{"id":166885,"date":"2026-02-16T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166885\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:35:08","slug":"fire-damages-acclaimed-north-texas-pizza-restaurant-just-before-valentines-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166885\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire damages acclaimed North Texas pizza restaurant just before Valentine&#8217;s holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pizza Verde, a vegan pizza restaurant in Fort Worth, suffered damage from a fire on Friday, before Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 Pizza Verde, a cozy Fort Worth vegan pizza place<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/food\/top-texas-dishes-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0honored by Texas Monthly<\/a>, was badly damaged by a fire right before the Valentine&#8217;s Day rush.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Feb. 13<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/17aXcay3tA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0social media post<\/a>, Pizza Verde said it would close for the weekend after a roof fire caused damage inside the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire was sparked by an electrical issue, the Fort Worth Fire Department said in a statement. No one was injured in the fire, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear when the restaurant may reopen. Pizza Verde was nearly forced to close last year, but <a href=\"https:\/\/fwtx.com\/eat-drink\/pizza-verde-rises-again-with-help-from-the-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">was saved<\/a> after its customers rallied to financially back the restaurant and keep it open.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pizza Verde, a vegan pizza restaurant in Fort Worth, suffered damage from a fire on Friday, before Valentine&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-166885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}