July brought a wave of restaurant news to the Fort Worth area, from the reopening of a beloved 80-year-old Denton County landmark to the closure of eight local eateries. Here\u2019s a roundup of the month\u2019s biggest stories from Bud Kennedy\u2019s Eats Beat columns.<\/p>\n
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Smoked meatloaf is on the menu for DFW Restaurant Week in mid-August at City Works Eatery in Fort Worth, Texas. cityworksrestaurant.com <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a roundup:<\/p>\n
Ranchman\u2019s, an 80-year Denton County landmark in Ponder, reopened under restaurateur Marty Bryan as Ranchman\u2019s by Marty B<\/a> after being closed most of the last six years. A new bar, patio and Western-themed saloon have been added to the historic cafe once frequented during the filming of \u201cBonnie & Clyde.\u201dDFW Restaurant Week is marking its 30th year with reservations<\/a> for dinners beginning Aug. 10. It offers $49-$99 multi-course dinners and $29 lunches at more than 100 restaurants, with proceeds supporting Lena Pope and the North Texas Food Bank. Among the top Fort Worth restaurants taking reservations<\/a> now are Bonnell\u2019s, Reata and the Chumley House.Rex\u2019s Bar & Grill on South University Drive has launched a chef-driven brunch menu from Brian Olenjack<\/a>, featuring biscuits with jalape\u00f1o cream gravy, breakfast pizza and New York strip with eggs and kimchi. It\u2019s served weekends from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.At least eight North Texas restaurants are closing amid high food prices and economic pressures<\/a>, including Arlington\u2019s Taste of Europe (a \u201cDiners, Drive-Ins and Dives\u201d feature closing July 31 after 24 years) and Loco Coyote Grill, a 60-year-old barbecue landmark near Glen Rose closing July 19.Sean Malek, a former leader at Tim Love\u2019s restaurants and Ellerbe Fine Foods, has been promoted to lead the kitchen at Emilia\u2019s inside The Crescent Fort Worth<\/a>, the all-day Italian and coastal Mediterranean restaurant across from the Kimbell Art Museum.Teddy Wong\u2019s upscale Chinese restaurant and wine bar has opened a second location on the Weatherford courthouse square<\/a>, where diners are favoring red meat dishes like Mongolian-style Texas beef and wagyu beef pot stickers over the Fort Worth crowd\u2019s beloved soup dumplings and Peking duck.La Pistola Kitchen + Saloon, a 1970s \u201cspaghetti western\u201d-themed Italian restaurant from Jeffrey Yarbrough and Camille McDonald, is set to open this fall in the former Taco Heads space<\/a> on Montgomery Street across from Dickies Arena, featuring Texas wagyu, Iberico pork and Italian sandwiches.<\/p>\n The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The source reporting referenced above was written and edited entirely by journalists.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July brought a wave of restaurant news to the Fort Worth area, from the reopening of a beloved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-393322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393322","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=393322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}