Cajun sandwich restaurant The PoBoy Shop closed in Dallas’ Preston Center in late December 2025.
Dallas restaurateur Evan Meagher confirmed in early January 2026 the “economic pressures” were too tough to keep the business going.
“While we took great pride in offering high-quality, in-house meats, the rising costs required to maintain that standard ultimately made the model unsustainable,” Meagher said in a statement. He was raised in Louisiana, the home of the po’boy sandwich.
The news comes after an unaffiliated sandwich shop, New York Sub, announced it may be closing in 2026 due to financial challenges as well. The year end brought a rush of other closures, including Sprinkles cupcakes and High Fives sports bar. Razzoo’s was scooped up out of bankruptcy in late 2025 by the parent company of D-FW Tex-Mex chain Mi Cocina.
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The casual PoBoy Shop was known for its muffuletta, a sandwich loaded with ham, bologna, salami, provolone and giardiniera, on a circular bun. The order-at-the-counter shop also sold roast beef sandwiches, fried shrimp po’boys and bags of Zapp’s chips.
The PoBoy Shop was created after Meagher opened Evan’s Meat Market in Highland Park, a shop intended to sell butchered meat and grab-and-go sides to the neighborhood. Po’boys were but a part of Evan’s menu, but the owner and chef found that his Louisiana-born sandwiches earned a following of their own. Meagher opened The PoBoy Shop in July 2025 to focus solely on sandwiches, and Evan’s Meat Market closed the next month in August 2025.
The PoBoy Shop lasted less than six months — sad news for the Park Cities neighbors and Dallas businesspeople who enjoyed sandwiches with house-cured meat, which can be hard to find.
The company paid rent at a separate facility where the meat was cured. After Evan’s Meat Market closed, that commissary kitchen supported just one store. To make the business model work, Meagher would have needed to open multiple stores to justify the separate facility.
He wasn’t willing to outsource the cured meat, which Meagher believed was the difference-maker at The PoBoy Shop.
This restaurant closure is one example of how small businessowners are struggling to make the math work in 2026.
The PoBoy Shop was 8421 Westchester Dr., Dallas. It closed after Christmas 2025.