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News You Can Eat

Fort Worth has the tastiest tidbits in this edition of restaurant news

Teresa Gubbins
Jun 28, 2013 | 2:58 pm
  • If you want your Love Shack fix, you can get it at the Stockyards.
    Love Shack at the Oui/Facebook
  • Frankie's Sports Bar and Grill closed its Uptown Dallas branch.
  • Village Marquee Texas Bar & Grill may soon be gone from Highland Park Village,but you'll still be able to get chef Andre Natera's food.
    Courtesy photo

There's lots of restaurant news emerging from Fort Worth this week, including openings, closures and openings. Menus are changing, lunches are lunching and brunches are brunching.

In Fort Worth, the bad news first: Love Shack Oui, the branch of Tim Love's burger joint on Bluebonnet Circle, just south of TCU, will close. The landlord issued a press release saying that "the landlord of Oui Lounge and Love Shack have agreed to split ways after they could not agree on the direction for the space" and described it as "a mutually beneficial parting of ways." With the Love Shack closure, Love will no longer oversee the operation of the adjacent Oui Lounge.

Fort Worth's Sundance Square announced that a cigar bar will open this fall in its new Commerce Building development. The Silver Leaf Cigar Bar will be on the ground level of the building with a 351-square-foot patio, which would seem to be essential for a smoker joint. The cigar bar comes from Tom Cavinder, who also owns Southwest Elevators. It'll join two other previously announced restaurants at the project: Del Frisco’s Grille and Shannon Wynne's Bird Café.

Popular Fort Worth food truck operation Salsa Limón now has a bricks-and-mortar restaurant, dubbed "Museo," located at 929 University Dr. across from the Modern Art Museum. As befits its location, the restaurant has handcrafted masks and wall art, along with a patio featuring log benches made from pine tree trunks. The menu includes new breakfast items; fish and shrimp tacos; aguas frescas; and beer, wine and champagne. Salsa Limón currently has three food trucks — two in Fort Worth and one slated for the Greenville Avenue area and Klyde Warren Park in Dallas this fall.

The fractured Village Marquee Texas Bar & Grill at Highland Park Village will change its identity entirely, closing in July and reopening in August as two restaurants. Downstairs will become Village Kitchen, featuring executive chef Andre Natera. Upstairs will become Toko V, an Asian sushi spot, which will feature its own sushi chef. The Marquee Bar will remain the Marquee Bar.

After 13 years, the Uptown branch of Frankie's Sports Bar and Grill closed last week after being unable to make a deal with the landlord. Owners Bill and Johnnie Katz said goodbye via a letter in which they thanked their customers and reminded them that there are two other Frankie's located in Lewisville and Fort Worth. Katz vows that he'll find another location in Dallas, and it will go in a new direction.

On the menu
Smashburger has a new shake flavor: peanut butter and jelly, made with Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream, strawberry syrup and crushed Nutter Butter cookies. It'll be available July 1 through September 30, at all Dallas-Fort Worth locations.

Seasons 52's summer menu includes heirloom tomatoes, basil, corn and watermelon. Heirloom tomato "carpaccio" has tomato slices, goat cheese and basil. Turkey skewer sits on a bed of farro. Steak salad comes with corn, tomatoes and blue cheese.

Chiladas Fresh Mex Grill now offers brunch every Saturday and Sunday, 9 am-1 pm, at the new Park Cities location on Lovers Lane. Menu will include huevos rancheros; breakfast quesadillas; spicy scrambled eggs with green onion, jalapeno, roasted chile and flour tortilla; breakfast tacos; chile relleno; chicken enchiladas; churros; and mimosas.

HG Sply Co on Greenville Avenue is open daily for lunch, 11 am-2 pm. Menu includes beet salad, ginger-garlic hummus, sandwiches, and Chipotle-style "bowls" in which you get to specify your choice of "base" — quinoa, curried cauliflower, greens, sweet potato hash, spicy chickpeas, parsnip-celeriac mash — plus meat and vegetable toppings. Sounds good, even at $14.

Pappas Bros. Steakhouse is better known for steak. But under the impression that seafood is "lighter" than steak, the restaurant has added a couple of seafood dishes designated as summer menu items: oysters on the half shell and sea bass with Maine lobster.

Central 214 has a new dinner menu with summer items from chef Graham Dodds. Not sure how seasonal bacon-wrapped trout or pork chop with cream cheese grits is, but the black-eyed pea fritters with pickled jalapeños and rouille sauce and panzanella salad sound summery. Chef Graham Dodds has also introduced a line of flatbreads as a tribute to chef Randall Copeland, made from a recipe Copeland developed.

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COMING ATTRACTIONS

Acclaimed Texas chef cooks up restaurant in swanky Hill Country hotel

Eric Sandler
Oct 23, 2026 | 9:37 am
Bar Bludorn The Woodlands food spread
Photo by Caroline Fontenot
Bludorn Hospitality is expanding to San Antonio and Fredericksburg.

Whether it's part of the trip or the reason for it, a new culinary experience will soon be awaiting Texans traveling to the Hill Country. Distinguished Texan chef Aaron Bludorn's Bludorn Hospitality Group will open a restaurant and lead the culinary program at The Kimpton Fredericksburg, a luxury hotel that’s expected to open in late 2027.

The still-unnamed restaurant will be a fresh concept from the company that’s behind five Houston restaurants — its flagship fine dining concept Bludorn, seafood restaurant Navy Blue, French-inspired Perseid at the Hotel Saint Augustine, and two locations of Bar Bludorn, including its recently opened location in The Woodlands. Later this year, Bludorn, his wife Victoria Pappas Bludorn, and their business partner Cherif Mbodji, will open a new restaurant in San Antonio's Pearl.

“We really loved the idea of being out in Fredericksburg. With us opening in San Antonio, we’ll already have a team out there,” Bludorn tells CultureMap. “We’re a growing Texas hospitality group. We see it as a great opportunity to grow our brand with Texans in really cool spaces.”

Bludorn adds that the restaurant will be a new concept from the company. Details, including its name and menu, will be released closer to the opening.

“We were drawn to Aaron’s ability to create a dining experience that feels both approachable and elevated, where exceptional food and thoughtful service come together in a way that makes every guest feel welcome,” said Blake Berg, senior vice president of development & construction for hotel owner DC Partners. “We recognize that experiential dining is an important part of what makes a destination successful, particularly in a market as distinctive as Fredericksburg.”

First announced in 2025, the Kimpton Fredericksburg is a 210-room luxury hotel. In addition to the Bludorn restaurant, it will offer a 10,000-square-foot outdoor pool and deck, a state-of-the-art fitness center, and more than 18,000 square feet of meeting and event space.

The hotel will anchor The Meuse, a 22-acre mixed-use development with more than 70,000 square feet of retail space. Previously announced tenants include Houston-based Padre’s Wine Company, Texas bootmaker Lucchese, westernwear label Double D Ranch, gourmet food company Fischer & Wieser, and Jackson Ballard Gallery.

Bar Bludorn The Woodlands food spread

Photo by Caroline Fontenot

Bludorn Hospitality is expanding to San Antonio and Fredericksburg.

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