For a town that added roughly a thousand new residents a month over the past year, Anna keeps its dining life remarkably concentrated. There is no single mega-mall pulling everyone to one exit. Instead, the places worth knowing sit along three short stretches of road: North Powell Parkway through the old town center, West 4th Street a block off it, and West White Street heading out toward the highway. Learn those three corridors and you have essentially learned where Anna eats.
That will change soon — a Kroger Marketplace and a wave of national tenants are under construction out at the US-75 interchange — but for right now, the good stuff is downtown and along the arterials. Here is how it breaks down.
Downtown: North Powell Parkway and West 4th Street
North Powell Parkway is State Highway 5 where it runs through the historic core, and it holds the densest run of independent restaurants in the city. Within a few blocks you can eat your way through most of Anna’s flavors.
Roma’s Italian Bistro at 111 N Powell Pkwy handles the sit-down Italian end of things. A block up the same road, El Tepeyac Mexican Grill at 403 N Powell Pkwy covers Mexican, and it is the kind of neighborhood spot whose menu turns over often enough that regulars have opinions about it. For something older-school American, Spurlock’s Malt Shop at 504 N Powell Pkwy leans into burgers and hand-made malts and shakes — a genuinely useful thing to have within reach on a hot afternoon.
Coffee downtown comes with a bit of a story. Breaking Free Coffee & Bakery at 501 N Powell Pkwy is a founder-run coffee shop and bakery, and right beside it at 505 N Powell Pkwy is Grace Place Coffee Shop, which runs on a donation-based model rather than a standard menu of prices — closer to a community project than a cash register. Having two very different coffee philosophies within a few doors of each other is the kind of small detail that tells you a downtown is being cared for rather than just occupied.
One street over on West 4th, two more anchors hold down the block. Kalamaki Greek Eatery at 121 W 4th St brings gyros and souvlaki to a part of Collin County where Greek food is not exactly on every corner, and Crow’s Country Cafe at 113 W 4th St does the family American and country-cooking job that every small Texas town seems to need at least one of. And just off the main drag at 106 Houston St, Gar Hole is the local bar and grill with live music — the closest thing downtown Anna has to a proper night-out room.
If you want to understand the pull of the old center, spend a Saturday morning walking it. Roma’s, El Tepeyac, Spurlock’s, the two coffee shops, Kalamaki, Crow’s, and Gar Hole are all within a walkable few-block square. For a town that is otherwise defined by its subdivisions and its highway exits, that little cluster is the real Anna.
The White Street corridor: FM 455
Head west on White Street — that is FM 455 — and the pattern shifts from historic storefronts to more spread-out, drive-to spots.
Salsa Tex Mex at 2530 W White St is the Tex-Mex option out on this side of town, and Sunview Cafe at 2010 W White St, Suite 180, covers the breakfast-brunch-lunch daypart that downtown does not quite reach — the sort of place you end up at with a group after church or before a Saturday of errands.
That errand run usually ends at Brookshire’s Food & Pharmacy at 1325 W White St, Anna’s full grocery store and pharmacy, open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Brookshire’s is worth naming in a dining guide because in a town growing this fast, it functions as more than a grocery run — it is the anchor a lot of the White Street corridor organizes itself around, and it sits within a short walk of Natural Springs Park if you want to combine a shopping trip with a quiet loop by the pond.
Out toward the highway
Closer to the US-75 side of town, the offerings tilt toward familiar names built for a commuter town. Einstein Bros. Bagels at 601 S Ferguson Parkway is the reliable bagel-and-coffee stop for people getting on the highway in the morning — a chain, yes, but a genuinely useful one when your day starts with a drive south.
What’s coming to the interchange
The biggest change to Anna’s shopping map is not open yet, but it is worth knowing about because it will reshape where people spend money here. At Rosamond Parkway and U.S. 75 — spanning both the northeast and southeast corners of the interchange — developers Big V Property Group and The Seitz Group are building Rosamond Crossing, an open-air retail center anchored by a Kroger Marketplace. The first phase runs about 175,300 square feet, with a full buildout envisioned well north of that over time. Named tenants so far include the Kroger Marketplace itself along with Bank of America, Chase, Jimmy John’s, and McDonald’s.
Vertical construction is slated to get underway in 2026, with the first phase targeted to open in 2027. Kroger alone is expected to bring several hundred jobs. None of it is operating today, so treat it as a preview rather than a destination — but it is the clearest sign that Anna’s dining and shopping are about to stop being quite so concentrated downtown.
The short version
Until the highway center opens, the reliable move is simple. For a sit-down dinner or a downtown coffee, aim for the North Powell Parkway and West 4th Street blocks, where Roma’s, El Tepeyac, Kalamaki, Crow’s, Spurlock’s, Gar Hole, and the two coffee shops sit within a few minutes’ walk of one another. For breakfast, Tex-Mex, or a grocery run, the White Street corridor with Sunview Cafe, Salsa Tex Mex, and Brookshire’s does the job. And keep an eye on the Rosamond Parkway interchange, where the next chapter of Anna retail is already going vertical.
