{"id":307705,"date":"2026-05-25T07:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307705\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:54:31","slug":"fort-worths-iconic-roy-pope-grocery-gets-new-owners-and-more-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307705\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth’s iconic Roy Pope Grocery gets new owners and more top stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CultureMap<\/a>Updated Sat, May 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM UTC\"Roy<\/p>\n

Roy Pope is joining Westland Hospitality. | Facebook RoyPopeGrocery<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: The top Fort Worth news of the week includes the next chapter for a historic local business and Fort Worth’s acclaim as one of the best cities to live in 2026. Read on for our most popular stories, then check out the best things to do Memorial Day weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. Fort Worth’s iconic Roy Pope Grocery joins acclaimed Westland Hospitality<\/a>. Fort Worth\u2019s historic Roy Pope Grocery, a west-side neighborhood institution since 1943, will become part of Westland Hospitality, the acclaimed local restaurant group behind favorites such as Pulido\u2019s Kitchen & Cantina, Margie\u2019s Italian Gardens, and West Side Cafe.<\/p>\n

2. Where to drink in Fort Worth right now: 8 hotspots with new spring sips<\/a>. Summer is preheating, but spring is still in full swing, and these eight Fort Worth spots are serving up fresh sips for the season.<\/p>\n

3. Iconic Arlington motel from the ’60s makes spectacular return<\/a>. An iconic mid-century motel from the 1960s is reopening in Arlington. Caravan Court will come back to life following an upscale, modern reinvention.<\/p>\n

\"Caravan<\/p>\n

Caravan Court Hotel | Caravan Court Hotel is opening June 1 in Arlington. | Courtesy rendering<\/p>\n

4. Fort Worth crowned America’s No. 3 best big city to live in 2026<\/a>. Fort Worth earned the No. 3 spot on U.S. News & World Report’s best big cities to live, surpassing Austin, which got knocked down to No. 5 this year.<\/p>\n

5. Smashburgers and BBQ make this Fort Worth restaurant news mighty tasty<\/a>. There’s lots to chew on in this roundup of dining news around Fort Worth, including a new opening from one of the city’s busiest chefs, a reopening of a doughnut shop, an expansion for a popular food trailer, and a fun sushi concept expanding in DFW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Sat, May 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM UTC Roy Pope is joining Westland Hospitality. | Facebook RoyPopeGrocery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,107541,108200,68671],"class_list":["post-307705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-roy-pope","tag-roy-pope-grocery","tag-westland-hospitality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307705","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=307705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}