Hacienda Crossings Finished Its Restaurant Turnover Before Its Stores Did

The restaurant row at Hacienda Crossings has already turned over. The big dining spaces along Dublin Boulevard near the Hacienda Drive exit once held a Black Angus, an Applebee's, a Fuddruckers and a World of Beer. Today they house a Mexican cantina, a Middle Eastern kitchen, a family-owned pho shop and a tequila gastropub. Each one arrived within roughly 18 months, and as of mid-October 2026 the center's online directory lists all of them.

The retail side is moving more slowly. In July 2026, Pleasanton Weekly reported that about a third of the center's storefronts would change hands over two years. Six shops and cafes had projected openings between July and the winter holidays. Most of the restaurants arrived on time. Most of the stores still show "Coming Soon." If you're picking a spot for dinner before a movie at the Regal this weekend, that gap tells you where to go.

Four Old Addresses, Four New Kitchens

The pattern is easiest to see address by address. Each space below held a well-known chain or a casual-dining concept. The new occupants are newer names, and several have only a few locations.

The first two rows have one technicality. El Dorado and Dish n Dash sit across the parking lot from the main center and have a different lessor. According to shopping center officials quoted by Pleasanton Weekly, that means they aren't counted as Hacienda Crossings tenants, even though both appear in the center's online directory. On foot, it's one restaurant row.

Pearl Bay Manor, a dim sum restaurant, sits across from the Regal Hacienda Crossings theater. Patch reported it open in November 2025. Activate Games at 4976 Dublin Blvd. appeared on the City of Dublin's list of recently opened businesses in its November/December 2025 business brief. Counting those two, the Hacienda Crossings area added at least six new places to eat or spend an evening before most of the announced shops opened their doors.

The Black Angus Space Sat Empty for Years

The largest of these changes is at the 4814 address. According to the Bay Area Telegraph, the former Black Angus had been empty since the steakhouse closed in 2021. El Dorado had been announced for the property well before it opened, with signs up and plans moving through 2025. The restaurant was serving guests by late June 2026.

The Telegraph described a menu that uses the size of the old steakhouse well. Tortillas are made fresh in-house, according to Dublin officials, and the menu runs from tableside guacamole and quesabirria tacos to enchiladas mole and a carne asada plate. The seafood section includes ceviche, camarones a la diabla and a $29.99 seven-seas seafood soup. Molcajetes, the volcanic-stone bowls of grilled meats, seafood and sauce, come in a vegetarian version as well. On the cantina side, a margarita flight is listed at $28, along with palomas, cantaritos and several styles of micheladas.

Next door, Dish n Dash took over the former Applebee's at 4808 Dublin Blvd. and serves Middle Eastern food. Pleasanton Weekly reported it as recently opened in early July. These two spaces had both belonged to national casual-dining chains, and both are serving food again.

The 2025 Wave Set the Direction

The summer 2026 openings were the second round. The first came in 2025, when Pleasanton Weekly counted Activate Games, Joe's Pho, Tequila Bar & Grill and Pearl Bay Manor among the center's additions. All four are still in the directory today.

Tequila Bar & Grill opened Jan. 27, 2025, in the former World of Beer space. It was the operator's second Bay Area location, a gastropub built around Mexican food and craft cocktails, Pleasanton Weekly reported.

Joe's Pho followed in early May 2025 at 4910 Dublin Blvd. It is family-owned, and the Dublin store joined the business's two San Leandro locations. In a Pleasanton Weekly roundup of Dublin's new restaurants, owner Joseph Nguyen named bún riêu with crab as his favorite dish and said, "It's a traditional Vietnamese dish that you eat on a holiday or gathering." The same article tracked the address's history: Fuddruckers first, then Xpress Eat, an Indian fusion restaurant, then pho.

Pearl Bay Manor added dim sum across from the theater in fall 2025. Patch noted that the restaurant has no website and pointed to dishes early diners mentioned, including har gow, shumai, deep-fried taro dumplings, beef chow fun and pumpkin with salted egg yolk. The restaurant serves a regular menu plus a dim sum lunch menu. Patch also placed it in Dublin's existing group of dim sum restaurants, alongside Koi Palace and Mayflower Restaurant.

Line up those openings and Mexican, Middle Eastern, Vietnamese and Cantonese food are now within a short walk of each other. In 2024, the main sit-down choices on this stretch were a steakhouse, a burger chain and a neighborhood grill.

The Stores Are Still Behind the Signs

The retail half of the turnover is a different story. Here's how the six announced tenants stand, comparing the opening timing Pleasanton Weekly reported in July with the center's own store pages in mid-October:

• Sally Beauty, a 1,796-square-foot store, was expected to open in July. The center's page now labels it "New" and lists hours.
• Jamba was expected to reopen in its former Hacienda Crossings spot in July. Its store page still says "Coming Soon."
• 88 Cardhouse was slated for August in a 5,200-square-foot space that will host trading card tournaments and events, like its Newark store. Its page still says "Coming Soon."
• Sana'a Café, a family-owned Yemeni coffee house moving into the former Starbucks space, was scheduled for September or October. Its page still says "Coming Soon."
• World Market was projected for October at 4906 Dublin Blvd., the former Any Mountain. Its page still says "Coming Soon."
• Miniso, going into the former Party City, was planned for before the winter holidays. It doesn't appear in the center's directory yet.

Sana'a Café is the one to watch if coffee before a movie matters to you. Its flagship is in San Francisco, with other shops in Oakland, San Rafael, Sacramento, Lake Forest and Los Angeles. The menu covers Yemeni coffees and teas, specialty drinks, fresh pastries and desserts. For 88 Cardhouse, the Bay Area Telegraph wrote in late July that no exact grand opening date had been announced. Until these doors open, call ahead or check the business's own channels before making the trip.

The long-running anchors haven't changed. Regal Cinemas, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, TJ Maxx, Ulta Beauty, PGA TOUR Superstore, Old Navy and Five Below are all still in the directory. The turnover has happened around them, mostly in the mid-size boxes and the freestanding restaurant pads.

A Movie Night Using Only Open Doors

Because the restaurant side is finished, you can plan an evening at Hacienda Crossings this weekend without relying on anything still marked "Coming Soon":

1. Early dinner on the restaurant row. For a sit-down meal with drinks, try El Dorado's molcajetes or a margarita flight. For something lighter, Dish n Dash is next door. For a bowl of soup, Joe's Pho's bún riêu is the dish its owner recommends.
2. Or lunch, if it's a matinee. Pearl Bay Manor's dim sum lunch menu is across from the theater, so it's an easy match for an afternoon showing.
3. The movie. Regal Cinemas is still the center of the property.
4. After the credits. Tequila Bar & Grill covers cocktails and a late bite, and Activate Games is on the same property for groups that want to keep the evening going.

If your weekend runs beyond the center, the City of Dublin is hosting Cinema at the Cemetery on Friday, Oct. 30, at Dublin Heritage Park and Museums, 6600 Donlon Way. Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" will be projected onto the Historic Kolb Hay Barn, with free cemetery tours at 5:30 p.m. and the movie starting at about 6 p.m. The city lists the event as free.

Over the holidays, keep an eye on the "Coming Soon" pages for World Market, Sana'a Café, Jamba and 88 Cardhouse, and watch for Miniso to show up in the directory.

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