If you have lived in Turtle Creek, Victory Park, or the blocks off Cedar Springs for more than a couple of summers, you already know the August rhythm here. Mornings on the Katy Trail before the shade burns off, a stretch of dead afternoon, then a decision at 6 p.m. about whether the evening is worth the drive to Knox or Deep Ellum. This August is the first one where that last question has a different answer.
The reason is a compressed cluster of openings inside a ten-minute walk of one another, most of them tied to a daytime workforce that did not exist at this density three years ago. The neighborhood has a new indoor map, and Klyde Warren's programming calendar has finally caught up to it.
The Cedar Springs corridor, in one walk
Start at 2323 Cedar Springs Road. 23Springs is a 642,000 square foot, Class AA mixed-use development in the heart of Uptown Dallas, delivered in August 2025, with a 26-story office tower that is the tallest in Uptown, two freestanding, fully leased restaurant buildings and a half-acre neighborhood park. As of early February 2026 the project was 74 percent leased, with new signings from UBS, Stonelake Capital Partners and a confidential tenant. That leasing pace is the whole reason the restaurant program below it exists.
Three concepts anchor the base of the tower:
- Little Ruby's, the New York-born Australian all-day café from Wish You Were Here Group. The 3,024 square-foot Dallas location opened on February 2, 2026 in one of 23Springs' freestanding restaurant buildings. The room features red travertine flooring, white oak millwork, and a custom cowhide wall installation by Texas-based artist Kyle Bunting, and the menu covers brekkie, lunch, and dinner with the Bronte Burger, Spicy Vodka Pasta, and Ricotta Hotcakes.
- Élephante, the coastal Italian concept out of Santa Monica. It is opening at 23Springs in the first quarter of 2026.
- Torchy's Tacos, in the third restaurant slot, plus LRC, a to-go coffee and breakfast window that the Wish You Were Here Group opened inside the 23Springs lobby for customers and the community.
Walk five minutes northeast on Maple and you reach 2927 Maple Ave, which is the address most long-term Uptown residents know as The Stoneleigh.
What actually opened at The Stoneleigh
The building has been here since 1923. The current version has not. The Stoneleigh, now part of Marriott Bonvoy's Autograph Collection, is fresh off a $20 million renovation with updated interiors, a redesigned pool and terrace, and two new culinary concepts, Lions Den and Bar Leonessa, which opened May 7, 2026.
Both come from Michael White, whose career, per industry coverage, includes five Michelin stars held simultaneously earlier in his career. The two rooms are meant to be used differently through the day, and for a resident that distinction matters more than it does for a hotel guest.
Lions Den is the destination room. It is a modern Italian supper club drawing on the Stoneleigh's past, aiming to capture the glamour of Dorothy Draper's bold, maximalist sensibility through a contemporary lens, and once evening falls it transforms into a darker and moodier space. The pastas are the anchor of the menu, with tagliatelle, agnolotti, and bucatini in rotation.
Bar Leonessa is the room to actually build a Tuesday around. It is designed to move with the entire arc of the day, built around a marble bar, evolving from aperitivos to cocktails to a late-night social setting with curated music and programming, with reimagined classics and tableside preparation from a custom beverage cart.
And then there is the pool, which is the piece most people miss. The Stoneleigh Summer Club launched in partnership with Veuve Clicquot, with poolside dining by Michael White that elevates Americana favorites like lobster rolls and frozen cocktails. It is one of the few places in this stretch of the neighborhood where you can sit in water and order food that is not from a chain.
Two more openings round out the Uptown map worth knowing this month. Babel, in the Centrum building in the former Steel space, is a new upscale Mediterranean concept from Mo Kamal of Open Sesame, with his sister, chef Zeina Kamal, running a Lebanese-leaning menu of mezze and grilled meats. Andreas Prime Steaks & Seafood took the old Morton's space; chef-owner Andreas Kotsifos brought over popular dishes from his Allen original, including beef Wellington and lobster mac and cheese, and added Bar Cosette as an intimate cocktail lounge.
Klyde Warren in August, by the calendar
The park still runs the free programming that makes the neighborhood the neighborhood. The 5.4-acre park relies on contributions from donors to keep it clean, safe and active for more than 2 million visitors each year. Here is what is worth walking over for this month:
| Date | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Aug 7 | Dallas Community Vendors Market | Morning, on the great lawn |
| Fri, Aug 14 | Dallas Silent Disco | 8 p.m., check-in near Mi Cocina |
| Thursdays | KidLinks music and movement | 10 to 10:45 a.m., ages 2 to 6 |
| Ongoing | KXT Summer Concert Series | Free shows at the Muse Family Performance Pavilion |
The KXT series runs at the Muse Family Performance Pavilion with food trucks and beverages, all shows free and open to the public. If you have not been in a while, the KidLinks slot is the reason to bring a toddler out before the heat sets in.
There are two other standing pieces of the park's summer that residents tend to under-use. Spike & Sip Social is a Friday open-play volleyball happy hour presented by Dallas Sport & Social Club, and the green piano near the food trucks is free to walk up and play. Both fit the current-resident use case of the park better than the marquee festivals do.
The Katy Trail change most residents have not clocked
Between the new tower, the reopened hotel, and the park programming, the piece that ties the neighborhood together is still the Katy Trail. What has quietly shifted is how it is being paid for and what is coming next.
The trail runs 3.5 miles from American Airlines Center to Mockingbird Station, and it is not a city park in the way most people assume. Maintaining the 3.5-mile Katy Trail comes with an annual cost of over $1.5 million, and Friends of the Katy Trail funds that work through memberships and campaigns. This spring, they moved the number. The Spring 2026 campaign raised a record-breaking $170,000 in operations funds for the Trail for the first half of the year.
Two capital projects are also in motion, and both affect the walk you take on an August evening.
The Katy Trail 2024 City Bond Projects will bring a new entrance to the Trail and landscape restoration north of Knox.
That entrance is the piece most residents have not clocked yet. The stretch north of Knox has always been the pinch point, and it is about to get a real front door.
Further south, at Victory Avenue and Houston Street, The Loop Plaza is a first-of-its-kind development along the Katy Trail, turning the former retaining wall into a seamless open space that connects the surrounding neighborhoods, allowing the Katy Trail, Victory Park and the Design District to connect to West Dallas and the Trinity Strand Trail. Once it is finished, the trail stops being an out-and-back and starts being a loop, which changes what an evening walk in this neighborhood can be.
A Friday-to-Sunday routine that stays inside the neighborhood
Given all of the above, an August weekend without leaving the corridor now looks like this:
- Friday, 7 a.m. Katy Trail from the Bowen and Carlisle entrance while it is still under 80 degrees.
- Friday, 8 a.m. Breakfast at the LRC window in the 23Springs lobby or ricotta hotcakes at Little Ruby's.
- Friday, 6 p.m. Spike & Sip volleyball at Klyde Warren, food truck dinner on the lawn.
- Friday, 8 p.m. Silent Disco on August 14, or Bar Leonessa if it is any other week.
- Saturday, 10 a.m. Community Vendors Market on August 7, otherwise the KXT lineup for that evening.
- Saturday, 8 p.m. Lions Den for the tagliatelle if you booked ahead, Babel if you did not.
- Sunday morning. Poolside at the Stoneleigh Summer Club, lobster roll optional.
None of that requires a car. That is the actual news about August 2026 in this part of Dallas. The neighborhood is finally dense enough with dated, named programming and chef-driven rooms that a weekend can fit inside the walk from your front door to the trail and back.
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