{"id":177633,"date":"2025-08-26T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177633\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:56:18","slug":"drews-place-fort-worth-soul-food-landmark-fried-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177633\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew\u2019s Place Fort Worth Soul Food Landmark & Fried Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a city where the smoke from backyard pits and the sizzle of brisket on the grill have long marked Fort Worth\u2019s culinary heartbeat, few restaurants have captured the city\u2019s soul like Drew\u2019s Place<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Since 1987, Drew and Stephanie Thomas have been serving up southern-fried staples\u00a0in a bustling corner of Fort Worth\u2019s Como neighborhood, turning a former dentist\u2019s office into a gathering place where generations of local\u00a0families have celebrated milestones, shared stories, and savored the flavors of home. This week, Drew\u2019s Place cemented its spot\u00a0in American food history: it\u2019s one of 50 small restaurants nationwide to receive a $50,000 grant from American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, honoring it as a true culinary and cultural landmark.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For locals, Drew\u2019s Place sits alongside Fort Worth icons like Carshon\u2019s Deli, Joe T. Garcia\u2019s, and the Paris Coffee Shop \u2014 a testament to its status as a city staple. The restaurant\u2019s story begins in Forest Hill, where the first iteration of Drew\u2019s Soul Food opened its doors. The move to Como brought the restaurant into a 1960s dentist\u2019s office, \u201ccomplete with a lattice roof, rock wall, and other elements of midcentury modern decor, most of which the couple has kept intact,\u201d our food writer Malcolm Mayhew pointed out in Feb.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more than three decades, Drew\u2019s Place has become synonymous with Southern comfort food. Their crunchy fried chicken is legendary, converting first-timers into regulars with every bite. However, the menu itself extends well beyond the chicken: smothered pork chops, chicken-fried steak, collard greens, broccoli rice cheese casserole, cornbread, and other housemade staples recall the kind of home-cooked meals that define Texas comfort food. And for dessert, the sweet potato pie is a tender, sweet punctuation to a perfect meal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Drew\u2019s acclaim stretches beyond Fort Worth. The restaurant has appeared in numerous publications, including\u00a0ours, where the local eatery\u00a0earned the coveted cover of\u00a0our February 2025 issue. \u00a0<\/p>\n

This\u00a0initiative \u2014\u00a0which\u00a0is in its fifth year \u2014\u00a0has invested over $8 million in 180 restaurants across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, supporting family-owned establishments that preserve culinary traditions while nurturing their local communities, according to a release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Madge Thomas, Head of Corporate Sustainability at American Express, shared, \u201cOur 2025 grantees reflect the deep-rooted food traditions that define American communities, and we hope these grants spark ripple effects that sustain them in the future.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Drew\u2019s Place\u00a05701 Curzon Ave., Fort Worth, TX, drewssoulfoodfwtx.site<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a city where the smoke from backyard pits and the sizzle of brisket on the grill have…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,61781,7371,7372,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-177633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-drew","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-top-story","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115096361038902060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}