Frisco News

Deep Ellum's Flea Style expands to Frisco with shop and cute tea room

Flea Style takes its flea style to Frisco.

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A Dallas flea market with an attached tea room will give Frisco a taste of indie-style shopping and dining.

Flea Style, the shopping marketplace for handmade, vintage, and one-of-a-kind fashion and home goods from local artisans and small businesses, is expanding to The Star in Frisco.

This is Flea Style's second location. Founder Brittany Cobb opened the original in Deep Ellum in June 2018. She chose Frisco for her second location after an outdoor pop-up she held at the Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters was a success.

She'll open the 6,200-square-foot space in late summer, and will include a Flea Style store as well as an event space and culinary concept dubbed Heirloom Haul, a new company Cobb started to cater to her retail and event customers.

Heirloom Haul will be a fast-casual dining concept to reflect the antique mall tea room she frequented as a child with her interior designer mother in Southern California. The menu is a collaboration with a SoCal chef and has a California-meets-Texas flavor offering healthy sandwiches and salads with local ingredients including heirloom tomatoes.

The menu will also include a tea service with bite-size sandwiches as well as artisanal iced and hot tea options.

"As a child I grew up in antique malls and always loved the back mom-and-pop restaurants that served classic and yummy sandwiches, salads, and homemade sweets," Cobb says. "We will do the same but with loads more flair and fancy ingredients. The menu offers a mix of sandwiches and salads as well as a tea sandwich program and charcuterie boards along with artisan teas, coffee, wine, and beer."

After opening Heirloom Haul in Frisco, Cobb plans to open a second location later this year in Deep Ellum next door to their current HQ.

She'll also continue to host Market at the Star three times a year.

The new space will include 3,000 square feet of retail featuring home décor, fashion, jewelry, kids items, pet gear, lighting, textiles, and paper goods by Flea Style's long roster of small creative businesses.

Frisco will also house Flea Style Game Day, a custom sports collection made by local designers from repurposed and new apparel. The line will launch with Dallas Cowboys products from children’s rompers made from vintage 90s tees to bespoke jeans painted and studded with stars.

Attached to the store will be the Flea Style Studio, a 1,350-square-foot event space for private parties, art camps, workshops with Flea Style artisans, and other creative gatherings. Cobb also plans to tape the company's weekly "Fridays with Flea Style" podcast live from the studio.

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Times Square News

Dallas' buzzy Kitchen + Kocktails by Kevin Kelley heads to Times Square

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Lobster tail at Kitchen + Kocktails by Kevin Kelley

A downtown Dallas restaurant and nightspot is hitting the Big Apple: Kitchen + Kocktails by Kevin Kelley, known for its Southern comfort food and clubby atmosphere, is opening a location in New York, in none other than Times Square.

According to a release, they'll occupy a 10,000-square-foot space that was formerly home to a restaurant called Pink Taco, at the corner of 42nd Street, Broadway, and Seventh Avenue. This will be their eighth location (with Boston also in the works), as well as the largest and most visible, and it's anticipated to open in summer 2026.

"Every city we've opened in has become home," Kelley says in a statement. "New York is where the world watches. Opening at Times Square isn't just an expansion — it's a statement. We built our way here, one city at a time, on our own terms. We can't wait to humbly welcome New York home."

Kelley was a driven entrepreneur and attorney new to the food & beverage world when he opened the first location in downtown Dallas at 1933 Elm St. in 2020. It immediately drew a refreshingly integrated crowd with its mix of Southern comfort food — shrimp & grits and fried catfish are specialties — with Kelley savoring his role as the man on the scene, walking the floor to welcome guests, which often include Black celebrities and athletes.

Kelley's culinary story began in the South, under the guidance of his grandmother who taught him not just recipes but reverence for good ingredients, Southern traditions, and the art of hospitality.

The menu is anchored by soul food traditions elevated with refined technique and bold flavor in dishes such as Fried Chicken and Waffles, Blackened Shrimp and Grits with Lobster Tail, and Jamaican Jerk Lamb Chops. Cocktails include Peach D'Ussé Frosé, Gold Old Fashioned, and a Blackberry Margarita.

Since the concept debuted in Dallas, Kelley has opened locations in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Charlotte, Philadelphia, and Miami, with Boston also opening Summer 2026.

Every location features an iconic rose wall as well as live music — drawing celebrities such as Jesse Jackson, Tina Knowles, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Meg Thee Stallion, Klay Thompson, 50 Cent, Joseph Sikora, Phylicia Rashad, Malik Nabers, Dak Prescott, Jayson Tatum, Tyrese Maxey, Kawhi Leonard, Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers, and a host of entertainers, athletes, and cultural icons.

Reservations opened on May 5 at kitchenkocktailsusa.com/newyork.

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