Fort Worth has been patient. Dallas has had Uchi on Maple Avenue for years, Plano got Uchiko, and Loro set up shop in East Dallas and Addison. Now the group behind all of them is finally heading west.
Hai Hospitality, the Austin company founded by James Beard Award-winning chef Tyson Cole, is bringing Uchibā to The Shops at Clearfork. It will be the group’s first restaurant in Fort Worth, and the timeline points to late 2027.
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Rock Springs Cafe shut its doors for good on June 30. It had sat inside the Rock Springs Building at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden since 2019, pouring coffee and building lunch plates for a steady stream of garden visitors who wanted something to eat between the rose collection and the Japanese Garden. That building has been standing since 1934, when the Botanic Garden first opened as the oldest one in Texas, and for a few months this fall it’s going to sit quiet while a full renovation happens inside it.
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Vickery Cafe has been a Fort Worth breakfast fixture for two decades, and this year it made its first real move, relocating from its longtime spot on Vickery Boulevard to 2421 W 7th Street, Suite 109, in the West 7th district. Chef and owner Curtis James still runs the kitchen the same way he always has: old-school diner bones with a Texas-Cajun streak running through nearly everything on the menu. It’s open daily from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., no separate weekday-versus-weekend split, which means brunch here isn’t a special occasion. It’s just what the place does every single day.
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The wood-fired oven at Felina sits where the brew tanks used to be. That’s the detail that tells you the most about how this restaurant came together. Alessandro and Alfonso Salvatore needed a bigger kitchen for a bigger idea, and the old Funky Picnic Brewery & Cafe space on Bryan Avenue in South Main had the bones for it, so they took an industrial shell and warmed it up until it felt like theirs.
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Charlie Unlu spent more than a decade managing expensive dining rooms — steakhouses, luxury hotels, the Dallas Cowboys organization. He understood restaurants from every angle. What none of those jobs let him do was put his wife Leman’s cooking in front of people.
Her family recipes go back generations in Turkey. They started selling her baklava at farmers markets, built a following, and in early 2025 opened a food hall stall at the Funky Town Food Hall under the name Beren — after their youngest daughter. Fort Worth Magazine called it one of the best new restaurants of the year. It had a waiting list on weekends.
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Nonna Tata in Fort Worth makes you want to order everything. The kitchen smells like garlic sizzling in olive oil, tomatoes breaking down into thick, sweet sauces, fresh herbs torn by hand, and bread that’s just come out of the oven, crust crackling and interior soft enough to soak up sauce like it’s meant to.
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For more than five decades, Swiss Pastry Shop has been a fixture on Fort Worth’s West Vickery Boulevard. What began in 1973 as the dream of Swiss-born baker Hans Muller has grown into a cherished neighborhood institution under the care of his son, Hans Peter Muller, who continues to honor and evolve the family legacy with quiet dedication and precision.
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The Chumley House, Duro Hospitality’s European-inspired steakhouse with British flair, is expanding its homage to London with the introduction of a Proper Sunday Roast for Two, available exclusively on Sundays.
Rooted in the timeless British tradition of gathering around the table at week’s end, the new Sunday Roast is designed as a shared experience—warm, indulgent, and unhurried. True to The Chumley House’s refined yet welcoming approach, the offering blends classic technique with bold, modern flavor.
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