{"id":457689,"date":"2026-10-06T05:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457689\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T05:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:32:34","slug":"japanese-steakhouse-to-join-italian-restaurant-from-aspen-in-west-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457689\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese steakhouse to join Italian restaurant from Aspen in west Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Japanese hibachi steakhouse from Aspen, Colorado, is planned off Camp Bowie Boulevard next door to the same company’s new Italian restaurant, according to a city zoning application<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aspen Hospitality<\/a> Group, owned in part<\/a> by energy executive John Sellers<\/a> of Fort Worth, has applied to build the Japanese steakhouse at 2509 Merrick St., just south of the company’s planned Acquolina at 5139 Camp Bowie Blvd.<\/p>\n

The hibachi steakhouse would replace what was originally proposed<\/a> as Acquolina’s parking lot at Merrick Street and Birchman Avenue. Acquolina, which will take over the former Bella Italia West restaurant, has been downsized significantly from a proposed 9,020 square feet, according to an illustration on the company website.<\/p>\n

Bella Italia West moved to 6115 Camp Bowie Blvd.<\/p>\n

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A new proposed design for the Acquolina restaurant in Camp Bowie Boulevard in Fort Worth, Texas, as shown on the Aspen Hospitality Group website.<\/p>\n

Aspen Hospitality has requested a city zoning amendment to allow a restaurant with a 4-foot-high fence and 19 parking spaces. The steakhouse would use five spaces in another private lot across Merrick Street, according to the application.<\/p>\n

The company website has added a Fort Worth description: “Over the years, we welcomed generations of Fort Worth families to our Aspen restaurants. … We are not here to recreate Aspen. We are here to belong and create something genuine for Fort Worth.”<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The proposed design of a Japanese steakhouse on Merrick Street in Fort Worth, Texas, as shown on the Aspen Hospitality Group website.<\/p>\n

The applications are filed by managing partner Carlos Solorzano-Smith of Aspen Hospitality Group.<\/p>\n

Acquolina is<\/a> one of several Aspen restaurants owned in part<\/a> by Sellers,<\/a> a co-founder of Fort Worth-based Double Eagle Energy and Double Eagle Development.<\/p>\n

Acquolina is one of Aspen’s highest-rated restaurants.<\/p>\n

According to an Aspen Times review, it “feels like Italy, minus the jet lag. … It’s Aspen with a Roman soul.”<\/p>\n

\"Acquario<\/p>\n

Acquario in Aspen, Colorado, will open a location in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Japanese hibachi steakhouse from Aspen, Colorado, is planned off Camp Bowie Boulevard next door to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-457689","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\/457689","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=457689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}