286 Noodle House is expanding from Garland to Mansfield, bringing its Vietnamese menu to Shops at Stillwater II on East Broad Street. The planned 3,000-square-foot restaurant at 2201 E. Broad St., Suite 131, would offer another DFW address for noodle soups, grilled-meat rice plates and traditional family dishes.
For diners unfamiliar with the name, this is an existing restaurant extending its reach. Its Garland location already serves a menu that moves from steaming bowls of pho to braised fish, sweet-and-sour soup and vegetables stir-fried with garlic.
What 286 Noodle House serves beyond pho
Pho is an easy place to begin. The restaurant’s current official menu includes filet mignon, chicken and seafood versions, along with a combination bowl featuring beef short ribs. Those choices give diners several ways into the familiar pairing of noodles and broth.
But the noodle selection keeps going. Hủ tiếu offers rice-noodle combinations with shrimp, pork or seafood, while mì provides an egg-noodle option. Bánh canh takes a different direction, using thick tapioca noodles in soups with toppings such as sliced pork and shrimp.
For someone who usually orders the same pho bowl, that variety offers a reason to explore. The noodles change the texture of the meal, and a pork-and-shrimp soup presents a different combination from the beef-centered options.
The menu also includes vermicelli dishes and broken-rice plates. Grilled pork and pork chops anchor several rice combinations, offering a meal built around meat and rice instead of broth. Egg rolls and shrimp-and-pork spring rolls provide smaller starters.
Traditional dishes give the menu another dimension
One of 286 Noodle House’s strongest distinctions sits in its traditional Vietnamese section. Cá kho tộ, listed as braised catfish, and canh chua, a sweet-and-sour soup with catfish or shrimp, extend the choices beyond individual noodle bowls.
Caramelized shrimp and garlic-stir-fried greens add other options. These dishes make the restaurant relevant for a family meal as well as a quick bowl of soup, with different preparations to put together across the table.
That breadth is the point of the menu: diners can stay with pho, choose a grilled-meat rice plate or explore a more traditional combination. The existing Garland menu provides the guide; the Mansfield opening menu has not yet been announced.
286 Noodle House grows from Garland
The restaurant’s own website identifies its operating location at 3347 W. Walnut St., Suite 105, in Garland. The Mansfield project would carry that established Vietnamese restaurant identity into another part of the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
The Garland storefront helps make the expansion tangible. Mansfield is gaining a planned location of a restaurant diners can already visit, rather than a concept known only through a construction registration.
The Mansfield filing names CHEM Restaurant LLC and identifies Nick Nguyen as tenant contact. Those records establish the local project connection without establishing his ownership role in the Garland operation.
A place at Shops at Stillwater II
Blazing Hospitality’s leasing material already names 286 Noodle House at Shops at Stillwater II. That provides property-side support for the restaurant plans beyond the new state filing.
The leasing plan also identifies Hibachi Express, Crispy Cones and Claw City among the development’s concepts. Together, they show a dining and retail lineup taking shape along East Broad Street, without implying that every listed business is already open.
The filing identifies SP Mansfield Property Fund LLC as property owner and Smit Shah as its contact. Separate records document multi-tenant shell construction at the address, including an approximately 11,163-square-foot Building B.
That history makes the nature of this project clear: 286 Noodle House plans an individual restaurant buildout within the center. It is not a separate freestanding restaurant building.
TCM recently covered Shake Shack Mansfield at 2431 E. Broad St., another project within the broader Shah and Broad Street development picture. The two restaurants occupy separate addresses; Shake Shack is useful corridor context, not a claimed next-door neighbor.
What comes next for 286 Noodle House
The state registration, TABS2027002165, lists a $500,000 estimate for the 3,000-square-foot buildout and names MJ Design Group as designer. Although its category says new construction, the scope and suite address identify the work as a restaurant buildout.
The filing currently lists construction from October 1, 2026, through March 1, 2028. Those dates are project estimates and do not establish when the restaurant will open.
For Mansfield diners, the next useful milestone is a confirmed opening announcement. For now, 286 Noodle House has a named place at Shops at Stillwater II, with a menu that promises more to explore than a single style of noodle soup.