A permit filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation shows plans for a full-service restaurant at 4829 McKinney Ave. in North Dallas, and the project appears to be for Steak 48, a steakhouse chain. The filing lists an estimated construction cost of $4,072,458 and a planned size of 16,200 square feet, figures that would make it the largest Steak 48 in Texas if it opens as described.
A Filing, Not Yet a Confirmation
As reported by Chron, Steak 48 has not officially announced a new Dallas steakhouse, and the paperwork filed with the state is the clearest public signal so far that the brand is headed to the Dallas-Fort Worth market, which already counts roughly 100 steakhouses among its restaurant scene. Per the filing, construction is planned to begin in January 2027 and wrap by December 2027, though Chron notes that date is not necessarily the restaurant's opening date or opening window. The outlet says it reached out to Prime Steak Concepts, the Arizona-based hospitality group behind Steak 48, for more information.
Steak 48 currently operates six locations nationwide, with existing restaurants in Beverly Hills and Del Mar, California; Chicago; Charlotte; Houston; and Philadelphia, according to Steak 48. A Dallas location would become the brand's second Texas restaurant and, per the square footage listed in the state filing, its largest in Texas.
How It Stacks Up Against Houston
The existing Texas location, at 4444 Westheimer Rd. in Houston's River Oaks neighborhood, opened in June 2016 and spans 13,700 square feet across two levels. That restaurant features ground-floor dining suites that look directly into the kitchen, reservation-only bar seats, upstairs dining rooms, and a behind-the-scenes butchering station on the second floor. Former Houston Chronicle restaurant critic Alison Cook gave the Houston location zero stars in her 2016 review, describing the rib-eye as a "$54 investment."
A Family Steakhouse Legacy Built After Mastro's
Prime Steak Concepts was founded by brothers Michael and Jeffrey Mastro, who built the original Mastro's Steakhouse and Mastro's Ocean Club chain, according to Restaurant Business. The Mastro restaurants were sold in 2007, according to the National Bank of Arizona. After sitting out a non-compete period, the Mastro family launched Dominick's Steakhouse in Scottsdale in 2011 and Steak 44 in Phoenix in 2014 before creating the Steak 48 concept, according to the National Bank of Arizona. The same account notes the Steak 48 name was chosen as a direct tribute to Arizona becoming the 48th state admitted to the union.
In May 2021, Steak 48 drew national attention after instituting a strict dress code and a mandatory $100 per-person food and beverage minimum at its Philadelphia and Chicago locations, a policy that restaurant management said was needed to support staff and operations, per CBS News.
Redeveloping a 71-Year Auto-Body Landmark
The McKinney Avenue parcel targeted for the project has its own local history. The address was previously home to Hance's Uptown Collision Center, an auto body repair shop that had served the area since 1955. In 2020, the company opened an additional location in Plano that would handle overflow from McKinney Avenue, according to a PR Newswire release. The site is on McKinney Avenue in Dallas.
Whether the Dallas restaurant will carry over the strict dress code and spending minimums tied to the brand's Philadelphia and Chicago locations remains unknown, as does how Steak 48 plans to differentiate its menu in a Dallas-Fort Worth market already saturated with premium beef offerings. For now, the only confirmation of the project is the filing itself, with Prime Steak Concepts yet to comment publicly.
