Award-winning empanadas are coming to McKinney via a new spot called Stefania’s Empanadas Argentina Café, opening in August on the border of McKinney and Frisco in a former doughnut shop at 1800 S. Independence Pkwy. #1100.
The cafe is from Stefania DiStefano, born in Baltimore to Argentinian parents and Italian grandparents, with a lifelong love for good food and cooking. “I always wanted to be by my mom and my nonnas, cooking,” she says.
She graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management, and began working in the hospitality industry from a young age — first in management, then later taking culinary classes. She began baking empanadas while working at the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore hotel, which had temporarily closed during COVID…