Pre-Opening Restaurant Leads in Texas — Updated Every Monday
Every week, new restaurants and bars across Texas file for or receive their TABC liquor licenses — public filings that surface weeks or months before a location opens its doors, hires staff, or places its first orders. For food and beverage distributors, POS resellers, kitchen equipment dealers, insurance agents, and marketing agencies that sell into the hospitality industry, each of these filings is a pre-opening restaurant lead: a real business, at a real address, that has not yet chosen its vendors. OpeningWire turns Texas's public TABC data into a weekly lead feed built specifically for B2B sales into new restaurants and bars — filtered to sellable categories, classified by type, deduplicated to one row per premises, and delivered by email every Monday for the Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio metros, with statewide coverage available. Below is a live sample of the newest licensed venues across Texas, pulled directly from this week's data.
| Venue | Type | Status | City | Metro | Licensed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hiro's Kitchen Sushi & Sake | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Fort Worth | DFW | Jul 7 |
| MOD Pizza | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Mckinney | DFW | Jul 17 |
| MOD Pizza | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Leander | Austin | Jul 9 |
| New Vibes - Tech Ridge (mod Pizza) | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Austin | Austin | Jul 1 |
| New Vibes - Buda | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Buda | Austin | Jul 6 |
| Hat Creek Burger Company | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Fulshear | Houston | Jul 24 |
| Chipotle Mexican Grill #5457 | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Houston | Houston | Jul 22 |
| Hat Creek Burger Company | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Live Oak | San Antonio | Jul 22 |
| La Nueva Mexicana | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Arlington | DFW | Jun 26 |
| Sidetracked Sports Bar & Grill | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Cypress | Houston | Jun 26 |
| Frank's Pollo Asado Los Nortenos | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | San Antonio | San Antonio | Jun 30 |
| Buck Horn Icehouse | Bar / Club | Newly Licensed | San Antonio | San Antonio | Jun 30 |
| Har Creek Burger Company | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Lakeway | Austin | Jul 3 |
| Hat Creek Burger Co | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Austin | Austin | Jul 3 |
| Hat Creek Burger Company | Restaurant | Newly Licensed | Austin | Austin | Jul 22 |
| + 368 more this week — subscribers see everything | |||||
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What's in the weekly feed
One CSV per metro plus a statewide file: trade name, category (restaurant / bar-club), address, city, county, license type, and the date each venue was filed or licensed.
Built for sales, not research
Every row is a real premises, deduplicated by address and owner — not a raw license-by-license export you have to clean up yourself.
Delivered, not just published
The full feed lands in your inbox every Monday. No login, no dashboard to remember to check.
Frequently asked questions
What is a pre-opening restaurant lead?
A business that has filed a TABC application or received a license but has not yet opened — the earliest point a supplier can reach them, before they've chosen a distributor, POS system, or equipment vendor.
How fresh is this data?
The pipeline checks Texas's public TABC filings daily and delivers a complete, classified feed every Monday morning.
How do I get the full statewide list?
OpeningWire is a CSV subscription — every new application and newly licensed venue in your territory, weekly. Plans start at $99/month; see pricing on the homepage.