Argyle's Downtown Already Has an Address on US 377

"Picture an old-fashioned Main Street that looks like it is straight out of 1881," Argyle Business Association CEO Lynn Seeden said in June, as the town council discussed its Town Center plans. She described "wide sidewalks with bistro tables and people dining and having coffee together, lights in the trees." The Cross Timbers Gazette reported her remarks as Argyle worked on easement agreements for a brick-paved Main Street north of FM 407, along the east side of US 377.

Construction of that street has not started. Along a few hundred feet of US 377 near Cook Street, the bistro-table part of her picture is already open. From 401 to 429 US-377 you can now get breakfast at 7 a.m., a burger at 2 p.m., a cocktail on a covered patio at 10 p.m. on a Saturday, and take-home dinner for a weeknight. The town's plans for the next few years are designed to connect to this block. This fall, the block itself is the closest thing Argyle has to a downtown.

Three Doors, One Stretch of Highway

The row is small enough to list in full.

None of these places opened as part of a master plan, and each one fills a different part of the day. In its own words, The Argyle Social is "Argyle's neighborhood restaurant and bar." It took over the space Earl and Isabella's Taverna used to occupy, and the Cross Timbers Gazette reported its opening was set for Wednesday, July 29. When Quandary Kitchen & Market was preparing to open, the Gazette described a lunch and dinner kitchen paired with a market selling sandwiches, entrées, family-pack meals, soups and dressings to take home. Little Joe's Farmstead, at the south end of the row, is the Gazette's "good food with a good purpose" café.

How the Hours Hand Off

What makes this block work as a downtown is when its doors are open. Put the posted hours side by side and the three restaurants cover most of the day with very little gap between them.

• 7 a.m. Little Joe's Farmstead opens every day, and its menu lists breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m.
• 11 a.m. The Argyle Social opens every day for lunch. Its lunch menu covers burgers, wings, salads, sandwiches and stone-fired tavern pizza.
• 2 p.m. Little Joe's closes on Sundays and Mondays. Tuesday through Saturday it stays open until 7 p.m.
• 3 to 5 p.m. The Argyle Social runs weekday happy hour.
• 9 p.m. The Argyle Social closes Sunday through Thursday.
• 11 p.m. On Fridays and Saturdays, The Argyle Social stays open two hours later.

Monday through Thursday, two businesses on this block of US 377 cover 14 straight hours of service, and on Fridays and Saturdays that stretches to 16. Quandary's market adds dinner to go next door. Brunch at The Argyle Social is still listed as "Coming Soon!" on its site, so for now weekend mornings belong to Little Joe's. The Social also calls itself a game-day spot, offering beer buckets and the game "inside or out on the covered patio." That covered patio is what makes the late hours usable in a North Texas November.

A Holiday Season Planned Around the Row

Argyle's town calendar had no Christmas parade or tree lighting posted for November or December when this went to press. Most of the season's scheduled evenings are on this block instead, at The Argyle Social, with one civic morning at Town Hall.

The full list is on the Social's events page. Brunch with Santa on Dec. 19 is a special event, and the restaurant's regular brunch is still listed as "Coming Soon!"

The Nov. 7 event is a town program. According to the council agenda packet, the Arbor Day and Tree Giveaway offers 250 free trees for residents to pick up and plant on their own property. Certified arborists will be on hand to give planting guidance, and informational sessions inside Town Hall will cover animals and tree ecosystems. The event is one requirement for Argyle's Tree City USA application. If the Arbor Day Foundation approves it, 2026 will be the eighth straight year Argyle has earned the designation. With 250 trees on offer, it is a morning to arrive early.

The farmers market is the one regular gathering that is off for the season. The Argyle Farmers Market runs from 9 a.m. to noon on the second Saturday of each month, April through October, at the Argyle Community Church Student Center at 414 US 377. Its 2026 run ended with the October market.

The Empty Lot at 403 Is Where the Row Becomes a District

The construction site between Little Joe's and the church is where the town's plan joins the existing businesses. Argyle Marketplace, a 23,000-square-foot, three-building retail and office project by Colo Development Partners, broke ground in June at 403 U.S. Highway 377. According to the Denton Record-Chronicle, it will include a dedicated home for the Argyle Farmers Market, public restrooms, landscaping, pedestrian connections and access to the future Argyle Nature Trail. Completion was projected by the end of 2026.

These details matter more for what the block is today than for what it might become. Public restrooms and a permanent market site are what turn a set of separate restaurant parking lots into a place to walk around. When the market returns in the spring, it will move from across the highway at 414 to the Marketplace side of the row.

The first restaurant tenant also points toward the woods. Hurtado Barbecue, the North Texas barbecue business that grew from a 2018 food truck into locations in Mansfield, Fort Worth, Arlington and downtown Dallas, announced in August that its Argyle restaurant will be in a new Argyle Marketplace building with a patio. That patio will face the Argyle Nature Preserve. The Cross Timbers Gazette reported that the restaurant expects to open in spring 2027. The plan originally called for the old St. Argyle's/Fuzzy's building on Hwy 377. "We're still opening in Argyle, but plans have shifted a little – quite literally to the left," the restaurant said in its announcement.

Behind the Row, the Trees Come Next

The preserve that Hurtado's patio will face sits behind Little Joe's Farmstead and Rapid Med Urgent Care, near Hwy 377 and Cook Street. The town's bid posting describes a site of about 4.85 acres south of 202 Cook Street. The plan calls for a quarter-mile loop plus three 5-foot-wide connector trails linking neighboring developments to the east, west and north. Town staff told the Parks Board in August that surveys had found native species across the property, that invasive plants would be removed during construction, and that volunteers had helped route the trail around healthy trees.

The schedule is less certain than the design. In August, construction was forecast to start by the end of that month and finish by the end of December. At the Sept. 9 Parks Board meeting, staff said construction plans were still being finalized. On Oct. 14, the board's agenda included the Argyle Nature Trail's park rules. That puts the trail at the rule-writing stage. A walk through the trees after dinner is something to watch for next year, and nothing to plan for this holiday season.

Where Each Piece Stands

The proposed Main Street would stay open to cars, but it could close temporarily for the farmers market, holiday celebrations and parades. Council Member Chad Boyd told the council that this might be "what's most important in the long term." The larger Town Center District also includes a new Town Hall and police station south of FM 407, which ties the restaurant row to the civic side of the highway. Until then, Argyle's holiday season will be on the stretch of US 377 between 401 and 429, where Brunch with Santa at The Argyle Social on Dec. 19 is the last event on the calendar.

At K.E. Boyd, we follow which Argyle blocks are filling in and which are still waiting on plans. That kind of street-level detail tells you more about how a town will live than any rendering does. If you'd like to talk through how the Town Center plans affect the part of Argyle you're watching, let's connect.