Argyle's Restaurant Scene: From Harvest Town Center to US-377
If you drove past the corner of I-35W and FM 407 this month, you probably noticed the new sign. Mo' Bettahs, the Hawaiian plate lunch chain founded by brothers Kimo and Kalani Mack, opened its doors at Harvest Town Center on August 14, its 14th Texas location and the newest tenant in a shopping center that already includes Tom Thumb, Chick-fil-A, and McDonald's. Chuy's is still finishing construction a few doors down. It is part of the restaurant growth taking place across Argyle.
The restaurant story extends beyond that corner.
Harvest Town Center earns its coverage honestly. It sits at one of the busiest new intersections in southern Denton County, and every tenant that has landed there is a company headquartered somewhere else, expanding into a fast-growing zip code. Chick-fil-A opened its Argyle location in August 2024 under local owner-operator Kenny Arthur, a 15-year Argyle resident who now runs day-to-day operations there. Mo' Bettahs followed this month with a soft opening on August 13 and a full grand opening the next day, complete with a ribbon cutting and complimentary plates for anyone who showed up.
A Tom Thumb-anchored center with national quick-service options is a real convenience for a town that didn't have many of them a decade ago. It is one part of Argyle's changing food scene.
The historic 377 corridor has its own restaurant stories, including two recent openings.
Brandon Hurtado didn't need Argyle. His barbecue brand already had locations in Arlington, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Mansfield, plus the official barbecue concession at Globe Life Field for the Texas Rangers. This spring, he opened his fifth location on US-377, in a space that had sat empty since a previous Cajun restaurant closed. The Dallas Observer quoted Hurtado's Facebook post:
"years after raising our family in Argyle, coaching sports here and delivering food to friends and family nearby, we've finally been blessed with the opportunity to open our FIFTH Hurtado Barbecue location in the heart of @townofargyle!"
Residents who used to drive to Fort Worth or Arlington for that particular style of smoked meat now have it a few minutes from home.
A short walk from there, Little Joe's Farmstead tells an even more specific story. Developer Jim Reid bought the old Johnny Joe's convenience store and gas station on Highway 377, a building that had sat there since the 1960s, and spent over a year turning it into a farmhouse-style café with rocking chairs on the porch. He opened it on October 1, 2024, as an extension of a restaurant he'd built in Houston years earlier, after his son Kevin was diagnosed with leukemia at age three and a half. Every dollar of profit from Little Joe's goes toward helping other families cover chemotherapy, radiation, and the everyday costs that pile up during pediatric cancer treatment. Reid has said the restaurant funds treatment costs for roughly 400 to 500 kids a month, and that the broader effort tied to his original Houston restaurant has helped more than 10,000 families over the years.
The town noticed the reception. Little Joe's hit its three-year sales goal within ten months of opening. In February 2025, the Argyle Municipal Development District approved a $100,000 grant to help Reid convert the outdoor patio into The Scoop, a walk-up ice cream shop that opened that July. In the same meeting, the council approved $40,000 for preliminary traffic and utility studies on a separate proposed town center project. The larger check went to the burger and coffee spot on the old gas station lot.
That's worth sitting with for a second. When a town's own economic development board puts more money behind an independent café than it does toward planning studies for a new commercial development, it's telling you something about which businesses it sees as anchors for the community, not just as tenants filling a strip center.
None of this means the rest of Argyle's food and community scene sits still waiting for a headline. The town's regular rhythm has been building quietly for a while now.
These are part of Argyle's local food and community scene, alongside restaurants at Harvest Town Center and along US-377.
Argyle's restaurant growth includes national brands at Harvest Town Center and independent businesses along US-377. The businesses and projects described here are part of that changing scene.
If you're already grabbing brisket on 377 or catching live music at Uncle Mike's on a Friday night, you already know this. If you're weighing a move to Argyle, the restaurants along US-377 and at Harvest Town Center offer one window into the town's changing food scene.
Molly Chance and the team at Texas Home Life Realty live and work in this stretch of Denton County, which means conversations about Argyle rarely stay confined to square footage. If you're curious what a particular street, corridor, or corner of town is really like day to day, that's a conversation worth having before you ever look at a listing. Reach out and schedule a call when you're ready.
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