Chip and Joanna Gaines Expand Their Restaurant Menu to Serve Dinner — See the 'Personal' Dishes (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Joanna and Chip Gaines will start serving dinner at Magnolia Table (right).Photo:Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty; Magnolia

Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty; Magnolia

Guests can now pull up a chair for dinner atChipandJoanna Gaines' Magnolia Table.TheMagnolia co-founderswill start serving dinner at theirWaco, Texas restauranton Sept. 20. The restaurant, located in theFixer Upperstars' hometown, previously offered only brunch and lunch.All the dinner dishes come from Joanna’s three cookbooks —Magnolia TableVolume 1,Volume 2, andVolume 3— and an accompanying “personal story,” according to a release.Appetizers include fried onion stacks, sausage-stuffed mushrooms, and honey butter biscuit bites — Joanna claims it’s “impossible to eat only one.“Shareables, soups, and salads range from straightforward recipes, like a wedge salad, to twists on classics, like brown butter and gruyere mashed potatoes. Another fun version of a classic is Joanna’s stuffed sweet potato, a whole potato with brown sugar butter and torched marshmallow.Wedge salad, steak frites and macaroni and cheese are a few of the new dinner options at Magnolia Table.Magnolia“It feels like cheating to say my favorite vegetable is a sweet potato, but a single bite of this recipe only reminds me how true that is,” Joanna says of the dish.Orange-glazed salmon and steak frites are two of several main dish options, but Joanna’s vegetarian-friendly grilled portobello is a menu highlight for her.“I’m not always in the mood for red meat,” explains the mother of five, who shares sonsDrake, 19,Duke, 16,Crew,6, and daughtersElla, 17, andEmmie, 14, with Chip. “So these portobellos are always a nice substitute when I’m craving a steak.“During Magnolia Table’s new dinner seating, seasonal drinks and desserts are also available.A peanut butter parfait is available on the dessert menu at Magnolia Table.MagnoliaJoanna and Chip, who celebrated the 20th anniversary of their Magnolia brand andtheir 20th wedding anniversaryin 2023,opened up Magnolia Table restaurantin 2018.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.The spot opened with a breakfast-focused menu because that was Chip’s favorite meal.“I’ve always been a breakfast connoisseur,” he toldSouthern Living. “I always do a heavy, bigger breakfast, but Jo is the exact opposite. She was kind enough to come with me on this one, and we are going to do up a breakfast joint here in town.”

Guests can now pull up a chair for dinner atChipandJoanna Gaines' Magnolia Table.

TheMagnolia co-founderswill start serving dinner at theirWaco, Texas restauranton Sept. 20. The restaurant, located in theFixer Upperstars' hometown, previously offered only brunch and lunch.

All the dinner dishes come from Joanna’s three cookbooks —Magnolia TableVolume 1,Volume 2, andVolume 3— and an accompanying “personal story,” according to a release.

Appetizers include fried onion stacks, sausage-stuffed mushrooms, and honey butter biscuit bites — Joanna claims it’s “impossible to eat only one.”

Shareables, soups, and salads range from straightforward recipes, like a wedge salad, to twists on classics, like brown butter and gruyere mashed potatoes. Another fun version of a classic is Joanna’s stuffed sweet potato, a whole potato with brown sugar butter and torched marshmallow.

Wedge salad, steak frites and macaroni and cheese are a few of the new dinner options at Magnolia Table.Magnolia

Magnolia

“It feels like cheating to say my favorite vegetable is a sweet potato, but a single bite of this recipe only reminds me how true that is,” Joanna says of the dish.

Orange-glazed salmon and steak frites are two of several main dish options, but Joanna’s vegetarian-friendly grilled portobello is a menu highlight for her.

“I’m not always in the mood for red meat,” explains the mother of five, who shares sonsDrake, 19,Duke, 16,Crew,6, and daughtersElla, 17, andEmmie, 14, with Chip. “So these portobellos are always a nice substitute when I’m craving a steak.”

During Magnolia Table’s new dinner seating, seasonal drinks and desserts are also available.

A peanut butter parfait is available on the dessert menu at Magnolia Table.Magnolia

Joanna and Chip, who celebrated the 20th anniversary of their Magnolia brand andtheir 20th wedding anniversaryin 2023,opened up Magnolia Table restaurantin 2018.

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

The spot opened with a breakfast-focused menu because that was Chip’s favorite meal.

“I’ve always been a breakfast connoisseur,” he toldSouthern Living. “I always do a heavy, bigger breakfast, but Jo is the exact opposite. She was kind enough to come with me on this one, and we are going to do up a breakfast joint here in town.”

source: people.com