Bocca Osteria Romana spawns sibling, Felina
Bocca Osteria Romana, one of the city’s best restaurants, will soon have a sibling. Read...
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Tag: Italian food
Margie’s reopens with new look, same heart
One of the west side’s oldest restaurants, Margie’s Italian, makes a glorious...
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Fort Worth’s Best New Restaurants 2024
My picks for the best new restaurants to open in and around Fort Worth in 2024 (and 2023, too) can...
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Housemade pastas + an old-Fort Worth vibe
Bocca Osteria Romana gets my vote for the city’s best new restaurant. Here’s...
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Oma Leen’s worth the drive to Hico
A reborn farm-to-table restaurant that specializes in housemade pastas is worth the hike to Hico....
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TX-born brothers opening Italian spot on S. Main
A trio of Texas-born brothers who’ve lived and worked all over the world are opening an...
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Cafe Bella’s secret to success
Fort Worth Magazine readers once again chose tiny Cafe Bella in Tanglewood as their favorite...
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The scratch-made pasta revolution
A new generation of chefs are tapping into the age-old tradition of making pastas the hard way: by...
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Hit the highway for this new pizzeria in Hico
Self-taught chefs open a quaint pizzeria and pasta joint, called BarbaCelli’s, in the tiny...
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Fireside Pies reopens in new location
UPDATE: This restaurant is now closed. Tired of all the congestion, parking woes and bad behavior...
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A look at downtown’s new 61 Osteria Italian restaurant
The upscale Italian restaurant comes from the same owner-chef team as Grace and Little Red Wasp....
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The best new restaurants in Fort Worth, 2022
My favorite restaurants to open between 2020 and the first half of 2022 are right here. Note: Some...
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