At the corner of Evans Road and Stone Oak Parkway, a two-story retail building has been going up since spring 2025. Its future tenants include a Paris Baguette, a Box St. All Day and a Crust Pizza Co. Its finish date has moved several times. Meanwhile, along the north frontage of Loop 1604, three new restaurants opened their doors between mid-September and October with little fanfare.
If you want somewhere new to eat in Stone Oak this fall, go to the Loop 1604 spots. Stone Oak Mercantile is a 2027 story. The building itself is expected to be finished in December, but KSAT reported in September that its businesses are expected to open "throughout 2027."
What opened along Loop 1604 this fall
All three of these are open now, and you don't have to wait on any construction schedule to try them.
Báltico Seafood and Grill, 402 N. Loop 1604 W.
Báltico took over the space that the all-day breakfast chain Eggspectation used to occupy. According to the San Antonio Express-News, it ran a soft opening from Oct. 1 through Oct. 4. The restaurant is modeled on a place of the same name in Torreón, Mexico, and the menu is built almost entirely around seafood. Starters include a campechano cocktail with shrimp, clams, octopus and squid, plus fish ceviche with cilantro, avocado and serrano, and octopus chicharrón.
The shrimp gets its own section of the menu, with eight preparations including chipotle, mole, coconut and a version wrapped in cheese and bacon. Seafood also shows up in the tacos, tostadas and charcoal-fired pizzas. The "four seas taco" holds octopus, squid, shrimp and tuna, and one pizza is topped with salmon, capers and red onion. If you have guests who think Tex-Mex begins and ends with enchiladas, Báltico gives them something different.
Fresh Bowl & Co., 115 N. Loop 1604 E., Suite 2103
This is the first U.S. location for a concept that grew out of Salad Bowl, a restaurant the same family has run in Puebla, Mexico, for about 15 years. MySA reported that you build your own bowl from more than 50 ingredients, 10 proteins and 10 dressings. Its grand opening, with a ribbon cutting and free bowls for the first 50 customers, was scheduled for Oct. 17. It's the quickest weeknight option of the three.
Two Greeks Grill, 1903 N. Loop 1604 E., Suite 1106
CultureMap San Antonio announced Two Greeks Grill's North Side debut on Sept. 17. Five weeks later, the San Antonio Current put it on its list of restaurants and bars that have opened in San Antonio so far this year.
The Current's list includes one more Stone Oak spot from earlier in the year. Katerina Restaurant & Bar moved into the former Frida space at 18740 Stone Oak Parkway in February. Add it to the three above and you have four places that opened this year and are open now.
Stone Oak Mercantile has had four finish dates
Here's the shopping center's timeline, pieced together from MySA, KSAT and the state's construction filings:
- January 2025. Plans were filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for a two-story, 57,325-square-foot building at 20135 Stone Oak Parkway. The property owner is Canyon Golf JV Developer.
- Summer 2025. This was the completion target on the website of Fulcrum, the company developing the site.
- March 2025. Crews started work on site.
- March 1. In July 2025, this was the reported finish date.
- November 2026. By this spring, a TDLR filing had moved completion to November 2026.
- December 2026. In August, Fulcrum told MySA it planned to turn over the shopping center as a whole in December 2026.
When MySA visited the site on Aug. 12, heavy equipment was still working. Some structures were standing, but there were still mounds of gravel and dirt, and there was no parking lot or paved entrance yet. That leaves a lot of site work to fit between late summer and a December handover. Even if December holds, KSAT's report sets the expectation for what comes next, with businesses opening over the course of 2027 rather than all on opening day.
Who is coming, and when each one has said it will open
The center has room for up to two dozen businesses. Not every tenant has announced an opening date. The dates that do exist all fall in 2027, and the latest one belongs to the anchor tenant.
- Crust Pizza Co. This Woodlands-based chain already has locations in Cibolo and New Braunfels, and this will be its first in San Antonio. The San Antonio Business Journal reported a target of May 2027 for a restaurant of about 2,702 square feet.
- Box St. All Day. This will be the brand's fourth San Antonio location and the center's anchor. A partner told MySA the goal is to open in mid-2027.
- Paris Baguette. This 3,750-square-foot bakery café will be the chain's third in San Antonio, after the first opened in the Gunter Hotel downtown in December 2025. A spring state filing projected that the build-out would finish in early October, and MySA noted at the time that those filings are subject to change. The center's later schedule puts tenant openings in 2027, and no opening date has been announced for this café.
- Black Rock Coffee. This will be the West Coast coffee bar's sixth location in the San Antonio area. No date has been announced.
- JetSet Pilates, The Gents Place, Swish Dental, and Boogie Nails and Lash. All four are on the tenant list, and none has announced an opening date.
Lined up together, the dates point to a center that will open gradually. Crust Pizza is aiming for May, Box St. for mid-2027, and the rest have given no date. When the building is handed over in December, the storefronts will still need interior build-outs before they can open.
Why Paris Baguette's date slipped
Paris Baguette is a good example of why the building's finish date says little about the businesses. When MySA first reported the Stone Oak café in April, it was expected "towards the end of the year," with construction starting in early June. At that point, the shell around it was also expected to finish in November. Since then, the building has moved to December and the tenants have moved to 2027. A café can't open before the building around it is finished, the parking lot is paved and the entrance from Stone Oak Parkway is built.
Until then, the closest Paris Baguettes are downtown at the Gunter Hotel and at the second San Antonio location MySA reported for Fulcrum's Landmark North development, at I-10 and Loop 1604. If you need a pastry stop closer to home this winter, MySA's same article points out that La Panadería's 6,600-square-foot location is in Stone Oak.
Planning your fall around what's open
For the rest of 2026, the new places to eat in Stone Oak are on Loop 1604 and at Katerina on Stone Oak Parkway. That includes the end-of-year dinners and out-of-town visitors around Thanksgiving. Báltico works for a sit-down seafood dinner, Fresh Bowl & Co. for a fast and flexible lunch, and Two Greeks Grill for Greek food on the east side of Loop 1604.
The building at Evans Road and Stone Oak Parkway will probably look finished well before any of its tenants open. A fence coming down or a parking lot being striped this winter means the shell is done. The tenant dates to watch are Crust Pizza in the spring and Box St. around mid-year, and the remaining storefronts will announce their own dates as they get closer.
Much of my work starts with households asking me what's actually coming down the road and when, whether that's a new shopping center, a road project or the next round of openings near home. If you're settled in Stone Oak and want help sorting out which new developments nearby are real and which are still on paper, I'm happy to talk it through. Marcus T. Wood | Let's Connect
