residential repository along Highway 114. According to the developer, when combined with the soon-to-be-opened restaurants, reception hall, and chapel, the amenity core of Entrada will begin to take shape in the next year or two.
Two-year windows on developer timelines are what they are. The near-term takeaway for residents is that Entrada in fall 2026 is a Starbucks corner plus a lot of finished shells waiting on a road connection. Solana is the side of 114 that is actually usable this quarter.
Restaurant Week and the fall booking window
If you have not made a Restaurant Week reservation in a few years, this is the year to look again. DFW Restaurant Week is marking 30 years, which the organizers describe as one of the nation's longest-running restaurant week campaigns, and since 1998 Lena Pope has benefitted as the Tarrant County partner, receiving over $3.3 million in donations. House of Toro Chophouse and Patio at 1301 Solana Blvd is on this year's list. The math is the interesting part: a prix fixe at a brand-new chophouse three minutes from home, with the check underwriting a Fort Worth children's nonprofit, is not the standard trade-off during a DFW dining trip.
Where to send out-of-town guests this fall
Assume you have relatives in town for a long weekend and no interest in fighting Southlake traffic. A resident's short list:
- Occasion dinner: House of Toro at The Ricardo Marriott. Ask about a nightcap in the Black Pearl Lounge.
- Quieter meal or a business breakfast: Solana Kitchen + Lounge.
- Grab-and-go before an early flight out of DFW: Café31 for a Lavazza coffee and a pastry.
- A drink and a slice, low-key: Terra Lounge behind Building 7. Bring the kids if the bocce court is free.
- A Thursday concert night: the lawn behind Building 4 at 1600 Solana Boulevard.
- Existing neighborhood staples the Town lists: Mar-Cosina, La Scala, House of Toro Chophouse and Patio, Joe's Pizza, and Solana Kitchen + Lounge remain the working set of restaurants popular in Westlake.
- The Entrada drive-by: the Starbucks corner at Davis and 114 for a coffee, then a slow loop past the chapel, reception hall, and parking garage under construction so guests understand what is coming.
What this means for your fall calendar
The pattern to notice: for the first time, a Westlake resident can plan a full Thursday evening inside the town limits without a highway drive. That is a small thing and a real thing. It also creates a natural rhythm for the fall, with concert nights at Solana anchoring the near-term calendar and Entrada's amenity core moving from "someday" to "watch the service road" as the trigger for the next set of openings.
If you are thinking about how any of this shapes your address, whether you already own here and are watching the build-out or you are considering a villa or townhome inside Entrada as the amenity core lands, that is a conversation worth having with someone who follows this specific submarket week to week. Richard Noon is glad to walk through what the Solana and Entrada changes mean for your street. Let's Connect.
