1902 Restaurant in Downtown Prosper: What Opens Oct. 6
October 8, 2026
October 8, 2026
1902 Restaurant opens next Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 209 W. Broadway St. Opening night will cover only part of the building. To start, the restaurant is opening its first-floor bar and dining room for dinner. Rooftop seating, brunch, lunch and Mary Ann's speakeasy on the second floor will follow in later phases, the business said on social media.
The rooftop lounge and hidden speakeasy drew most of the attention when this project was announced. None of the later phases has a public date. This fall, then, 1902 is a downstairs dinner room on a block that already has a well-loved evening routine, and the full restaurant arrives later.
The opening has moved several times since the first announcement, and the sequence is useful background for reading Oct. 6:
Nobody has publicly explained the delays. The scope of the work is on record, though. The 2025 plans called for a new state-of-the-art kitchen, reworked interior seating and an elevator in a historic building. The first visible change was a coat of blue paint on the exterior wall. The elevator matters most for what comes next. A second-floor speakeasy and a rooftop lounge depend on getting guests upstairs, and the restaurant is opening the floor that doesn't require that.
Oct. 6 is the most specific date this project has set, but it is still an announced date. Before booking a celebration dinner for opening week, check the restaurant's own channels.
| Component | Status as of Sept. 30, 2026 |
|---|---|
| First-floor bar and dining room | Opening Oct. 6, dinner only |
| Lunch | Later phase |
| Brunch | Later phase |
| Rooftop seating | Later phase |
| Mary Ann's speakeasy, second floor | Later phase |
The menu has changed too. In February 2025, the plan was fine steaks, housemade pasta, fresh salads and desserts. Community Impact's March 2026 piece still described steaks, housemade pasta and desserts. By late August, the restaurant's website described steaks and American classics with a Tex-Mex twist, along with craft cocktails and a curated wine list. As of Sept. 27, the menu was still being finalized and was described as steaks and Tex-Mex fusion. The restaurant's Facebook page describes premium steaks with Texas-Mexican fusion flavors.
The chef is the same despite the new menu. Amy DiBiase, a Johnson & Wales graduate with more than 20 years in professional kitchens, is leading the kitchen. She is also chief operating officer and culinary director for Alora Hospitality Group. She trained in French cooking, worked on the East Coast and overseas, and ran a restaurant group in California. Most recently she led culinary operations at the Sanderling Resort in North Carolina. So the menu now leans Texas, cooked by a classically trained chef.
Co-owner Jason Young described the goal in 2025:
"We believe the community deserves an elevated dining experience that has great service, great food and a place to gather."
1902 takes its name from the year Prosper was founded. Directly across Broadway, The Gin at 204 W. Broadway operates in a building constructed in 1902, according to owner Michael Pettis. Starting next week, the year shows up on both sides of the street, once as a name and once as a construction date.
The 209 W. Broadway address has a history of its own. It was home to Prosper Wine House, which sold wine, beer, seltzer and charcuterie and closed Nov. 4, 2024. The storefront has been dark or under renovation for almost two years, and opening night ends that stretch.
The Gin shows how a downtown Prosper restaurant settles into its building over time. Pettis, a North Texas homebuilder, bought the building in 2015. Back then it was the Cotton Gin Cafe, a breakfast-and-lunch spot whose menu he described as "a big billboard." He narrowed the menu, added a brick pizza oven in 2017, and built a following around Wagyu burgers and Wagyu chicken-fried steak. He stocks high-end bourbon and is expanding the wine list. "People know that they can come here and not have to put a sport coat on," he told Community Impact in June.
On weekends, The Gin's back patio turns into a live-music space with cocktail tables and a dance floor. Local DFW artists play most weekends, and this year The Gin added a larger act once a month. Bingo on Broadway, the monthly fundraiser for Grand Love, also meets there. Starting Oct. 6, a dinner reservation at 1902 is a short walk across the street from a patio set.
With only 1902's downstairs room open, an October evening downtown combines the new dining room with the places already serving the street. The Prosper EDC's downtown dining directory names four of them alongside Highland Foods at 112 N. Coleman, and a shop on the same blocks rounds out the walk.
The corridor is bigger than that directory. A March 2026 Prosper Local News dining guide, cited by the Prosper-Celina Journal, also lists Heyday, Trick Rider, Hana Hibachi & Sushi and LaLa's Taqueria among the independent restaurants in downtown Prosper. 1902 joins an existing roster.
1902's first weekend overlaps with the Town of Prosper's Red River Rivalry Fan Fest. It runs Saturday, Oct. 10, from 1 to 5:30 p.m. at Downtown Prosper Plaza on Broadway Street. The event is free and has a giant screen, a DJ, games and food. A watch party that wraps up at 5:30 p.m. sends a crowd onto Broadway just as dinner service starts, in the same week a new dining room opens a few doors away. For a table at 1902 that evening, book ahead.
The weekend after, the Town's free Hometown Harvest Fair moves the action to Frontier Park at 1551 Frontier Parkway. It runs Saturday, Oct. 17, from 4 to 8 p.m. The Town lists music, games and competitions. Community Impact's preview adds a pumpkin patch, hayrides and a petting zoo.
Downtown has one more project close to finished. Parvin Park, at 401 E. Broadway, is under a $532,145 construction agreement the Town approved in January. A June 10 Parks and Recreation Board update said construction began March 31, concrete placement was about 90% complete, and work was expected to run into early fall. No opening has been announced yet. When it comes, the east end of Broadway gets a park within a short walk of 1418 Coffee.
When the rooftop and Mary Ann's speakeasy open, they will add a second-story view of the same Broadway blocks. For now, 1902's dining room opens Tuesday evening.
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