New Fort Worth-area restaurants to try now: Italian, Mediterranean, Texas barbecue
A standout Italian restaurant with Texas roots is open in Fort Worth, an old Mediterranean favorite returns and an Arlington barbecue stand gets a new home, all kicking off a busy season of dining openings.
Bocca Osteria Romana, a second location for a highly rated restaurant from Puerto Rico, is open down the side alley at 411 S. Main St.
The owners, the Salvatore family, started in McAllen, Texas, and spent summers with family members in Rome before opening one of the leading Italian restaurants in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The menu features osso buco, pasta Amatriciana, cacio e pepe and in many other styles, plus lasagna and gnocchi.
The restaurant is tentatively open Tuesdays through Sundays for lunch or brunch and dinner, but does not have the state permit to serve liquor yet.
Look for Emporium Pies and then wander down the side alley. Or park on Bryan Avenue and come in past Roots Coffeehouse; 817-386-4812, instagram.com/boccasanturce.
King Tut, Tres Amigos restaurants reopen
King Tut, a 32-year favorite on the Near Southside for shawarma and falafel, is open in its new location, 508 W. Rosedale St. in the Hemphill Crossing shopping center.
The new location is more of a take-out counter than the old restaurant on West Magnolia Avenue. But the sparsely decorated dining room has seven tables, not too different from the old front room.
It’s open for lunch and dinner weekdays and Saturdays. No alcohol is sold or allowed — another reason to order takeout; 817-335-3051 (not yet updated), kingtutegyptian.com.
Also new on the southside: Tres Amigos Tacos & Tequila is open, 909 W. Magnolia Ave.
That’s the revamped taco shop and bar in the former Yucatan Taco Stand, bringing back original recipes by the late Yucatan/Cabo/Pedro’s chef Paul WIllis.
It’s open for breakfast through dinner daily; 682-224-2554, tresamigostacosandtequila.com.
225⁰ BBQ opens in Arlington
A popular Arlington stop for birria tacos, brisket elote and barbecue, 225⁰ BBQ is reopening in its former downtown location, 601 E. Main St.
The Ramirez family’s barbecue venture has taken them on wheels from downtown to a suburbab food truck park and back again.
This time, instead of serving the barbecue inside a sports bar, 225⁰ BBQ is taking it over as a restaurant.
Look for it to open either Sept. 5 or Sept. 11 and serve lunch and dinner Thursdays through Sundays; 214-433-0685, instagram.com/225bbq.
Pacific Table is open in Southlake
A new location of Pacific Table, chef Graham Elliot’s West Coast-themed restaurant, is open at 2221 E. Southlake Blvd. in Southlake.
The company is planning a Cowboy Prime steakhouse and an il Capo Italian restaurant at 9300 Team Ranch Road.
More future openings
Among the dozens of new restaurants under construction or announced:
▪Belle Gente, 575 Taylor St.
▪Big Chicken by Shaquille O’Neal, open now at 9755 North Freeway.
▪Bocado, 570 Throckmorton St., will be the second location for a Dallas restaurant.
▪ Broadway 10 Bar & Chophouse, an Oklahoma CIty restaurant, will open at 969 Commerce St. inside the Deco apartment tower.
▪The Chumley House, 3230 Camp Bowie Blvd., will be new from Dallas’ Mister Charles.
▪ Dos Mares, 3260 W. Seventh St., will be a new seafood restaurant owned by neighbor Don Artemio Mexican Heritage.
▪ Fort Redemption, 5724 Locke Ave., will be new from food truck operator Tony Chaudhry.
▪Fred’s Texas Cafe, 100 N. Texas St., Crowley, will be the restaurant’s third location.
▪Hideaway Pizza, from an Oklahoma company, will be at 9800 North Freeway.
▪Holy Cue, 2420 Forest Park Blvd., from the owners of Enchiladas Ole.
▪La Cabrona, 2973 Crockett St.,opening in mid-September from the owners of Terra Mediterranean Grill, opening in November across the street at 2932 Crockett St.
▪La La Land Kind Cafe, coming at 5733 Camp Bowie Blvd.
▪ Los Vaqueros, 2629 N. Main St., continues until its new location opens later in September at 2513 Rodeo Plaza.
▪ The Mont, 3729 Saint Amand Circle, will be a new upscale restaurant and bar owned by Cousin’s Bar-B-Q.
▪ The Original Mexican Eats Cafe, 4735 Camp Bowie Blvd., is planned as a small counter-service stand and drive-thru on the former parking lot of the Original. The large restaurant continues at 1400 N. Main St,
▪ Our Place Too, a plate-lunch cafe from Burleson opening at 326 E. Main St., Crowley.
▪ A new restaurant coming in Patch Cafe, the former set for TV’s “Landman” series at 9840 Camp Bowie West Blvd.
▪ Rex’s Bar and Grill, a sports grill and bar from Ol’ South Pancake House owner Rex Benson and consulting chef Brian Olenjack, coming at 1505 S. University Drive.
▪ The Seeker, new from renowned Dallas chef Stephan Pyles, will open at 809 East Road, Stephenville.
▪ Sour Boule bakery-cafe, 3801 Southwest Blvd., will move and expand from next door.
▪ Taste Project, the pay-what-you-can charity restaurant where you “pay it forward” fot others, is close to opening in Arlington at 200 N. Center St.
▪Terry Black’s Barbecue, under construction and expected to open by winter at 2926 W. Seventh St.
▪ A new Tim Love concept, yet unnamed, in a former import grocery at 4424 White Settlement Road.
▪Whiskey Cake, 2849 Heritage Trace Parkway.
▪ Winslow’s, 4101 Camp Bowie Blvd., will reopen in late September after a top-to-bottom remodeling and new decor.
