{"id":300800,"date":"2026-05-20T03:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300800\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:54:26","slug":"an-83-year-old-fort-worth-grocery-is-closing-heres-what-westland-plans-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300800\/","title":{"rendered":"An 83-year-old Fort Worth grocery is closing. Here\u2019s what Westland plans next"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current Roy Pope Grocery<\/a> has reduced its hours and now will close May 31 as a makeover begins under new owner Westland Hospitality Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Plans call for the 83-year-old neighborhood grocery and deli at 2300 Merrick St. to be remodeled into a restaurant and bar with the Roy Pope name, managing partner Bourke Harvey said.<\/p>\n

Westland, known for JD\u2019s Hamburgers<\/a> and for revitalizing 60-year-old Pulido\u2019s Kitchen<\/a> & Cantina and 73-year-old Margie\u2019s Italian<\/a> Gardens, will serve a original menu of contemporary Southern Americana dishes menu at the new Roy Pope restaurant, Harvey said.<\/p>\n

Like Westland\u2019s other restaurants, Roy Pope will include tributes to the original founders, Rose and Roy Pope.<\/p>\n

The menu will include steaks, seafood and the westside neighborhood\u2019s legacy \u201cMac salad,\u201d<\/a> said Harvey, a former Roy Pope grocery sacker. The chef is Levi Gardner of Margie\u2019s.<\/p>\n

That was served at the late Willis \u201cMac\u201d McIntosh\u2019s popular 1970s restaurants, including the former Carriage House steakhouse nearby on Camp Bowie Boulevard. McIntosh was also a butcher in the custom meat market at Roy Pope.<\/p>\n

\"Roy<\/p>\n

Roy Pope Grocery in Fort Worth was a finalist in a Star-Telegram Readers Choice poll forthe best places to shop local for Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n

(Amanda McCoy\/amccoy@star-telegram.com)<\/p>\n

For Westland Hospitality, the Roy Pope restaurant is yet another rescue of an old Fort Worth tradition.<\/p>\n

The company reopened the flagship Pulido\u2019s near South University Drive and added locations in Hurst, Willow Park and Eastland.<\/p>\n

The company also owns Curly\u2019s Frozen Custard and West Side Cafe along with Magdalena\u2019s Catering & Events, Westland Gardens and Westland Bar Co.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The remodeled bar at Pulido\u2019s original location on Pulido Street in Fort Worth, as seen June 20, 2024.<\/p>\n

For now, Roy Pope Grocery will open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., the grocery announced on social media. The deli is serving lunches from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

Grocery delivery services have hit small neighborhood supermarkets hard in recent years. In particular, Roy Pope is 1 mile from Central Market, a large specialty grocery from the San Antonio-based H-E-B Grocery chain.<\/p>\n

\"As<\/p>\n

As word spread in 2020 that Roy Pope Grocery was closing and for sale, customers drifted in.<\/p>\n

The original Roy Pope Grocery opened in 1943 and closed in 2020. It reopened duirng the COVID pandemic in 2021 under owner Mark Harris as a gourmet market, deli and coffee and wine bar led by restaurateurs Louis Lambert and Chris Reale of the Paris Coffee Shop.<\/p>\n

But it struggled as a grocery, and lacked the dining space and service for a thriving restaurant.<\/p>\n

The end of the Roy Pope grocery business brings an end to the west Fort Worth tradition that once saw Pope team up with fellow grocer Charles Kincaid.<\/p>\n

Pope and Kincaid operated a store together until they split in 1946 to operate competing stores.<\/p>\n

Kincaid\u2019s Grocery & Market, nearby on Camp Bowie Boulevard, stopped selling groceries in 1991 and became Kincaid\u2019s Hamburgers.<\/p>\n

\"Fried<\/p>\n

Fried chicken developed a wide following at the old Roy Pope Grocery, which closed in 2020.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The regular cheeseburger at the old Roy Pope Grocery in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The old Roy Pope hot food line at a \u201ccatfish Friday\u201d lunch.<\/p>\n

\"March<\/p>\n

March 28, 1955: At Fort Worth\u2019s Roy Pope Grocery, which is soon to become a Super Save Market, Roy Pope (right) and Willis McIntosh (left), manager of the meat market, look over a prime rib cut.<\/p>\n

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JD\u2019s Hamburgers, Pulido\u2019s Kitchen & Cantina, Margie\u2019s Italian Gardens, Curly\u2019s Frozen Custard, Magdalena\u2019s Catering & Events, West Side Cafe,<\/p>\n

shorter hours and only through May 31 as a complete makeover continues under new owner Westland Hospitality Group.<\/p>\n

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