A Dallas-based catering and events company will open a wine bar in the former T&P rail station restaurant and will rent the adjacent ballroom for weddings, Trinity Metro announced Monday.
In July 2024, when Fort Worth-based Trinity Metro bought the historic restaurant and patio in the 1931-vintage Texas & Pacific Railway Terminal, officials hinted that it might become a major downtown restaurant and banquet room.
Instead, Station & Vine Wine Bar will replace the former T&P Tavern restaurant on the station concourse at 221 W. Lancaster Ave.
Both the bar and the elaborate ballroom will be leased for weddings and banquets by Edible Ideas Inc. of Dallas, which also rents wedding venues such as Belle Manor near Burleson and Classic Oaks near Mansfield.
Edible Ideas also operates Exhibit Cafe in the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.
The former patio-train concourse will offer a lounge area and lawn games, Trinity Metro announced.
The 5,400-square-foot ballroom, formerly the Texas & Pacific Railway Terminal Main Waiting Room, is one of Fort Worth’s most photographed landmarks.
It has 35-foot ceilings, ornate chandeliers and classic Art Deco architecture from the 1920s Zigzag Moderne period of New York City’s Empire State Building and Chrysler Building.
When the restaurant closed in July 2024 after 14 years, it still looked basically the same as it did from 1931 to 1969, when it serving eastbound and westbound passengers on a concourse that hosted celebrities such as President Harry Truman or singer Elvis Presley.
