Scilla, a new coastal Italian spot from Duro Hospitality, is set to open on Friday on the ground floor of the 8111 Douglas office tower in Preston Center's Park Cities. The kitchen leans hard into Calabria's seaside traditions, with seafood, house-made pasta and wood-grilled plates, and the owners are pitching it as an everyday neighborhood hangout for business lunches, afternoon aperitivi and late-night cocktails.
Coastal-Calabrian menu highlights
The menu focuses on small plates, chilled and raw selections, and larger wood-grilled mains. Diners can expect gnocco fritto, lobster arancini, boquerones on toast, hamachi and chutoro crudo, a seasonal seafood tower, paella di mare, plus a roster of house-made pastas and wood-grilled fish and proteins. These details and the opening date were first reported by CultureMap Dallas.
Who’s behind it and where it sits
Scilla is the latest concept from Duro Hospitality, the Dallas restaurant group behind The Charles, Sister, Mister Charles, El Carlos Elegante, Casa Duro, Café Duro and Norman’s Japanese Grill. The restaurant will take up roughly 7,500 square feet on the ground level of 8111 Douglas, a mixed-use office and residential project that Lincoln Property Company helped deliver. Lincoln announced the partnership and the planned retail slot in 2024, positioning Scilla as a key amenity for the new tower; see the company's announcement via Lincoln Property Company and the operator's overview at Duro Hospitality.
Design, hours and the debut plan
Designed by Corbin and Ross See of Sees Design, Scilla's interiors come with upholstered walls, hand-painted murals, and artisan finishes meant to feel bright and lively at lunch, then more intimate and candlelit after dark. "From the beginning, this project was driven by its location," Duro founding partner Chas Martin said in a release, underscoring the group's neighborhood-first approach. The restaurant will launch with dinner service only, running 4:30-10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 4:30-11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, with lunch to follow soon and complimentary valet on offer, as reported by CultureMap Dallas.
What it means for Preston Center
Scilla fills a ground-floor retail slot in the 8111 Douglas development, which has been marketed as a fresh hub of office and residential life in Preston Center and designed to bring neighborhood amenities back to the Park Cities. According to Lincoln's project release, the developer and design partners set up the tower to attract restaurants like Scilla that can serve both daytime office workers and nearby residents. For diners, that should translate to walkable access to a Mediterranean-leaning menu without the usual downtown destination fuss.
