The west Fort Worth cafe storefront that was a set for TV’s “Landman” will open later this year as a full-service Texas-themed restaurant, owner Philip Murrin said Wednesday.
In creator Taylor Sheridan’s new series about the Texas oil business, the restaurant is the “Patch Cafe.” The real-life restaurant doesn’t have a name yet, Murrin said, but the family plans to open it later this year at 9840 Camp Bowie West Blvd.
The cafe will serve steaks, chicken-fried steaks and more by the culinary team at River Ranch Stockyards, a Murrin event venue in north Fort Worth, Murrin said.
A premium ice cream shop with sandwiches and salads, Rosebuds Picnic Supply, will open first next door. The Murrins hope to open it this summer in a former barbecue restaurant space at 9812 Camp Bowie West Blvd.
A 1951 building in west Fort Worth used as a cafe for TV’s “Landman” will become a real-life restaurant, as seen June 6, 2024.
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“We want to make this a neighborhood retail center the way it was intended,” Murrin said.
His family built the center in 1951. At various times, it has been home to a gas station, a hardware store, a feed store and other shops serving the former ranching town-turned-suburb.
The shooting of Landman, a Paramount+ series starring Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hamm and Demi Moore, has brought Westland to life along with the success of JD’s Hamburgers, owned by restaurateur Bourke Harvey and former Reata Restaurant manager Gigi Howell.
Jon Hamm, Demi Moore and Billy Bob Thornton star in “Landman,” a Taylor Sheridan TV series shot in Fort Worth for Paramount+.
“Bourke and Gigi have brought back the Westland history and we’re going to try to continue that,” Philip Murrin said.
Once, Westland was a stop between Fort Worth and Weatherford on the old transcontinental U.S. highway. Now, it is well-positioned between the city and growing development in Aledo and the Walsh Ranch subdivision.
The restaurant and ice cream shop will join JD’s, 9901 Camp Bowie West Blvd., which opened two years ago; the soon-to-open Margie’s Italian Gardens; La Iglesia, an interior-Mexico restaurant; and a bar, Fuel Stop 80.
The “Six Tiny Rosebuds” dance troupe was featured in director Billy Rose’s Honky Tonk Parade during the Frontier Centennial. The troupe members were Muriel Fuller, Florence Mann, Mildred Monti, Betty Pryor, Nella Plaston, and Helen Summers.
The name Rosebuds Picnic Supply refers to the history of the “Six Tiny Rosebuds,” a theater dance troupe of plus-sized women hired to wait on 1930s drive-up customers at the Jenny Lind Club, now gone at 9904 Camp Bowie West Blvd.
The club advertised later for “stout girls” and promoted the “World’s Largest Car Hops.”
The Murrin family has applied for the permit next door under the tentative name Steve’s Cafe, but that is likely to change, Murrin said.
Steve’s was the name of a 1930s and 1940s restaurant operated by grandfather Steve Murrin at 4700 Camp Bowie Blvd. The name remains in the sidewalk tile at what is now Lucile’s.
In 1940, the Jenny Lind Club in Fort Worth advertised for “stout girls” to work as the “world’s largest car hops.” First, the club hired a theater dance troupe named the “Six Tiny Rosebuds.” The 7up logo in the background was first used in 1939.