{"id":348344,"date":"2026-06-24T11:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348344\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:04:14","slug":"fort-worth-botanic-garden-restaurant-gets-upgrade-when-itll-close-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348344\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Botanic Garden restaurant gets upgrade; when it\u2019ll close, what\u2019s next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A company known for makeovers of legacy Fort Worth restaurants will take over the cafe in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, according to an announcement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cafe in the garden\u2019s 91-year-old Rock Springs building will close June 30 and will reopen in fall as Flora House, a new venture of Margie\u2019s and Pulido\u2019s owner Westland Hospitality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Westland chef Juan Rodriguez of Magdalena\u2019s, another of the company\u2019s restaurants, will plan a new menu described as a \u201cbold reimagining\u201d of the cafe space that has operated in recent years as Rock Springs Cafe and previously as The Gardens Restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The new cafe will handle catering at garden events and will offer garden supper clubs, according to a joint announcement by the garden and Westland, which now runs 10 restaurants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Westland Hospitality grew from JD\u2019s Hamburgers, a successful effort by Gigi Howell, formerly of Reata Restaurant, and Bourke Harvey of Curly\u2019s Frozen Custard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The company has restored and reopened three Pulido\u2019s restaurants and added a fourth. It also revamped Margie\u2019s, a 70-plus-year-old Italian food landmark on Camp Bowie Boulevard West near JD\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Westland also operates West Side Cafe; Westland Gardens, a plant nursery and events center; a planned Westland Bar; and a planned Roy Pope restaurant in a former westside grocery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rock Springs Cafe has been operated by Dallas-based Kelcher Entertainment, which runs of six other bars and restaurants in Bedford and in the Dallas area. The Kelcher agreement will end June 30, a Garden spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The building in the Botanic Garden has operated as a restaurant since 1992 after more than 50 years as the garden headquarters and gift shop.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Flora House will be the new restaurant inside the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"769\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/84194bfc22a55ebaf5c4294e25f621c3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Flora House will be the new restaurant inside the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A company known for makeovers of legacy Fort Worth restaurants will take over the cafe in the Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,890,118,117,124288,109290],"class_list":["post-348344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-botanic-garden","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-rock-springs-cafe","tag-westland-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348344","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=348344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}