{"id":452195,"date":"2026-09-30T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452195\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:04:17","slug":"why-this-new-north-fort-worth-bistro-is-drawing-attention-9-ounce-somm-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452195\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this new north Fort Worth bistro is drawing attention: 9 Ounce & Somm opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Presidio neighborhood off Heritage Trace Parkway finally has a local cafe, bistro and hangout.<\/p>\n

And not just any bistro. The new 9 Ounce & Somm \u2014 a pun on wine and “sommelier” \u2014 has food from a team led by Majid Shavandy, an honored chef from Fort Worth now serving wines in a cozy setting 1 mile west of Interstate 35W at 9577 Harmon Road.<\/p>\n

Shavandy is the former co-owner of The Pegasus<\/a>, one of the region’s top-rated restaurants during its mid-2000s run in the Park Hill neighborhood of Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

His wife, Denise Paul Shavandy<\/a>, is a big hit in Burleson at American Revelry after a stint at Cafe Modern.<\/p>\n

Majid Shavandy has been directing college culinary programs and overseeing corporate kitchens, but returned to restaurants after talking with owner Ana Stull.<\/p>\n

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The dining room and bar at 9 Ounce and Somm in north Fort Worth is surrounded by picture windows looking out on the patio along Heritage Trace Parkway and Harmon Road.<\/p>\n

He describes the wine bistro and cocktail bar as more of a “casual, relaxed gathering place” \u2014 a bistro with barstools and couches plus a few regular tables, a corner bar with a “living-room feel” in what is mostly a wasteland of chain restaurants.<\/p>\n

The restaurant includes a sprawling patio with a view of the bumper-cars traffic around a Harmon Road traffic circle. There’s also a separate cigar patio.<\/p>\n

The food is what you might expect from his and Stull’s Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ancestry: simple hummus and feta dishes; a Persian cucumber-tomato salad; and entrees such as Spanish chicken bravas, Moorish pinchos (chicken skewers) or Lebanese arayas with lamb and beef on naan..<\/p>\n

Yes, there’s a steak. It’s a petite filet, served with Spanish manchego-cheese mashed potatoes and romesco sauce.<\/p>\n

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A cigar lounge at 9 Ounce and Somm in Fort Worth, Texas, as seen Sept. 22, 2026.<\/p>\n

The decor is all from Stull’s favorite color palette: Dallas Cowboys blue seating, with red napkins and trim for Spain’s “La Roja” national soccer team.<\/p>\n

Stull, born into an Air Force family to a mother from Madrid<\/a>, served 10 years in the military but always had imagined owning a convivial bistro and restaurant, she said.<\/p>\n

“This is my very first place \u2014 it’s been a dream of mine since my 30s,” she said.<\/p>\n

The restaurant had not opened on this visit, but it’s open now for dinner nightly and lunch at 11 weekends.<\/p>\n

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Renderings of the patio with cigar corner at 9 Ounce & Somm in north Fort Worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Presidio neighborhood off Heritage Trace Parkway finally has a local cafe, bistro and hangout. And not just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[155433,155432,116,118,117,155431],"class_list":["post-452195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-american-revelry","tag-denise-paul-shavandy","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-majid-shavandy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452195","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=452195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}