"Dash is the ultimate neighborhood hang to grab a morning coffee, catch up over lunch or share a bottle of wine at sunset and then take one home with you," Brian Raab said in a press release quoted by Phoenix New Times. Raab co-founded Broken Plate Hospitality. With chef Matt Carter, he already runs Zinc, Fat Ox and The Mission. Their next opening is a café and market at 9619 N. Hayden Road in McCormick Ranch.
Dash will be the next in a series of changes this year. Since July, several restaurant spaces on Hayden Road have changed hands. Almost no new buildings went up. Most of the newcomers are second locations or new concepts from operators with restaurants elsewhere in the Valley. The rooms and parking lots stayed the same while the businesses inside them changed.
The 2026 changes, address by address
Most of this year's changes happened in a few hundred address numbers, between the 8100 and 8300 blocks of N. Hayden Road. Dash is the one still to come.
| Address | What changed or is coming | When |
|---|---|---|
| 8140 N. Hayden Rd. | Bombay House opened its second location | July 2026 |
| 8260 Hayden Rd., #A-100 | Saint Urban closed for regular dining and became Saint Urban Private Dining Room | September 28, 2026 |
| 8300 N. Hayden Rd. | Vecina opened in the former Z'Tejas space | September 2026 |
| 9619 N. Hayden Rd., #101 | Dash, from the team behind Zinc, Fat Ox and The Mission | Expected November 2026 |
PHOENIX magazine's July roundup listed Bombay House as a new Scottsdale location of a Tempe Indian restaurant, with a lunch and dinner buffet. The magazine's September roundup reported that Vecina had opened at 8300 N. Hayden in the space Z'Tejas used to fill. Saint Urban's switch to private dining took effect September 28, according to a statement reported by Phoenix New Times.
The same July roundup also reported that Campo Italian Bistro & Bar in McCormick Ranch closed after five years. Its address wasn't listed, so it isn't in the table above. It still counts as another McCormick Ranch dining room that changed this summer.
Second locations of restaurants that already work
The arrivals have one thing in common. Each comes from a business that already succeeded somewhere else in metro Phoenix.
Bombay House started in Tempe. The Hayden Road restaurant is its second.
Vecina is the bigger example. PHOENIX magazine called it an "Arcadia favorite" and described the McCormick Ranch location as "a second, much larger location." It has a lakeside patio and serves Modern-Latin food from chef James Fox. In Arcadia, Vecina became known as a neighborhood restaurant. In McCormick Ranch it moved into a larger room in an existing building, a space the area already knew as Z'Tejas.
Dash differs a little. It's a new concept, so there's no first location to copy. But the team has already proven itself. New Times reports that Carter and Raab plan to stock the Dash market with dishes from their other restaurants: Zinc's mac-and-cheese, Fat Ox's polenta, and chips and guacamole from The Mission. Their existing menus will literally fill some of the shelves.
The pattern is consistent. Operators with a track record are choosing Hayden Road in McCormick Ranch for their next room. They are moving into spaces that previous restaurants already built out.
One room kept its owner and changed its role
The space at 8260 Hayden Road shows how these rooms get reused. Saint Urban opened there in November 2024, in the room Rockefeller used until July 2024, according to Mouth by Southwest. That's two restaurant concepts in the same space within two years.
Instead of going dark, the room has a new use. Saint Urban comes from chef and restaurateur Christopher Collins and his group, Common Ground Culinary. Phoenix New Times reports that the group's statement described the space as "Saint Urban Private Dining Room, available for holiday parties, memorable events and life's most important moments." Guests who had reservations were rebooked at the group's other Valley restaurants. Those include The Macintosh, Collins Brothers Public House, Grassroots Kitchen & Tap, Wally's American Gastropub, Sweet Provisions and The Neighborly. Mouth by Southwest reports that the private room is taking bookings through the end of 2026 and into 2027.
Since September 28, that changes what's available nearby. The room no longer seats walk-in diners. Instead it's an event room a short drive from most of McCormick Ranch, and it's open for bookings as holiday-party season begins.
Dash brings the same pattern to Mountain View
Dash sits farther north on the corridor, at 9619 N. Hayden near Mountain View Road. New Times reports a November opening. Dash's own site still says "Coming Fall 2026," and no hours have been posted, so for now November is the expected month rather than a confirmed date.
Here's what has been announced:
- Morning: coffee and pastries, with pastry chef Lisa Graf on the team
- Midday: sandwiches and salads
- Evening: Roman-style pizza, charcoal chicken and soft serve
- Bar: beer and wine at opening, with batched cocktails planned later, plus house-made sodas including a mushroom-infused cola, a root beer and a ginger-and-grapefruit soda
- To go: online ordering and a market with items from the Dash menu and the partners' other restaurants
New Times reports that Carter and Raab picture Dash as a place where people bring their kids, and where those kids come back as adults. Bombay House and Vecina are lunch and dinner restaurants. Dash fills a different gap. It's built for every part of the day and for take-home food, which nothing else on this list of 2026 changes offers.
The median is the next thing to change
The restaurant changes happened behind the curb. The McCormick Ranch Property Owners' Association has an approved plan to rework the street itself. Its plan for Hayden Road covers about 1.25 miles, from Indian Bend Road to Via de Ventura. The association says it got the permit in the fourth quarter of 2025, after about two years of design and review.
The approved plant schedule calls for:
- 144 new trees, a mix of mulga, willow acacia, smoothie cascalote, fruitless olive, blue palo verde, red push pistache and Joan Lionetti live oak
- 359 shrubs, 280 accent plants and 703 groundcover plants
- 10 large boulders and about 151,931 square feet of decomposed granite
Turf does shrink, but most of it stays. The plan keeps 247,975 square feet of turf out of the roughly 303,669 square feet in the project area now, about 82%. MRPOA describes the work as part of a tree succession and shade canopy plan. The idea is to plant younger trees now, so shade is already growing before older trees decline.
The association hasn't published a construction start date, phases or a lane-closure schedule. For now the project is approved and permitted, but there's no public timeline.
The approach matches what happened with the restaurants. The plan keeps most of what's there, replacing what has run its course, and planting what comes next in the same places. The storefronts went through the same process in 2026: Z'Tejas became Vecina, Rockefeller became Saint Urban and then a private dining room, and a Tempe buffet opened its second room at 8140.
The business mix along a main road like Hayden can shape what local buyers notice. If you're thinking about how the corridor's next stage might affect a home sale or purchase in McCormick Ranch, the Matheson Real Estate Team can walk you through it street by street. Request a Private Consultation.
