{"id":478999,"date":"2026-10-28T06:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478999\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T06:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:16:21","slug":"old-chicago-pizza-and-taproom-closes-last-north-texas-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478999\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom closes last North Texas store"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom<\/a> has closed its last North Texas restaurant.<\/p>\n

The Presidio Crossing location in the Alliance area of north Fort Worth quietly shut down in October.<\/p>\n

Yelpers reported<\/a> the restaurant as closed, and Old Chicago\u2019s website only shows one Texas location in Waco<\/a>. Additionally, Business Liquidation was selling<\/a> Old Chicago kitchen appliances and beer taps on Facebook.<\/p>\n

The restaurant was open for 10-years and outlasted a Garland store and two Dallas locations that closed at the same time in 2020, pre-COVID, due to \u201cbusiness decisions.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Old Chicago was known for an extensive beer collection and Chicago style pies \u2014 both the thick deep dish and thin, tavern style cracker crust. The menus also had calzones, wings and pepperoni rolls.<\/p>\n

The restaurant chain was owned by SPB Hospitality before it sold its brewery brands<\/a> in 2025. The new owner was never revealed. Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom now operates 47 locations across 17 states.<\/p>\n

The closure of Old Chicago in Alliance Fort Worth follows news of other pizzerias opening in that area.<\/p>\n

California-based Pizza Guys<\/a>, will open early next year at 3529 Heritage Trace Parkway. This restaurant from Sacramento is a Yelp Top 100 pizza chain that serves high-quality pizzas, made with fresh dough, whole milk mozzarella and California-grown tomatoes.<\/p>\n

Za Zoom drive-through pizza<\/a> by the slice concept is on the docket for North Tarrant Parkway in Fort Worth. One of the founders, Tyler DiGiovanni, created his own pizza oven business, sold it to Solo Stove and spent years baking pizza pies for high-profile events. An opening date has not yet been decided, as construction has just begun.<\/p>\n

Hideaway Pizza<\/a> from Oklahoma has had success, still drawing crowds, since opening in August 2025. The two-story restaurant is popular in the Alliance area for fluffy-crusted specialty pizzas and fried mushrooms.<\/p>\n

\"Mac Mac & cheese with pesto, jalape\u00f1o and roasted peppers at Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom in far north Fort Worth Rodger Mallison Fort Worth Star-Telegram \"Beer Beer taps at Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom in far north Fort Worth. The restaurant has some 25 beers on tap, including North Texas brews, and about 50 more in bottles. Rodger Mallison Fort Worth Star-Telegram <\/p>\n

This story was originally published October 27, 2026 at 12:01 PM.<\/p>\n

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Ella Gonzales is a service journalism reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She is part of a team of local journalists who answer reader questions and write about life in North Texas. Ella mainly writes about local restaurants and where to find good deals around town.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom has closed its last North Texas restaurant. The Presidio Crossing location in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-478999","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\/478999","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=478999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}