{"id":453215,"date":"2026-10-01T14:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453215\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:20:14","slug":"90-year-old-star-cafe-in-the-fort-worth-stockyards-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453215\/","title":{"rendered":"90-year-old Star Caf\u00e9 in the Fort Worth Stockyards closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future is uncertain for one of Fort Worth\u2019s landmark restaurants after the Star Caf\u00e9 closed its doors this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/entertainment\/restaurants\/eats-beat\/article317449057.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/a>, a server was shown in a social media video saying it was the restaurant\u2019s last day. Another staffer also posted on social media that the Star closed.<\/p>\n<p>Chef Victor Villarreal posted a video on Facebook showing the neon \u201copen\u201d sign going dark.<\/p>\n<p>The business originally opened in the \u201830s as Edna\u2019s Star Caf\u00e9 and operated under a number of names, including Star Caf\u00e9, before being remodeled and opening as one of the original Black-eyed Pea Restaurants in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Betty and Don Boles bought the restaurant in 1980, restored the name Star Caf\u00e9, and operated it before selling in 2022. Bar owner Drew Boatman bought the Star in 2024. He did not return any messages from the Star-Telegram.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/listen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">LISTEN <\/a>on the Audacy App<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/newsletter\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign Up<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/download\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow 100.3 JACK-FM<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JackFMDFW\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackFMDFW\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jackfmdfw\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future is uncertain for one of Fort Worth\u2019s landmark restaurants after the Star Caf\u00e9 closed its doors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-453215","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\/453215","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=453215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}