{"id":410410,"date":"2026-08-19T02:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410410\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T02:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:42:27","slug":"4-alarm-fire-destroys-beirut-grill-and-smashtoast-in-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410410\/","title":{"rendered":"4-alarm fire destroys Beirut Grill and SmashToast in Arlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1884\" height=\"1284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Arlington-Restaurant-Fire-Lauren-Drewes-Daniels.jpeg\" class=\"article-thumbnail-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"a fire devastated two restaurants in Arlington Monday afternoon.\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA four-alarm fire on a commercial space along Abrams Road in Arlington devestated at least two restaurants. No injuries are reported. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Drewes Daniels<\/p>\n<p>The Arlington Fire Department was still on the scene Tuesday morning as a pile of rubble was all that remained of one Arlington restaurant and bookstore. <\/p>\n<p>The blaze began Monday afternoon at 2410 W. Abram St. at the intersection of Bowen Road. <\/p>\n<p>The Arlington Fire Department said crews were dispatched at 5:37 p.m. Monday. In all, more than 80 firefighters were called to respond to the scene, including 13 engines and four ladder trucks. Footage from DFWScanner shows <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2008073673268223\">towers of smoke<\/a> coming from the building. The roof of the building, which included six units, collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Arlington Fire Department  Lt. Juan Mata said that contents in the building were likely a total loss. There were no civilian or firefighter injuries reported. <\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the Food &amp; Drink newsletter to get the latest stories delivered to your inbox<\/p>\n<p>THANK YOU!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re all set.<\/p>\n<p>CLOSE\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Beirut Grill has been an Arlington restaurant for more than a decade, originally on Cooper Street near the University of Texas at Arlington campus, before moving to this spot a few miles west. <\/p>\n<p>SmashToast was relatively new, a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXueBC-lFto\/?img_index=1\">cafe that also housed a small bookstore,<\/a> Folklore Grove Bookstore. The concept was a collaboration between longtime friends and Martin High School graduates, Bobby King and Kait Thibeaux. <\/p>\n<p>The nearby Tex-Mex restaurant El Gabacho does not appear to have been damaged. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A four-alarm fire on a commercial space along Abrams Road in Arlington devestated at least two restaurants. No&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1961],"class_list":["post-410410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-openings-closings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410410","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=410410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}