FORT WORTH
The Presidio neighborhood off Heritage Trace Parkway finally has a local cafe, bistro and hangout.
And not just any bistro. The new 9 Ounce & Somm — a pun on wine and “sommelier” — has food from a team led by Majid Shavandy, an honored chef from Fort Worth now serving wines in a cozy setting 1 mile west of Interstate 35W at 9577 Harmon Road.
Shavandy is the former co-owner of The Pegasus, one of the region’s top-rated restaurants during its mid-2000s run in the Park Hill neighborhood of Fort Worth.
His wife, Denise Paul Shavandy, is a big hit in Burleson at American Revelry after a stint at Cafe Modern.
Majid Shavandy has been directing college culinary programs and overseeing corporate kitchens, but returned to restaurants after talking with owner Ana Stull.
The dining room and bar at 9 Ounce and Somm in north Fort Worth is surrounded by picture windows looking out on the patio along Heritage Trace Parkway and Harmon Road. Bud Kennedy bud@star-telegram.com
He describes the wine bistro and cocktail bar as more of a “casual, relaxed gathering place” — a bistro with barstools and couches plus a few regular tables, a corner bar with a “living-room feel” in what is mostly a wasteland of chain restaurants.
The restaurant includes a sprawling patio with a view of the bumper-cars traffic around a Harmon Road traffic circle. There’s also a separate cigar patio.
The food is what you might expect from his and Stull’s Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ancestry: simple hummus and feta dishes; a Persian cucumber-tomato salad; and entrees such as Spanish chicken bravas, Moorish pinchos (chicken skewers) or Lebanese arayas with lamb and beef on naan..
Yes, there’s a steak. It’s a petite filet, served with Spanish manchego-cheese mashed potatoes and romesco sauce.
A cigar lounge at 9 Ounce and Somm in Fort Worth, Texas, as seen Sept. 22, 2026. Bud Kennedy bud@star-telegram.com
The decor is all from Stull’s favorite color palette: Dallas Cowboys blue seating, with red napkins and trim for Spain’s “La Roja” national soccer team.
Stull, born into an Air Force family to a mother from Madrid, served 10 years in the military but always had imagined owning a convivial bistro and restaurant, she said.
“This is my very first place — it’s been a dream of mine since my 30s,” she said.
The restaurant had not opened on this visit, but it’s open now for dinner nightly and lunch at 11 weekends.
Renderings of the patio with cigar corner at 9 Ounce & Somm in north Fort Worth. Courtesy of Design Studio
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Bud Kennedy is celebrating his 40th year writing about restaurants in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He has written the “Eats Beat” dining column in print since 1985 and online since 1992 — that’s more than 3,000 columns about Texas cafes, barbecue, burgers and where to eat.
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