In 2026, five food concepts based in Houston, Dallas and Austin have either opened or announced their first San Antonio location on one stretch of Broadway in Alamo Heights. Three of them are moving into buildings with a long prior life: the old Jim's, the old La Madeleine and the former Nix Health sleep clinic. Over the same months, Sorrento Ristorante & Pizzeria announced it would leave its Broadway home after 25 years. Its last day at 5146 Broadway is Saturday, Oct. 17.
Taken together, Broadway between roughly 4100 and 5900 has become a test kitchen for Texas restaurant groups. They are trying San Antonio for the first time, and they are starting here.
Five Addresses, Three Home Cities
Here is the corridor as of Oct. 4, 2026, ordered by street number.
| Address | Concept | Home base | Previous use | Status as of Oct. 4, 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4108 Broadway | Adair Kitchen | Houston, Adair Concepts | Jim's Restaurant | Open since March 2, 2026 |
| 4820 Broadway | Los Tios | Houston, Adair Concepts | La Madeleine | Slated for "early fall" in a Sept. 10 report, no specific date given |
| 5307 Broadway | Hudson House | Dallas, Vandelay Hospitality Group | Nix Health sleep clinic | $1.7 million buildout targeted for April 2027 in a state filing |
| 5615 Broadway | Tiny's Milk & Cookies | Houston | Next door to Hanley Wood Fine Gifts | Planned "by the fall," not yet listed on the company's website |
| 5922 Broadway | JuiceLand | Austin | Not reported | Open since May 2026 |
Dirty Dough, a cookie shop, is also planned for an 886-square-foot space at 5216 Broadway. A state project record showed construction finishing by July 1, 2026, but the April report on the shop said no grand-opening date had been announced at that point.
Houston Got Here First, and It Took the Long Way
Adair Concepts shows the pattern most clearly. The Houston group entered San Antonio in March 2026 with Adair Kitchen, an all-day diner in the former Jim's Restaurant at 4108 Broadway. Its Tex-Mex concept, Los Tios, is next, in the former La Madeleine at 4820 Broadway.
Both projects were originally expected to open in early 2025. Adair Kitchen arrived about a year late. In a Sept. 10 report, Los Tios was aiming for "early fall," and that report did not give a specific day.
Los Tios has deep roots in its home city. It was founded in Houston in 1970. Adair Concepts has run it since 2000 and grown it to six Houston-area locations plus one in Fredericksburg. The Broadway location will be its first in San Antonio.
The Express-News also reported a personal reason for the choice of Broadway: Alice Adair, the wife of co-owner Nick Adair, grew up in Alamo Heights. That makes this out-of-town group's entry less of a cold start than the "Houston-based" label suggests. The group is putting both of its first San Antonio restaurants within about seven blocks of each other, on a street one of its owners' families already knows.
Tiny's Milk & Cookies, also from Houston, is planned for 5615 Broadway, next to Hanley Wood Fine Gifts, with a walk-up bakery and coffee window. In February the Express-News reported it would open "by the fall." As of Oct. 4 the company's own locations page lists Houston and Austin addresses and nothing in San Antonio yet.
Austin's entry is already open. JuiceLand opened its first San Antonio shop at 5922 Broadway in May, selling smoothies, juices, bowls and lattes.
The Dallas Bet at the Old Sleep Clinic
The largest single investment on this list is the one that will take the longest. According to a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing reported Sept. 19, Dallas-based Vandelay Hospitality Group plans a $1.7 million renovation of a 6,510-square-foot space at 5307 Broadway for Hudson House, to be finished by April 2027. That date is a construction estimate, and state filings are preliminary and can change.
Hudson House began in Highland Park nearly 10 years ago and now has 11 locations across Dallas, Houston, Addison, Fort Worth, Irving, Frisco and Southlake. The menu leans toward seafood: East Coast oysters, sushi rolls, shrimp cocktail and a lobster roll, plus a cheeseburger and chicken parm. The bar is known for what it calls the "World's Coldest Martini," Grey Goose vodka on tap chilled to 10 degrees.
The building it is moving into is part of a bigger project. Ridgemont Properties, a local real estate firm, is turning the former Nix Health sleep clinic into a retail and office hub. A February report on that project also described a second restaurant planned there, an unnamed New Orleans-style chophouse.
More is coming further north on Broadway. Fulcrum Development's planned 14,000-square-foot project at 6333 Broadway sets aside 3,000 square feet for a restaurant, 4,000 for retail and 7,000 for offices. As of an August report, construction was planned for September, tenants were expected about a year later, and only a medical office group had signed a lease.
That means new restaurant space on this corridor is scheduled well into 2027, and most of it is still waiting for tenants.
Who Is Leaving, and Where They Are Headed
The newcomers are filling Broadway at the same time some familiar names are leaving it.
Sorrento opened in 2001. In April, Express-News dining critic Mike Sutter named it one of the Top 10 restaurants in Alamo Heights, citing its red-sauce Italian-American staples, its chicken Marsala, piccata and parmigiana, and its New York-style pizzas. The restaurant is moving to 2311 NW Military and has promised the menu is coming with it.
Its official moving page lists Oct. 17 as the final day on Broadway and says the grand-opening date at the new address is "to be announced soon." In the restaurant's Facebook farewell, it told its "Alamo Heights family" that "this community gave Sorrento a home." Some longtime regulars who commented on the news noted that the new address is closer to Shavano Park, which already has its own small but growing dining scene. No public report has said what will go into 5146 Broadway once Sorrento leaves.
Two other changes this spring showed how quickly the street is shifting. Grandma's Greek Taste at 5130 Broadway was locked out on May 8 and described as temporarily closed, with no reopening date. On May 5, crews were tearing down the former Pig Stand building on Broadway. The restaurant itself had closed in 2023.
Down the street, the Alamo Quarry Market is getting a different kind of first. A Coach store of about 5,205 square feet is planned in former GameStop and Coldwater Creek spaces, with construction slated to begin in July.
October Around Broadway, by Date
The next few weeks put Sorrento's farewell on the same calendar as several of the area's cultural institutions. Food is one of this season's themes there too.
- Through Nov. 2: The San Antonio Botanical Garden's "Jardín de las Catrinas" fills 555 Funston Place with eight monumental Catrinas and more than 10,000 marigolds.
- Thursday, Oct. 8: Second Thursday at the McNay, with free general admission, art activities, food trucks and live music from 6 to 9 p.m.
- Saturday, Oct. 17: BOOtanica, the Botanical Garden's family Halloween event, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is also Sorrento's last day at 5146 Broadway.
- Friday, Oct. 30: Two McNay exhibitions open and run through Jan. 24, 2027. "Modern Paris: A Century Begins" brings together more than 50 works. "Suki Seokyeong Kang: Mountain—Hour—Face" presents nearly 40 works and is the first solo exhibition by a South Korean artist in the museum's history.
- Saturday, Oct. 31: The Botanical Garden's Día de los Muertos celebration, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
At the Witte Museum, "Gather 'Round the Table: Texas Food Traditions" runs through Feb. 7, 2027, with interactive displays and a live educational demonstration. Its centennial exhibition, "The Witte Museum: 100 Years," is listed as temporarily closed through Jan. 9, 2027. The Alamo Heights Farmers Market meets Sundays at the Alamo Quarry Market, rain or shine, with live music. It closes on the Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday weekends.
For more background on how Broadway's newer projects have fit into the neighborhood's rules, see our look at the Grove Place height decision. Our Alamo Heights neighborhood page covers the streets on either side of the corridor.
When outside restaurant groups put their first San Antonio money on a few blocks of Broadway, it tells you something about how the area around your Alamo Heights property is being valued right now. If you'd like to talk through what this kind of corridor activity means for a home you own nearby, Trinie Johnson is happy to walk you through it. Request a Confidential Consultation.
