An ice cream brand born in India and introduced to American customers in Texas is preparing to scoop its way into San Antonio. Dumont Creamery & Cafe is planning a 1,400-square-foot shop at The Portico at Shaenfield, bringing an Indian-rooted dessert and beverage concept to the Far West Side’s growing restaurant lineup.
CultureMap identifies the project as the brand’s first San Antonio-area location. The planned cafe at 7807 W. Loop 1604 N., Suite 2116, would extend a U.S. expansion that began in the Frisco/Little Elm area just three years ago.
The interesting part is what could fill the counter: ice cream inspired by South Asian sweets, layered falooda drinks and a beverage selection that reaches well beyond a scoop and a soda. Just as important is the setting. After years of development, The Portico is turning its restaurant plans into places where people can actually eat.
Dumont Creamery brings its India roots to Texas
Brothers Vivek and Bhashkaar Inampudi founded Dumont in India in 1999, inspired by their father’s dream of a gourmet ice cream shop. The business developed its Indian operations long before making the leap to the United States.
Texas became its American starting point. Reporting on the brand’s North Texas debut places its first U.S. opening in the Frisco/Little Elm area in late 2023, followed by Coppell. Subsequent expansion has taken the concept into other North and Central Texas markets, including Plano, Round Rock and Cedar Park.
That gives the San Antonio project two different timelines: an established Indian business behind the recipes and a comparatively young American cafe network still introducing itself to new markets. For local customers, the Portico shop would be a first nearby introduction to that combination.
From kheer ice cream to falooda
Dumont Creamery’s menu pairs familiar ice cream and cafe offerings with flavors drawn from South Asian food traditions. Kheer, a traditional rice-pudding dessert, becomes an ice cream inspiration. It offers an approachable way to try a different flavor through a familiar format: a scoop in a cup or cone.
Falooda goes in another direction. This chilled, layered dessert or drink commonly combines milk, syrup, vermicelli and ice cream, although ingredients and preparations vary. It is something to sip and spoon, with texture playing as much of a role as temperature.
The broader menu stretches into specialty coffee, milk tea, smoothies, fruit teas, lemonades, slushes and bakery items. Dumont’s own U.S. website organizes its offerings around scoops, sips and brews—a useful description of a business built for more than one kind of sweet stop.
Reporting on its Texas operations has described an effort to retain Indian flavor profiles as the brand grows. That cultural connection is part of its identity, alongside more familiar flavors and drinks. The exact San Antonio menu and selections have not been announced, so the existing offerings provide a preview of the concept rather than a confirmed local menu.
Dumont Creamery is growing in more than one Texas market
San Antonio is one piece of a broader Texas expansion. A separate registered project calls for a Dumont Creamery cafe at 21920 West Road in Cypress, where plans identify about 1,330 square feet and a filed construction estimate of $200,000. That schedule also extends into February 2027.
TCM previously covered the planned West Road cafe. Together, the two projects show the brand pursuing additional Texas markets at roughly the same time. Neither filing, by itself, establishes when customers will be able to walk through the door.
The Portico moves from shell buildings to dining destination
The Portico provides a particularly interesting landing spot. Developer Dominion Advisory Group describes approximately 54,000 square feet for the development, part of its larger Shaenfield Ranch commercial presence.
Its construction story reaches back to a 2022 registration for two new two-story retail and office shell buildings and related site infrastructure. A shell creates the space; individual tenants then have to build kitchens, counters, dining rooms and the systems that make their businesses work. Dumont’s first-generation cafe finish-out is another step in that progression.
By June 2026, MySA reported openings at The Portico for Box St. All Day and Crepeccino Café & Crêperie. Its reporting also identified Makirrito, El Mercado and Black Swan Yoga as operating. Other spaces were still moving through development.
The tenant construction pipeline has included approximately 4,782 square feet for Box St., 2,444 square feet for El Mercado and an 8,416-square-foot registration for Bitelo Brazilian Steakhouse. Those filings describe the scale of the investment; they should not be read as proof that every announced restaurant is open.
Crepeccino already gives the development a dessert and cafe option. Dumont Creamery would broaden that mix with Indian-rooted ice cream and falooda alongside its drinks. The result is a wider range of reasons to visit, from a meal to an afternoon coffee or an after-dinner dessert.
What is planned for Dumont Creamery in San Antonio?
The new state registration, TABS2027001744, calls for a 1,400-square-foot first-generation cafe finish-out, including new interior partitions and mechanical, electrical and plumbing work. It lists Bexar Engineers & Associates as the design firm and a $150,000 estimated construction cost.
The filed schedule runs from October 30, 2026, through February 26, 2027. These are projected construction dates, not an announced opening date.
The surrounding Far West Side has continued attracting residential and commercial investment. At the Loop 1604 and Shaenfield corridor, The Portico is building a tenant mix intended to serve nearby neighborhoods as well as people traveling through the area. Dumont would add a relatively compact food business to that larger commercial development.
For San Antonio, Dumont Creamery connects a local restaurant space with a much longer journey: an Indian family’s ice cream business, a Texas launch into the American market and another new city on the expansion map. Its construction footprint is small, but its arrival would bring a distinctive new set of scoops and sips to The Portico.