A Chicago-based restaurant will soon move into a space where a ridiculous number of other restaurants have fallen. Goat & Vine Restaurant + Winery is slated to open this spring at 2600 W. Seventh St., in the seemingly cursed end-cap spot where nearly a dozen other restaurants have failed, including Mac’s Steaks & Seafood, Bite City Grill, M Bistro, and the two-restaurants-in-one, Barrel & Bones Craft Bar & Smokehouse and Bourbon Street Oyster Bar & Grill.
Goat & Vine is an upscale concept with its own line of wines, available by the glass, bottle, or in flights. The food menu is a mix of Italian and American, with sandwiches, steaks, pastas, and soups and salads. Entrees include lobster ravioli, squid ink pasta, a burger topped with goat cheese, fig jam and kale, and gorgonzola gnocchi. Part of the We Are Hospitality restaurant group, Goat & Vine entered the North Texas market in 2021 with a location in Plano. Another store is opening in Allen, according to the restaurant’s website. For more info, visit goatandvinewinery.com.
The long-awaited Fort Worth location of the Truck Yard has finally opened in far north Fort Worth, at 3101 Prairie Vista Drive. In the works for years, but delayed by the pandemic, the spacious indoor/outdoor venue features food trucks, a honky-tonk-themed bar, a Ferris wheel, and enough rustic décor to open an antique shop; it’s dog- and family-friendly, to boot. The Fort Worth location joins three others in Dallas, Houston, and The Colony. There will be at least three food trucks on site, all day, every day. For a schedule of trucks, visit truckyardalliance.com.
The first location of the long-running Texas BBQ chain Soulman’s BBQ has opened in far south Fort Worth, at 4500 Sycamore School Road. Soulman’s serves old-school barbecue, not the newish craft stuff, with an emphasis on St. Louis-style pork spareribs, baked potatoes topped with your meat of choice, BBQ bowls stuffed with meat, fries, creamed corn and Fritos, and of course just regular ol’ sandwiches.
Soulman’s original location opened in 1974 in Pleasant Grove. Still family-owned by founder Don Hallett, the chain is now 19 locations strong, with stores in Allen, Cedar Hill, Forney, Red Oak, Rockwall, and other Texas cities. Smartly, they’re typically located right off the interstate. Especially in East Texas, where there are several locations, their highway-side billboards are practically Texas landmarks. soulmans.com
