Coral Springs New Restaurants and Fall Events for 2026
August 6, 2026
August 6, 2026
If you have lived in Coral Springs for more than a season or two, you have probably noticed that the city's social map has always been anchored by a small number of places. The Walk. Sawgrass Center. The stretch of University Drive near the IceDen. The Center for the Arts. What is different this August is that three of those four anchors are in the middle of a real turnover at the same time, and the fourth is on its predictable off-season pause. If you plan around that, the next ninety days have more to offer than a typical late-summer stretch in South Florida usually promises.
This is not a "best of" list. It is a read on which corner of the city is doing what right now, so you can spend a Saturday without defaulting to the same three places you always end up at.
The former Angelo Elia Pizza, Bar & Tapas space at 5920 Coral Ridge Drive sat as a hole in the Sawgrass Center rotation for the better part of a year. As of this week it is open again, under a new name and a new operator. Ember & Vine, a new all-day dining concept from P Hospitality Management, opened in Coral Springs on August 3, 2026. The group behind it is not new to the neighborhood. Ember & Vine is P Hospitality Management's third Broward County restaurant, following Eddie & Vinny's Coastal Italian and Dear Olivia; the company also operates Prezzo Boca Raton and Amante's in Deerfield Beach.
The concept is worth understanding before you walk in, because it is genuinely different from what was there before. The team is bringing a Napa Valley-inspired, hearth-driven restaurant rooted in wine country rituals, leaning into fire-kissed cooking, thoughtful pours, and that cozy yet polished neighborhood energy, slated to take over the former Angelo Elia Pizza, Bar & Tapas space. Owners Eddie and Christina Pozzuoli have said they wanted the room to work as a routine rather than a special occasion:
"We want Ember & Vine to become part of people's routines – the place for morning coffee, business lunches, celebrations, date nights, and everything in between."
Two practical notes for the first week. Guests visiting between Aug. 3 and Aug. 9 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. will receive a complimentary house cold brew or drip coffee, with beans roasted locally by 360F Roasters, a Coral Springs-based roastery. If you have not tried 360F before, this is the easiest introduction. And the space has been completely refreshed with updated finishes, new design elements, enhanced bar and dining areas, and a redesigned layout, featuring multiple dining experiences under one roof including a full-service dining room, bar area, flexible group seating, and spaces for private events. In other words, do not expect the old Angelo Elia layout in your head to match what you walk into.
The Ember & Vine opening is the loudest one, but it is not the only shift on the food map. The University Drive spine has been the quieter story for most of 2026.
The most established of the recent additions is on the Panthers-adjacent stretch. Flora's Italian Eatery, operated by the family behind Flora Fine Foods, opened across from the Florida Panthers IceDen, offering a unique mix of food stations, market goods, and an upstairs bar and kitchen. The format is the interesting part. It is not a sit-down Italian restaurant in the traditional Coral Springs sense. It is closer to a market where you can pick up pantry items on the way home and also sit down for a meal, which is a format the city has not really had before.
Still on the way, with no confirmed opening date yet: NYC Halal Eats, a franchise known for its New York City-inspired dishes, is opening its first Florida location on University Drive, bringing classic platters, gyros, Philly cheesesteaks, and more to town, with interiors featuring bold designs and graffiti-inspired art. Worth keeping on the radar if you have kids who come home from college talking about the halal cart circuit up north.
The Cornerstone development is the piece of the puzzle that has been slower to fill in, and it is the reason "downtown Coral Springs" still feels like a place under construction rather than a destination. That is changing, in one specific way. Big Whiskey's, an American restaurant originating in Missouri and known for its wide whiskey selection and classic comfort dishes, will join the downtown Coral Springs Cornerstone development, marking the second of three planned Big Whiskey's in South Florida, though an exact opening date has not yet been shared.
If you have been waiting to see whether Cornerstone would actually become a nighttime destination or stay a daytime civic corridor, a whiskey-forward American concept is a signal about where the developer thinks the demand is. It is not the only tenant that will matter, but it is a directional one.
Here is the part of the year that catches people. If your default answer to "what should we do Wednesday night" has been The Walk for the last few years, that answer does not work in August. The Walk's 2026 "Walk on Wednesday" concert series ran every Wednesday from Jan. 14 through April 29, with concerts held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the courtyard at 2750 N. University Drive. It is a winter and spring program, not a summer one, and it will not restart until January. The rotating lineup, when it returns, tends to include The Ruminators, Beverly Lewis & the MiXX, The Horizons Trio, The BeachDogs, and Dr K and the CoPays. Worth marking on the calendar for winter, not this weekend.
The live-entertainment center of gravity between now and Thanksgiving is the Coral Springs Center for the Arts. A few dates that are already on sale and worth planning around:
If you have out-of-town family visiting in October, the Trick Daddy weekend is the one to know about, because it is effectively two nights of programming in the same corridor.
A couple of longer-standing routines are coming back that new residents may not have caught yet. The Coral Springs Farmers' Market is one of them. Held at 9551 West Sample Road, the market operates on select Sundays from October through April, offering a wide array of fresh produce, artisanal foods, and unique crafts, with over 40 vendors showcasing organic fruits and vegetables, international cheeses, baked goods, plants, jewelry, and art. If you have been buying produce at Publix all summer because everything else felt closed, October is when that changes.
And if you want a shorter list to keep in your phone, the next ninety days basically look like this:
The reason to think about these anchors together, rather than as a scattered list of openings, is that Coral Springs' identity has always been shaped by which corner of the city is doing the heavy lifting at any given moment. Sawgrass Center has been quiet, and it is now not. The Walk is on pause, and the Center for the Arts is picking up the slack. Cornerstone is still forming, and the tenants that commit in the next year will decide whether it becomes a nighttime address or stays a daytime one. If you are a resident, the practical takeaway is that your weekend template can rotate more than it used to, and the interesting places to be are not the same ones they were six months ago.
If you are thinking about how any of this affects a move within Coral Springs, or you are helping family decide which corridor of the city fits their routine, the team at Stacy Plean is happy to talk it through. Schedule a consultation whenever the timing is right.
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