Drive past 4344 Colgate Avenue on a Saturday morning right now and you'll find an empty parking lot where, two weeks ago, nearly 30 vendor tents were doing brisk business in tomatoes, honey, and breakfast tacos. Saint Michael's Farmers Market wrapped its regular season on schedule after Labor Day, and the west lot of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church has gone back to being just a parking lot until late October.
A short drive west on Northwest Highway, at its unglamorous corner with Midway Road, nothing has slowed down. On a Tuesday night this month, both restaurant patios there are full. That contrast is the actual story of how Preston Hollow eats right now: the neighborhood's most visible food ritual just went dormant for the season, while the corner that quietly replaced two of its oldest restaurants in under two years keeps running at full speed, season or no season.
What Actually Happened to Saturday Mornings
Nothing broke. Saint Michael's Farmers Market has always run on this cycle: Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon, late April through Labor Day, in the church's west parking lot. This year that meant its last regular Saturday landed on September 5, the Saturday right before the Labor Day holiday itself. The market is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit staffed by a volunteer committee from the church, and vendor fees alone don't cover the season. The market runs an annual fundraising push to close the gap, which says something about how thin the margin is on keeping a neighborhood market like this alive at all.
The market isn't gone for good. According to its own event listings, there are two pop-ups left on the 2026 calendar: a Fall Family Day the last Saturday of October, back at the church, and a Holiday Market the second Saturday of December at Klyde Warren Park. That second one is worth noting for what it isn't: it's not in Preston Hollow. For one Saturday a year, the market's biggest event of the season leaves the neighborhood entirely and sets up downtown.
So if a resident's mental model of the market is "runs from spring through fall, same as any other," that's off by nearly two months and one relocation. The gap between Labor Day and late October is real, and it's the reason the corner over on Northwest Highway matters more this month than it might in June.
The Corner That Didn't Take a Season Off
For 24 years, the restaurant at 4343 West Northwest Highway was Suze, a chef-owned bistro known for cast iron tenderloin and orecchiette that closed after its final service in late June 2024. Its longtime owner, chef Gilbert Garza, handed the lease to Katz Bros. Hospitality, the group behind Beverley's Bistro & Bar, Clifton Club, and Green Point Seafood & Oyster Bar. Brothers Greg and Nik Katz opened Claremont in that same space on December 12, 2024, naming it for the Cape Town suburb where their grandparents lived. The menu leans into neighborhood comfort food: deviled eggs, a hot black bean dip, brisket sliders smoked by Zavala's Barbecue, roasted chicken, and a patio built around mature oak trees. Texas Monthly's review noted that Preston Hollow, for all its size, offers only a handful of sit-down options, which is exactly why the handoff from Suze to Claremont mattered so much to people who live nearby.
A few doors down at 4347 West Northwest Highway, a second 20-year fixture went through the same cycle on a faster timeline. Fernando's Mexican Cuisine closed in May 2025. By February 13, 2026, the space had reopened as Cantina La Rosa, a Tex-Mex concept from David Tripplehorn Cash, the restaurateur behind Smoky Rose, with Rolando Garcia running the kitchen and Oscar Aroche as general manager. The menu runs from chicken tinga tostadas at $14 to blackened redfish at $27, with a Cantina Protein Bowl at $17 and a cheeseburger with poblano peppers at $17. One of the partners told the Dallas Morning News the restaurant was built specifically to give Bluffview and Preston Hollow residents a dining option close to home, in a stretch of northwest Dallas that had gone without one.
A few minutes away on Walnut Hill Lane, a separate cluster called Preston Hollow Village runs its own rotation, anchored by Mesero, Centrale Italia, and the newer arrival Ella, which shares a lounge with Customs Speakeasy. It's a different address and a different kind of night out, but it's evidence of the same pattern: this neighborhood's tables keep changing hands, and residents keep showing up for whoever moves in next.
Why the Timing Matters More Than the Turnover
Two of the neighborhood's longest-running restaurants, one with a 24-year tenure and one with 20 years, closed within about eleven months of each other on the same short stretch of road. That's not a coincidence of bad luck. It's what happens when a neighborhood has genuinely few sit-down options to begin with: every closure registers immediately, and every reopening gets tested by regulars fast.
| Address | Previous tenant | Closed | Current tenant | Opened |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4343 W. Northwest Hwy | Suze (24 years) | Late June 2024 | Claremont | Dec. 12, 2024 |
| 4347 W. Northwest Hwy | Fernando's (20 years) | May 2025 | Cantina La Rosa | Feb. 13, 2026 |
Both new owners built their pitch around the same idea: be the place people come back to three or four times a week, not once a quarter. Greg Katz has said as much about Claremont directly. Cantina La Rosa's partners have said the same thing about wanting to be a weekly habit rather than a special-occasion drive across town. Neither restaurant is chasing a citywide crowd. Both are betting on the same short list of streets that used to be served by Suze and Fernando's.
A Preston Hollow Week, Right Now
Put the two threads together and this September looks different than it did in June. There's no Saturday morning market run until Fall Family Day at the end of October, and the market itself won't be back in the neighborhood for its bigger holiday event at all, since that one happens at Klyde Warren Park in December. But dinner is covered every night of the week. Claremont and Cantina La Rosa sit two doors apart at Northwest Highway and Midway, and a few minutes down Walnut Hill Lane, Preston Hollow Village's Mesero, Centrale Italia, and Ella round out the more polished side of the rotation.
The neighborhood didn't lose a food scene when two of its oldest restaurants closed, and it isn't missing one now that its market has gone quiet for the season. What changed is where the daily habit lives. For most of the last two years, that's been a two-restaurant stretch of Northwest Highway that never stopped serving dinner, market season or not.
That kind of turnover, where two decades-old restaurants close and reopen as something new within the same calendar year, is also a signal worth watching if you're paying attention to how a corner like this holds its value. Wiebe Real Estate tracks these shifts in Preston Hollow alongside the retail and leasing changes we've covered at the neighborhood's other corners, because knowing which streets are actively reinventing themselves is part of knowing the neighborhood at all. If you're weighing a move here, or already live two blocks from Midway and want a read on what a changing corner means for your own property, work with us.
