As of the first week of October, one of the six tenants Hacienda Crossings announced for 2026 is confirmed open. That is Sally Beauty. Two other restaurants have opened on the same stretch of Dublin Boulevard: El Dorado Modern Mexican & Cantina and Dish N Dash. They sit across the parking lot and lease from a different landlord, so the center does not count them as its tenants.
So most of what has changed at Hacienda Crossings this year is on that outer edge of the property. The bigger lineup inside the center is mostly still behind window clings. A Pleasanton Weekly report from July 7 put the scale of the change in plain terms. Counting the 2025 openings, the center was "poised to see turn-over in about a third of its storefronts over the course of two years." That turnover is real. Most of it is still on the way.
The Openings Are Across the Parking Lot
The two biggest restaurant changes on this part of Dublin Boulevard took over former chain sit-down spaces. El Dorado Modern Mexican & Cantina opened at 4814 Dublin Blvd., where Black Angus Steakhouse used to be. Patch covered the opening on June 29 and called it recently opened. Next door, at 4808 Dublin Blvd., Dish N Dash serves Middle Eastern food in the former Applebee's.
According to shopping center officials quoted by the Pleasanton Weekly, neither restaurant counts as a Hacienda Crossings tenant "due to a difference in lessor." Both still appear in the center's online directory. That detail explains why these two restaurants opened on their own schedule while the center's list moved on a different one. Two separate landlords fill two separate sets of spaces, and the one across the lot got there first.
Neither report named the owners or operators of either restaurant.
The One Confirmed Tenant Opening
Sally Beauty is the one center tenant with a confirmed opening. The City of Dublin's Dublin Digest newsletter welcomed it as "now open at Hacienda Crossings," selling hair color, hair care and nail supplies at 4930 Dublin Boulevard. Patch gave the store's footprint as 1,796 square feet. It was also the tenant the Pleasanton Weekly expected to open first, with a July target. No exact opening day has been published.
Four Storefronts Still Marked Coming Soon, and One Unaccounted For
The rest of this year's announced lineup is easier to follow when you set each first target date against the center's own listing in early October. The Hacienda Crossings store pages carry no dates. So the statuses below are what those pages showed on October 5, not dated announcements.
- Jamba. It was expected to reopen in July at the same site as its former location. The center's store page still says Coming Soon.
- 88 Cardhouse. In June, Patch reported a target of "late summer 2026" for this 5,200-square-foot trading card store. In July, the Pleasanton Weekly put the opening in August. A July 31 report in the Bay Area Telegraph noted that no exact grand-opening date had been announced. The listing still reads Coming Soon.
- Sana'a Café. Patch reported in June that the family-owned Yemeni coffee house hoped to open in early August. By July 7 the window had moved to "between September and October." The center lists it as Coming Soon.
- World Market. The 17,310-square-foot home décor and international foods store is taking over the former Any Mountain space with an October target. The Bay Area Telegraph's July 20 report said no exact date had been set. Its page still says Coming Soon.
- Miniso. The China-based variety retailer is planning to open in the former Party City, next door to the World Market space, "prior to the winter holidays." Miniso does not yet appear in the center's current directory, so its status is unclear.
Sana'a Café shows the slipping schedule most clearly. Its target moved from early August to a September-to-October window within two weeks of the first announcement. It is also the opening that would bring something new to the center's food mix. The Pleasanton Weekly reported that the café plans to serve Yemeni coffees and teas, specialty drinks, fresh pastries and desserts in the former Starbucks space. According to that report, Dublin would join an existing group of shops with a flagship in San Francisco and locations in Oakland, San Rafael, Sacramento, Lake Forest and Los Angeles.
One more name has been floated without confirmation. When the Pleasanton Weekly visited in July, Follow the Chicken had no window clings marking it as coming soon. The center's website did show it planned for a space next to Joe's Pho. No opening date has surfaced since then.
Last Year's Group Is the Template
The 2026 lineup is the second half of a two-year refill, and the first half is already open. The Pleasanton Weekly listed the 2025 additions as Activate Games and the restaurants Joe's Pho, Tequila Bar & Grill and Pearl Bay Manor.
That earlier group helps make sense of this year's choices. Activate Games is an activity tenant, and 88 Cardhouse is planned along similar lines. According to center officials, the Dublin store will host tournaments, events and community programming, as the company's Newark location already does. Marketing director Brandi Hardy described the 2026 group as a mix of "nationally recognized retail brands" and "locally owned businesses that foster community and create memorable experiences for our guests." Pair World Market and Miniso with Sana'a Café and 88 Cardhouse, and the lineup matches that description.
At the Other End of Dublin Boulevard, a Building Sits Dark
The same boulevard lost one of its longest-running restaurants this fall. Rigatoni's closed in early September at 7350 Dublin Blvd., in the brick-front building just before the Interstate 680 underpass, after 27 years. Owner Ray Bartolomucci Jr. told the Pleasanton Weekly that the group's senior team decided "to focus more in the near future on our other restaurants and to explore other business opportunities in the greater Bay Area."
The menu is still close by. The closing notice sent diners to Rigatoni's in Castro Valley and to Strizzi's in downtown Pleasanton, downtown Livermore and downtown Fremont. Bartolomucci said the Dublin employees have taken positions at the Strizzi's locations in Pleasanton and Livermore and at the Castro Valley Rigatoni's. The Pleasanton Weekly also noted that Strizzi's on Main Street in Pleasanton was set to mark its 37th anniversary in October.
The building's next use is still unknown. A September 7 Bay Area Telegraph report said there was no public word on a replacement, and nothing later has named one.
The Dates on the Calendar That Are Firm
The center's own events have firmer dates than its store openings. Two are posted for the rest of the season.
- Halloween Spooktacular, Sunday, October 25, 1 to 3 p.m., at the Entertainment Village near Ike's Love & Sandwiches.
- Holiday Celebration & Tree Lighting, Sunday, November 22, 6 to 8 p.m.
Neither event is billed as a grand opening for any of the new tenants, and no tenant has announced its own opening event. World Market's October target and Miniso's goal of opening before the holidays both land before the tree lighting, so that November evening is the next good point to check which Coming Soon signs have come down. The tenants' own websites and the Hacienda Crossings store directory are the best places to confirm before you make a trip for a specific store.
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