Campisi’s plans new Dallas location, keeping house-made pasta and classics

Campisi’s is setting up another Dallas-area outpost at 5944 Royal Lane in Preston Royal, and the draw for North Dallas diners is not a reboot. The family-owned Italian-American brand says the new room will keep the familiar Campisi’s mix of house-made pasta dishes, thin-crust pizzas, chicken entrées, sandwiches, salads and longtime family recipes, with owner David Campisi saying the plan is to preserve the experience without major changes.

That kind of continuity matters in a market where plenty of restaurants try to win attention by reinventing themselves. Campisi’s is leaning the other way, using scratch-made pasta and a familiar menu to make the new location feel like an old neighborhood fixture from day one. The formula is straightforward, but it is also what gives the brand its staying power: approachable Italian-American comfort food served with the consistency regulars expect.

The company’s history gives the opening extra weight. Campisi’s was founded in 1946 and ties its story to Carlo Papa Campisi, whom it credits with helping introduce pizza to Dallas and with establishing what it describes as Texas’s first pizza place. That legacy still shapes how the brand presents itself now, with family ownership and inherited recipes doing as much work as any new design or marketing push.

Campisi’s already operates nine restaurants across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and the Preston Royal location will add another stop to that footprint. The opening is planned for August 1, giving the company another North Dallas address where pasta is still central, not decorative, and where the menu is built around the same old-school comforts that made the name matter in the first place.