A former dessert shop on Coit Road is preparing for a savory new chapter. The Gyro Rice & Spice Plano project would bring the North Texas Mediterranean restaurant to Coit Marketplace, replacing Crispy Cones in a 1,400-square-foot suite.
The planned restaurant at 9613 Coit Road, Suite 108 builds on an existing DFW presence, with gyros, rice bowls, falafel and sauce-topped fries at the center of the concept. Its next address also comes with a short but distinctive restaurant history: the same suite was the subject of a Crispy Cones buildout filing in 2025.
A North Texas brand adds another address
Gyro Rice & Spice already serves customers at 7722 Forest Lane in Dallas and 2220 State Highway 114, Suite 430, in Trophy Club. Both restaurants have location pages and hours on the company’s website.
Grapevine has also moved beyond the early filing stage. The company now posts a dedicated Grapevine menu, while a current ordering listing serves its address at 919 E. Northwest Highway, Suite 200. Plano would extend that regional presence.
The Grapevine construction record describes a 1,608-square-foot restaurant with an estimated $150,000 buildout. It names Flamur Ahmeti as tenant, Dardan Hoxha as the filer and Richardson-based Studio HMA as designer. Those same names recur in the Plano filing, connecting the two restaurant projects.
What Gyro Rice & Spice Plano would bring to the table
The restaurant’s own description centers on Mediterranean food, from pita sandwiches and loaded rice bowls to falafel. House-made sauces, including spicy garlic and ziki, are part of that identity.
Its current Dallas menu gives future Plano diners a useful introduction. The Gyro combines meat, lettuce, tomato and red onion in pita with ziki sauce. Rice bowls offer another route, including chicken, gyro meat or falafel with basmati rice and vegetables.
For something richer, the menu’s Chicken Spicy Bowl brings together chicken, mozzarella, onions, mushrooms and jalapeños with house sauce, accompanied by rice and a side salad. That is the current menu name for the spicy chicken dish featured with this story.
Feta Fries add a simpler side: French fries topped with feta and house sauce. These dishes describe the existing restaurants’ offerings; a final Plano opening menu has not been announced.
From Crispy Cones to a Mediterranean restaurant
The previous tenant is confirmed by Crispy Cones’ own Plano page, which lists the exact Suite 108 address and marks the location permanently closed.
A 2025 state filing for Crispy Cones recorded a 1,400-square-foot tenant improvement estimated at $254,000, with construction scheduled from July 31 through September 30 of that year. The new restaurant would reuse that same-size space roughly a year after the earlier project’s scheduled finish.
For Gyro Rice & Spice Plano, the scope is a restaurant-to-restaurant conversion. The new filing describes minor remodeling to accommodate the incoming tenant, with an estimated construction cost of $120,000. Coit Marketplace LP is listed as owner.
Another dining option along Coit Road
The address already sits among other restaurant uses. ZAZA Thai Coit lists its restaurant at 9613 Coit Road, Suite 103, placing Thai and Mediterranean options at the same street address once the new project opens.
Elsewhere along Coit Road in Frisco, TCM has covered Bikanervala’s plans for a sweets and vegetarian restaurant. That is a separate development farther along the corridor, adding another example of restaurant expansion on Coit.
The filed construction window for Gyro Rice & Spice Plano runs from October 26, 2026, through February 8, 2027. February 8 is an estimated construction-completion date, not an announced opening day. Diners still have an opening announcement to watch for as the former dessert-shop suite prepares for its next restaurant.