{"id":291296,"date":"2026-05-13T14:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/291296\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:31:09","slug":"bodega-south-main-cafe-in-fort-worth-shifts-gears-breakfast-is-up-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/291296\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodega South Main cafe in Fort Worth shifts gears: Breakfast is up next"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bodega South Main<\/a> isn\u2019t just a little grocery anymore.<\/p>\n

Six years after it opened as a reliable little neighborhood market and sandwich counter, Bodega is now an excellent breakfast-lunch-and-takeout cafe, and it\u2019s only a half-mile from downtown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bodega is a survivor in South Main Village. It was one of the first food shops on the street and faithfully fed neighbors through both the pandemic and the diastrous 2021 Texas freeze.<\/p>\n

Now, the little cafe at 203 S. Main St. serves a growing menu of paninis, Reubens, quiche and desserts, with a full-service breakfast menu coming soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe grocery component was great in theory and I still miss the idea,\u201d owner-chef Tasha Monticure<\/a> wrote in a message.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t elaborate, but there isn\u2019t as much demand for small neighborhood markets anymore. Supermarket delivery is cheap and easy.<\/p>\n

So Bodega is more of a cafe-bakery.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s good at both.<\/p>\n

On a recent visit, a turkey Reuben on bakery rye with a spicy Russian dressing was a complete surprise.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of the menu favorites, along with a turkey-brie sandwich with apricot preserves, a roast-beef-and-cheddar on ciabatta or a ham-and Gouda on a croissant.<\/p>\n

These are huge sandwiches. Save half for dinner.<\/p>\n

Spinach-cremini mushroom quiche ranked with the best. A blueberry pie, uncommon in local bakeries, was loaded with flavor.<\/p>\n

Bodega also has muffins, cookies, bagels with a schmear and sometimes, one of its custom cakes.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what caught my attention. Teddy Wong\u2019s Dumplings & Wine nearby sells Bodega\u2019s cakes. A \u201cslice\u201d of the Italian cream was big enough for the table to share.<\/p>\n

Monticure\u2019s background is in baking and catering. Her family owned grocery stoes in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s shortened the afternoon hours \u2014 Bodega closes at 5 p.m. weekends, 4 p.m. Saturdays \u2014 to expand the breakfast. It opens weekdays and Saturdays at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n

South Main Street is not as lonely as it used to be.<\/p>\n

With new restauants opening nearby, Bodega will focus on \u201cdelicious scratch-made everything,\u201d she said, from sauces to baked items.<\/p>\n

Park on the street or behind Bodega; 682-224-5148, bodegasouthmain.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bodega South Main isn\u2019t just a little grocery anymore. Six years after it opened as a reliable little…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6997,116,118,117,20004,106532,106533],"class_list":["post-291296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-bodega","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-neighborhood-market","tag-south-main-village","tag-turkey-reuben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291296","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=291296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}