Downtown Prosper's Restaurant 1902 Brings a New Kitchen and a Hidden Speakeasy to Broadway Street

A New Table on Broadway

The address is 209 W. Broadway St., a stretch of downtown Prosper that has been filling in steadily as the town grows north. This summer, that block gains something it has not had before: a full-service restaurant named 1902, with a chef at the helm and, if you know where to look, a speakeasy tucked away upstairs.

The restaurant is called 1902, and Chef Amy DiBiase is running the kitchen. Above the dining room sits Mary Ann’s Speakeasy, a separate upstairs space that adds a distinct layer to what will be available on that corner of Broadway.

Details on the full menu and opening date are still being finalized, but the project is confirmed for summer 2026, putting it squarely in the middle of a busy season for downtown Prosper.

Why This Address Matters

For a town that has spent the better part of a decade managing rapid residential growth, the question of what downtown Prosper becomes has never been a small one. Broadway Street is the spine of that effort — a short corridor where locally rooted businesses, boutiques, and gathering places are expected to give Prosper something distinct from the chain-heavy retail that lines Preston Road and US-380.

A restaurant with a named chef and a concept that includes a speakeasy is exactly the kind of anchor that corridor is built around. It is not a franchise dropping into a strip center. It is a specific vision for a specific address, and that distinction is not lost on regulars who have watched downtown evolve.

The 1902 name itself carries a kind of historical weight, even if the story behind it has not been formally explained yet. For a community that incorporated in 1914, names reaching back into that era tend to resonate.

Chef Amy DiBiase and the Kitchen

DiBiase’s involvement signals that 1902 is being built around culinary identity rather than concept alone. When a restaurant puts a named chef at the center of its public announcement before it has even opened, it is making a statement about what kind of place it intends to be. The kitchen is the draw, not just the room.

No menu details have been confirmed yet, so the specific direction of the cooking remains to be seen. What is confirmed is that DiBiase is heading it, and that is the kind of specific, locatable fact that gives a new restaurant its initial credibility before a single dish is served.

Mary Ann’s Speakeasy Upstairs

The speakeasy concept is worth pausing on. Prosper is not a city with a long history of late-night entertainment venues. The town’s growth has been largely residential and family-oriented, and downtown has followed that character — daytime boutiques, coffee, weekend events.

Mary Ann’s Speakeasy, sitting above the 1902 dining room, suggests the owners are reading a different appetite in the community. There is a contingent of Prosper residents who have grown alongside the town — who were here when it was smaller and who are now looking for something to do on a Friday night that does not require a drive to Frisco or McKinney. An upstairs speakeasy on Broadway Street is a direct answer to that.

The name Mary Ann’s adds a personal touch that speakeasy-style bars often lean into — the sense that you are being let in on something, that the place has a story. Whether that story connects to local history or is simply atmospheric branding will become clear once the doors open.

Downtown Prosper This Summer

Restaurant 1902 is arriving during one of the more active summers downtown has seen. The Town of Prosper has a full calendar of community programming running through August, and the Prosper Chamber of Commerce has events nearly every week drawing residents into the business district. On July 18, Prosper on Tap sends a self-guided tasting crowd through downtown boutiques starting at noon — exactly the kind of foot traffic that benefits new businesses trying to build awareness.

Opening into that environment gives 1902 a reasonable runway. The people who will become its regulars are already showing up downtown for other reasons. The restaurant’s job is to give them a reason to stay — or to come back on a night when there is no organized event pulling them in.

What to Watch For

The confirmed opening window is summer 2026, which means the doors could come in the coming weeks. Anyone with a specific interest in the opening should watch for announcements directly from the restaurant, since the timeline has not been pinned to a single date in available information.

For now, the address at 209 W. Broadway St. is one to keep in mind. Downtown Prosper has been building toward something for a while. A kitchen with a named chef and a speakeasy upstairs is not a small addition to that effort.