{"id":23319,"date":"2025-10-27T19:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/23319\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:05:06","slug":"the-sour-boule-expands-with-house-made-meats-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/23319\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sour Boule Expands With House-Made Meats in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the West Side of Fort Worth, The Sour Boule<\/a> has quietly become a neighborhood institution \u2014 a bakery and cafe where every detail is overseen with care. The eatery is known for its house-made bread, sold by the loaf or used to craft gourmet sandwiches and pastries. As of October, the Sour Boule has added house-made meats to its offerings \u2014 an endeavor that had been on the table from the start.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What began as a home-kitchen experiment in sourdough has grown into a bustling, full-service operation that draws crowds for scratch-made sandwiches and artisanal loaves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Husband-and-wife team Lance and Alexis Misner opened the cafe in Sept. 2023 in the former Busy B\u2019s Bakery space at 3701 Southwest Blvd. Nearly a year later, they moved next door into a larger space<\/a> once occupied by Edelweiss \u2014 expanding both their kitchen and their ambitions. Today, The Sour Boule makes everything from scratch, including all its deli meats \u2014 a shift Lance describes as both challenging and rewarding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something I wanted to do from the beginning,\u201d he says. \u201cOur goal was always to have fresh, clean, quality food. We\u2019ve just kind of got in the habit of ordering our deli meats, and finally I was like, \u2018It\u2019s time to stop. Let\u2019s just do it. We have the capacity, we have the room.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The process started with chicken, then turkey, followed by roast beef and ham.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m bringing the meat already cut into sections, so that way it helps on the labor side \u2014 the faster I can get the meat marinating and brining … the quicker we can get it back out to the consumer,\u201d Lance explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He admits that the most challenging part of transitioning to in-house meats was mastering the timing and processes needed to ensure safety and consistency. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the help of timers, tracking sheets, and careful planning, we\u2019ve now got the system down to maintain quality across every order,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So why start making in-house meats now? Lance says it was an issue of space at the original location.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always cooked my entire life,\u201d he says. \u201cI know how to season meats and stuff like that. But we couldn\u2019t do the meats thing in our first location \u2014 we didn\u2019t have the space. Now that we\u2019ve got over here, we made some transitions and changes, and now we\u2019re going fully in-house.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Misners\u2019 journey hasn\u2019t been without growing pains. When they first expanded, their team swelled to nearly 70 employees, and the kitchen struggled to keep up with demand. Lance recalls the lesson clearly: growth must be measured, and customer feedback is invaluable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t grow too fast. Stay calm,\u201d he says. \u201cListening to our customers helped us refine our approach \u2014 and focus on what people actually wanted.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, with a streamlined team of 10 and a kitchen built for both precision and scale, The Sour Boule hums with activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beyond the food, Lance emphasizes the culture behind the cafe: \u201cWe treat people with dignity \u2014 and that\u2019s our mantra. That\u2019s what helps a good business grow and move forward. Word of mouth more than any billboard or any magazine article.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Because the eatery is running smoothly, Lance now has time to tinker with new ideas that might spark the next trend. \u201cWe have a fantastic team, and now I get to be creative again,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Sour Boule<\/a> is located at 3801 Southwest Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76116.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the West Side of Fort Worth, The Sour Boule has quietly become a neighborhood institution \u2014 a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16774,320,116,118,117,16776,16775,354,16773,1012,2324,92],"class_list":["post-23319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-bread","tag-food-and-drink","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-homemade","tag-meat","tag-restaurants","tag-sour-boule","tag-stephen-montoya","tag-style","tag-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319","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=23319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}