These Are the Restaurants Tyler Residents Want Back

(Tyler, Texas) Tyler restaurants are changing quickly, with recent closures, new locations, and expansions reshaping the local dining scene. From On The Border and Spring Creek Barbecue to new restaurants and businesses coming to town, the changes have East Texans thinking about the restaurants they remember and which nostalgic favorites they would most like to see return.

Tyler Restaurants That Have Recently Closed

Tyler has recently witnessed the closure of On The Border, a once popular Mexican restaurant that had some great fajitas and thirst-quenching margaritas. But the entire chain of restaurants closed. Then Spring Creek Barbecue on South Broadway closed. That place used to be packed on Sundays after church, partly because customers could get scoops of Blue Bell Ice Cream for free as a dessert! Within the last month, Tyler's Mexican-Chinese buffet concept, ElChino, closed its doors after being open for a few months. We can't forget about the sudden closure of Wendy's on the loop and Highway 155, but honestly, many of us saw that coming for a while.

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New Restaurants and Locations Coming to Tyler

Chicken salad fans will soon have another Tyler location of Roost. Roost has plans to open a location at the former Corner Bakery Cafe on Troup Highway. Great Harvest Bread will be opening another location in Tyler soon, just down the road in the Green Acres Shopping Center. Aztec Mexican will open a second location on South Broadway at Troup Highway near Stein Mart.

After an extensive remodel, Korean 88 BBQ on the loop in Tyler has opened to customers, and beginning Monday, September 21, Pizza Ranch in the French Quarter will open with its pizza buffet and game room.

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What's New Around Tyler Beyond Restaurants?

In addition to all the restaurant news, Tyler's retail business is expanding with another Brookshire's grocery store and an Academy Sports + Outdoors under construction on the west side of town. Further south along Broadway, a new BJ's Wholesale Club is being constructed. It's not all about restaurants and retail, though. Mini-golf will soon be returning to Tyler with the opening of The Yard on the site of the former Woodcreek Athletic Club.

Which Tyler Restaurants Do Locals Want Back?

So there is a lot happening in Tyler when it comes to restaurants and more. With so much happening around the Rose City, we asked on social media which restaurant you would like to see return to Tyler. The responses rolled in.

If your favorite nostalgic restaurant isn't featured, let me know, and it could make it on the next list. Email me anytime. I know how East Texas is about lists and nostalgia!