Hudson House opened the doors to its new Southlake location Monday, filling a roughly 5,000-square-foot suite at 1131 E. Southlake Blvd. that sat empty after RA Sushi departed the Park Village shopping center. The East Coast-inspired seafood and cocktail concept brings a raw bar, burgers, sushi and a chilled-to-the-extreme martini to a stretch of Southlake Boulevard that has seen plenty of turnover this year.
The Southlake spot sits next to Gloria's Latin Cuisine inside Park Village, according to Community Impact, which reported the opening timestamped at 1:53 p.m. Monday. The restaurant's menu leans on items like sushi, burgers and raw bar selections, including oysters flown in daily from the East Coast, the outlet's earlier reporting noted. Hudson House's signature offering, the World's Coldest Martini, is built on chilled Grey Goose vodka, per the same report.
A Long-Delayed Debut for Park Village
The Southlake project was first announced back in October 2025 with a summer 2026 target, then rescheduled for September 11 before ultimately landing on Monday's opening date, according to CultureMap Fort Worth. The slippage followed months of extensive interior demolition inside the former RA Sushi space. Southlake Mayor Shawn McCaskill acknowledged in July that the venue had been completely gutted for buildout, as reported by Bray Real Estate Group.
Hudson House wasn't the only high-profile Southlake dining debut to slip past its original timeline this year. The outlet's reporting places it alongside Ascension Coffee in Town Square and the Wonder food hall on West Southlake Boulevard as three major 2026 projects that missed initial mid-year target windows due to construction or permitting delays. Hoodline previously covered the Wonder food hall's Southlake ambitions when it was first announced for a summer opening.
Coastal Tavern Design With a Fountain View
Inside, the Southlake location is designed to evoke a classic New England coastal tavern layered with NYC West Village styling, featuring warm leather booths, a wraparound bar and a sit-down raw bar, according to a first look shared via Facebook by The Grapevine Edit. An outdoor patio overlooks the Park Village fountain, giving diners a view while they eat outside.
Beyond the raw bar, the food and drink program includes the Bleu & Gold martini, Hudson's Avocado Dip with ranch chips, chicken parmesan over tomato pasta, and The Bouquet, a seafood tower loaded with oysters, snow crab claws and tuna tartare, per CultureMap Fort Worth's reporting. The original Hudson House opened in Highland Park in 2017, and the brand now also operates North Texas locations in Addison, Las Colinas and Frisco, according to Community Impact.
Vandelay's Aggressive North Texas Push
Southlake marks Hudson House's 11th Dallas-Fort Worth location and 12th overall, following recent expansions into Uptown Dallas' West Village in February and Frisco in August 2025, per CraveDFW. The brand has also filed plans for future outposts in Highland Village, Texas, and Gilbert, Arizona, the outlet reported. Hudson House is the flagship concept of Vandelay Hospitality Group, founded in 2012 by Dallas entrepreneur Hunter Pond, who launched East Hampton Sandwich Company before pivoting to the sit-down seafood and cocktail model with the original Hudson House, according to the Cross Timbers Gazette.
Vandelay operates several other dining brands across North Texas, including Chicago-inspired tavern DL Mack's, Tex-Mex concept El Molino, steakhouse Drake's Hollywood and private club Maître D, a portfolio Hoodline detailed when the company converted a Preston Hollow sushi spot into El Molino. Vandelay has also expanded DL Mack's into Dallas' West Village, a project covered in Hoodline's earlier reporting on the company's Uptown moves.
Filling a Gap in a Shifting Retail Strip
The Southlake opening lands inside a shopping center already navigating tenant turnover. Park Village, owned by Fifth Corner, lost Modern Market in July while dining anchors like Gloria's Latin Cuisine, Sweetgreen and Malai Kitchen have stayed put, a shift Hoodline reported at the time in its story on the Park Village lunch spot going dark. Whether Hudson House and the center's other restaurants can hold onto lunch and dinner traffic following that exit remains something worth watching as the center's tenant mix continues to evolve.
The push into Tarrant County also fits a broader pattern of upscale Dallas restaurant groups targeting affluent North Texas suburbs. Nearby Keller posted a 2024 U.S. Census median household income of $174,950, more than double the Texas state average, a figure Hoodline cited in its reporting on high-end dining demand in the area. That kind of purchasing power has increasingly drawn polished-casual concepts like Hudson House away from Dallas proper and into suburban shopping centers along corridors like Southlake Boulevard.
