First Portillo's, now Quartino: Grandscape in The Colony offers a slice of Chicago
Not much about The Colony, a suburb of Dallas, is like Chicago. The Colony is hot, flat and suburban. Chicago is windy, often cold and urban. But a...
Not much about The Colony, a suburb of Dallas, is like Chicago. The Colony is hot, flat and suburban. Chicago is windy, often cold and urban. But allow them two exceptions: Italian beef shop Portillo's and pasta restaurant Quartino both hail from Chicago, and both have found a high-profile home at the $1.5 billion Grandscape development west of the Dallas North Tollway, off of State Highway 121. We've covered Portillo's expansion into Texas extensively. It was the biggest restaurant opening in early 2023 in North Texas, and it remains a talker even though drive-through lines have slimmed from an hour's wait to just a few minutes for hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches.