Burger Schmurger is heading north. Founder Dave Culwell and co-owner Phil Schanbaum are opening a second location at Preston Road and Forest Lane, near Preston Hollow, with spring 2027 as the target. The exact address and opening date haven’t been announced yet.
This will be the first time the smashburger shop has set up outside East Dallas. The original at 718 N. Buckner Blvd., Suite 100 opened in the spring of 2025 in the former BarNone space near White Rock Lake, and it has drawn a line most nights since.
Culwell noticed who was standing in it. “When we kept seeing the same faces drive in from the Preston Hollow area week after week, we knew we owed it to them to get a little closer,” he said…