Stephen Montoya
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Each December, we look back at the greatest restaurants that opened in Fort Worth over the last 12 months. In January, we flip the culinary calendar to look at what’s ahead.
This year’s new restaurant forecast, strangely enough, may sound a bit like last year’s, since many of the restaurants slated to open in ‘25 got bumped to ‘26. But as anyone in the restaurant industry will tell you, never bank on your restaurant opening until it actually opens.
With that being said, here’s a look at some of the new restaurants slated to open in Fort Worth this year.
Beren Mediterranean Empire Kitchen
Opening: Early 2026
One of Fort Worth’s best new restaurants of 2025 is getting an upgrade for 2026. The popular Turkish spot from the Erhan family is leaving the Funky Town Food Hall for a full-fledged brick-and-mortar. They’re not going far, just a few blocks over, into the sleek Near Southside space recently vacated by vegan restaurant Maiden. The move will give the restaurant room to stretch its legs, with a bigger, warmer dining area and expanded menu of modern and classic Mediterranean dishes.
Details: 1216 Sixth Ave., berenmediterranean.com
Beverly’s Downtown
Opening: March
Easily one of the city’s most anticipated restaurants comes from the team behind one of last year’s biggest culinary success stories, The Mont. Now, the same owners turn their attention to this high-end Mexican restaurant, which will open this spring in the basement of the historic Hogan Building downtown. Designed by Fort Worth firm Maven — which also designed The Mont — the 7,000-square-foot restaurant will be open for quick downtown lunches and will morph into a more leisurely dinner-and-drinks destination at night. Menu items haven’t been unveiled yet, but a release promises a combination of Northern and coastal Mexican dishes made by hand with fresh, local and seasonal ingredients.
Details: 901 Houston St.
Broadway 10 Bar & Chophouse
Opening: Spring/summer, maybe
Originally slated to open late 2024 and now bumped to this spring/summer, this new downtown steakhouse will serve as the on-site restaurant for Deco, a 27-story high rise featuring deco-style, luxury apartment homes and penthouses. Says a release, the 8,500-square-foot restaurant will spotlight hand-cut steaks and seafood grilled over a blend of pecan, oak, and hickory woods. Accompanying the entrees will be family-style sides such as smoked Gouda mashed potatoes and lobster mac and cheese. They'll also serve sushi because, well, why not? The restaurant comes from Provisions Concepts, an Oklahoma-based restaurant group. Fort Worth will be Broadway 10’s second location; the original is in Oklahoma City.
Details: 969 Commerce St., b10chophouse.com
Cafe Mirador
Opening: Early 2026
Fort Worth’s Cultural District is getting its own version of Dallas’ Forty Five Ten shopping mecca, and with it will come a new location of Café Mirador, its in-house, lunch-and-lounge restaurant. The menu will feature some of the restaurant’s signature dishes — an Instagram-ready lobster roll, silky whipped ricotta, and playful ahi tuna cornettes — executed with a bit of flair by, according to Paper City, Fort Worth native and chef Manny Gutierrez, who’ll use seasonal ingredients and locally sourced produce to level up each dish.
Details: 3220 West Seventh St., mirador-dallas.com
Con Azucar
Con Azucar Cafe
Con Azucar Cafe
Opening: January
This tiny Mexican coffeehouse and small bites spot recently opened in the cool old north side building that Fort Worth chef Juan Rodriguez originally purchased for a new restaurant concept. But life steered Rodriguez in another direction (he's now working with Westland Hospitality Group), leaving the 70-year-old building open for the first Texas franchise location of this national chain. Con Azucar offers coffee drinks and light refreshers that feature flavors derived from popular Mexican candies; rotating horchatas and other agua frescas; traditional café de olla, a cinnamon-spiced coffee drink made in an earthen clay pot; and Mexican pastries and sandwiches.
Details: 1216 N. Main St., conazucarcafe.com
Drinks ’N Such
Opening: First quarter 2026
Think of Drinks ’N Such as a restaurant supergroup, a culinary Traveling Wilburys. The new TCU-area concept — which is taking over the former Carter’s Coffee space — brings together talented Fort Worth chef David Hollister, whose resume includes Wild Acre and Gas Monkey Bar ’N Grill, and partners Clayton Grunewald and Tino DeFranco of Funky Lime Hospitality, the team behind spots like Reservoir, The Whiskey Garden, and Shot:30. Rounding out the crew is Drew Boatman, known for Rusty Nickel and Star Cafe. Together, they’re crafting a food-hall-inspired menu served in a sports-bar setting, with dishes drawn from multiple culinary styles and locales.
Details: 2736 Stanley Ave., instagram.com/drinks.n.such
Duong DeVille
Opening: Spring/summer
Duong DeVille marks the long-awaited first solo restaurant from Hao Tran, our city’s beloved dumpling virtuoso. After years of pop-ups, collaborations, and running her self-named market and bistro on the Near Southside, Tran will finally put her full range on display inside a 4,000-square-foot space that’s part of siblings Will Churchill and Corrie Watson Fletcher’s new Entrepreneur Park development in White Settlement. The menu will go well beyond dumplings, blending traditional Vietnamese flavors with Tran’s inventive, homey style. Look for dishes such as a rich beef rib pho and delicate steamed rice cakes; the latter is a specialty dish from the Vietnamese city of Hue, from where many of Tran’s recipes originated. She’ll also carve out space for market items, she says, and she’ll have plenty of room to continue her popular cooking classes. For those of us who’ve followed Tran’s culinary journey, it’s a milestone that can’t come soon enough.
Details: 405 Jim Wright Fwy.
Enchiladas Olé Express
Opening: Dec. 3, 2025
Bless Mary Patino Perez, who can’t seem to find a permanent home for her roving Tex-Mex concept and her newish barbecue biz, Holy Cue. Here’s hoping that’ll change with her latest spot. Her two concepts have come together under one roof at Cat City Grill’s old digs on Magnolia Avenue. There, Perez is serving her signature enchiladas and smoked brisket in a fast-casual setting, with great prices: There’s nothing priced over $16.
Details: 1208 W. Magnolia Ave., enchiladasole.com
Felina
Opening: First quarter of 2026
Felina is the next move from the Texas brothers behind Bocca Osteria Romana, the wonderful Italian restaurant found down a back alley in the South Main area. Opening early ‘26 in the former Funky Town Picnic space on Bryan Avenue, next door to Ichiro Izakaya, the new concept will offer a culinary snapshot of Alessandro and Alfonso Salvatore’s globe-trotting background — Texas-born, raised across Mexico, Italy, and Puerto Rico — with Italian cooking that wanders into Latin and Mediterranean territory. Alessandro, who was named Fort Worth Chef of the Year at the 2025 CultureMap Tastemaker Awards, says to expect a relaxed, neighborhood feel and a menu built around seasonal ingredients, wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizzas, and a custom-made trompo that will turn out everything from lamb to thinly sliced rib-eye. Vegetables will play a big role, along with housemade pastas, salads, and street-food items like panuozzo sandwiches — handhelds made with baked pizza dough. Drinks will include prosecco, cocktails, and natural wines on tap. Can’t wait for this one.
Details: 401 Bryan Ave., Ste.117, instagram.com/felina_fortworth
Micah and Jenna Kinard
Micah and Jenna Kinard of the upcoming Fort Worth Public Market
Fort Worth Public Market
Opening: Early May
Fort Worth’s Wilks Development is teaming up with local chef Jenna Kinard, her husband Micah, and Kansas City restaurateur Christian Moscoso to revive the historic Fort Worth Public Market with three new food/beverage concepts and an artisanal market. Known for her Southern-influenced cooking at Max’s Wine Dive and Jellico’s, Kinard will lead Madrone, a fine-dining restaurant built around tasting menus and seasonal Texas ingredients. The project will also include Willow, an upscale cocktail lounge, and Public Market Café & Goods, a community-focused cafe offering baked goods, coffee, and local products. The food and bev concepts are a part of Wilks’ multimillion reno of the nearly 100-year-old property.
Details: 1400 Henderson St., madronerestaurant.com
Fred's Texas Cafe
Opening: First quarter of '26
One of the city's longest running burger and beer hangouts is opening a new 4,800-square-feet location south of Fort Worth, in the suburb of Crowley, which really and truly could use a place as cool as Fred's. It'll mark the first time Fred's has ventured beyond its backyard. Expect the Fred's you know and love - Texana decor, excellent burgers, chicken-fried steaks that'll keep you full for a week, ice-cold beer - plus something a little extra: an authentic chuckwagon, right smack dab in the middle of the dining room. How Fred's is that?
Details: 100 S. Texas St., Crowley, fredstexascafe.com
H Mart
Opening: Spring
H Mart’s long-awaited first store in Tarrant County is slated to open in the spring as part of a massive 50-acre mixed-use development near Loop 820 and North Beach Street in Haltom City. Known for its extensive selection of Asian groceries and specialty goods, the popular chain — which already has locations in Carrollton and Plano — will be the centerpiece of the new plaza. Hoping to snag H Mart shoppers, dozens of new Asian-inspired restaurants will open throughout the plaza, including Chowdang Village, a Korean chain known for its sundubu-jjigae tofu and hot pots; It’s KBBQ and Shabu Shabu, an all-you-can-eat chain where apps and small plates come to your table via conveyor belt and servers cook Korean barbecue meats at your table; Lantern Thai Kitchen, a New York restaurant making its Texas debut; several coffee and dessert shops like SomiSomi and Hui Lau Shan; and 85°C, a beloved bakery making its second attempt at a Fort Worth-area store (a location in the Left Bank opened and closed a few years ago). Look for H Mart to open March/April.
Details: 3920 NE Loop 820, Haltom City, hmart.com
The Henry McCarty Irish Pub
Opening: First quarter of 2026
The long-vacant Cork & Pig Tavern space in The Artisan Circle/West 7th will soon be home to a new Irish pub — good news for those bummed by the recent closure of nearby Trinity College Irish Pub. McCarty’s takes its name from famed outlaw Billy the Kid, who was born Henry McCarty and was the son of Irish-Catholic immigrants, giving the concept a nod to Irish-American folklore. The pub comes from good stock: Owner Alan Kearney, a native Dubliner, is behind several successful North Texas Irish spots, including Patrick Kennedy’s Irish Pub and The Playwright Irish Pub, both in the Dallas area. At McCarty’s, expect a menu built around Irish comfort staples — fish and chips, corned beef and cabbage, full Irish breakfast — alongside an extensive lineup of Irish beers, whiskeys, and cocktails.
Details: 2869 Crockett St., thehenrymccarty.com
Kurogi Ramen & Sushi
Opening: Now open
Located about as far north as Fort Worth goes, up near Texas Motor Speedway, this family-run Japanese restaurant is a spinoff of the popular original in nearby Northlake. Sushi plays a big role on the menu, but it’s the ramen lineup that truly sets Kurogi apart. There are more than a dozen varieties, from classics like tonkotsu, miso and shoyu to more adventurous options such as chicken paitan and Nagasaki seafood ramen loaded with shrimp, calamari and mussels. Other uncommon flavors include the broth-less mazemen ramen and the karai miso made with kimchi.
Details: 3400 TX-114, kurogi23.com
One Trick Pony Pizza Tavern
Opening: First/second quarter of 2026
Pizza has been a huge trend in Fort Worth, so it’s no surprise another new spot is on the way. What is surprising is who’s behind it: Travis and Emma Heim, whose eponymous barbecue business - first a food truck, then a restaurant, and ultimately a local sensation - helped kick-start the city’s craft barbecue boom. In February 2024, the couple handed the restaurants' keys to to partner Will Churchill to focus on their family, but last year announced plans for a pizza concept that will take over the former Hot Box Biscuit Club space on South Main, just a few blocks from the original Heim Barbecue. According to CultureMap, the restaurant will serve New York- and tavern-style pizzas, along with sandwiches, burgers, craft cocktails, and martinis. Originally slated to open in 2025, the project is now expected to debut in '26.
Details: 313 S. Main St., instagram.com/onetrickponypizza
Partenope Ristorante
Opening: First quarter 2026
Pizza is coming back to 2949 Crockett St. — once home to the much-missed Fireside Pies — thanks to master pizzaiolo Dino Santonicola and his wife, Megan, who are opening a Fort Worth outpost of their acclaimed Dallas restaurant in Artisan Circle/West 7th. Santonicola hails from Naples, where he trained in the craft of true Italian pizza before making a name for himself in North Texas at Cane Rosso. In 2019, he and Megan branched out with their own concept, Partenope Ristorante, which has locations in downtown Dallas and Richardson. The Fort Worth restaurant will follow the same formula that has earned them a loyal following: a warm, family-friendly atmosphere and meticulous, old-world pies anchored by high-quality ingredients and traditional technique.
Details: 2949 Crockett St., partenopedallas.com
Shug's Bagels
Shug's Bagels
Shug's Bagels
Opening: Mid 2026
Dallas' bagel go-to spot is opening a location in west Fort Worth in the old J&G Oasis Beverage Center building, best known for its neon "Oasis Liquor" sign. Owner Justin Shugrue has made a name for himself for his New York-style bagels, in flavors such as jalapeño cheddar, French toast, and garlic, and other NY-inspired eats, including lox and egg. In addition to offering breakfast bites, Shug's will be open for lunch, too, serving deli-style sandwiches.
Details: 5101 Camp Bowie Blvd., shugsbagels.com
Top of the Morning Brunch House
Opening: Early 2026
Opening in the former Mash’d space in Artisan Circle/West 7th., is this all-day breakfast and brunch spot, spearheaded by Chicagoan Nick Roditis, who helped expand the Yolk brand across Dallas-Fort Worth, according to CultureMap. Look for dishes such as chicken & waffles done the old-school way, with bone-in chicken, to more luxe eats like a truffle steak sandwich. As did Mash’d, the restaurant will feature a large patio where diners can get a front row view of Artisan Square buffoonery.
Details: 2948 Crockett St., tombrunchhouse.com
