Houston-based Tres Market Foods is coming to the Dallas area and bringing its love for delicious homemade food with it.
Tres Market Foods is a market and café that specializes in fresh, high-quality prepared meal options. Its new location will open in the Dallas neighborhood of Knox Street and Highland Park.
The market is overtaking what was once an employment office at 4919 McKinney Ave.
This will be the third Tres Market location, with two others already serving customers in Houston in the neighborhoods of Memorial and River Oaks, both neighborhoods similar to Highland Parks.
Memorial and Highland Parks are both generally considered wealthier neighborhoods. Memorial residents’ median income was $102,818 in 2020. The median income of Highland Park residents in 2020 was $218,611. The median home price for a house in River Oaks is $1.9 million, according to realtor.com.
Julie Rhyne and Jeannine Holland founded the company in 2001, CultureMap Dallas reported. The two moms wanted to fill the market gap of homemade prepared meals.
Tres Market Foods includes a grocery store, café, bakery, wine shop, and coffee shop.
All prepared foods are made in-house, such as applewood ham and broccoli quiche, beef tenderloin quesadillas, and chicken tetrazzini. The prepared meals are sold frozen or fresh in sizes anywhere from individual to family-sized.
Additionally, Tres Market Foods sell box lunches for $12. The box lunches include a sandwich, fruit, a bag of chips, and a cookie. Sandwich options include smoked ham and Swiss cheese on a pretzel roll and chicken salad on cranberry walnut bread, among others.
Their specialty grocery goods are perfect for a gift basket, with a variety of cured meats, pickled vegetables, cheeses, kinds of vinegar, jams, and wine.
You can also eat inside at their coffee bar seating and get a breakfast taco, scone, or latte.
The Dallas location has not been fully planned, but the company is expecting to utilize a 3,700-square-foot space with a large patio and a parking lot behind the building.
Rhyne’s daughter, Lauren Van Wagenen, who is a Dallas resident herself, is spearheading the expansion project.
Van Wagenen told CultureMap that she started looking for a spot in Dallas in 2021 and has “been begging for a location in Dallas for years.”
She knew the location was perfect for the Tres Market Foods concept and credits the company’s landlord, Streetlights Residential, for making it possible by aiding them in the construction process.
She is also grateful to the two founders for including her in the venture.
Van Wagenen will serve as the operating manager of the Dallas location, a job she pursued in lieu of her finance career.
The food fare offered at Tres Market Foods holds particular significance to Van Wagenen, who stated that “these are all the recipes my mom made that we grew up with.”
