{"id":19243,"date":"2025-06-27T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19243\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:13:09","slug":"fort-worth-july-restaurant-openings-and-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19243\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth July Restaurant Openings and Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d been wondering if the old Shinjuku Station space in the Near Southside would ever be occupied again. Yoichi<\/strong> just answered my question. Opening later this summer, this new Japanese spot will be the city\u2019s first omakase restaurant \u2014 a style of dining similar to a prix-fixe or tasting menu in which you pay one price to be served dishes of the chef\u2019s choosing; you sort of leave yourself in the hands of the chefs. You\u2019ll be in good hands, though. According to CultureMap, owners Ian Kim, Ilwon Suhr, and Mark Kim are all expats from Crown Block, Reunion Tower\u2019s sky-high restaurant. Suhr also owned Fujiyama, a sushi restaurant in Carrollton, and Kim worked as a chef at Sushi by Scratch, an omakase restaurant at the Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, according to CultureMap. The restaurant\u2019s 12-course omakase menu will consist of various forms of sushi and sashimi maki, two appetizers, and a dessert. Look for it in July or August. 711 W. Magnolia Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another Japanese concept will open in the same area this summer, just a few blocks away. Ichiro Izakaya Diner and Bar<\/strong> is taking over a portion of the Bryan Avenue space that Funky Town Picnic Brewery & Cafe recently vacated. The restaurant will share walls with a still-unnamed new concept from brothers Alessandro and Alfonso Salvatore, the owners of Bocca Osteria Romana. Alessandro says the restaurant will revolve around Neapolitan-style pizza with some Caribbean and Mexican influences. Both restaurants will open sometime later this summer or early fall at 401 Bryan Ave.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Opened this April, The Yard at Bowie House<\/strong> is the luxury boutique hotel\u2019s chill new outdoor restaurant. Developed by the resort\u2019s executive chef Antonio Votta, the menu includes dishes large and small, from shareables like pita chips and dip and fresh oysters to bowls and burgers. Every Thursday, there\u2019s live music. aubergeresorts.com\/bowiehouse\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Restaurants come and go \u2014 that\u2019s the nature of the food and bev business. But lately there\u2019s been a rash of high-profile closings that\u2019s beginning to make me wonder if we\u2019re heading into a culinary recession of sorts. Among those that have recently closed include the excellent pizza joint Pizza Verde<\/strong>; two very good Southern comfort restaurants, the long-running Old Neighborhood Grill<\/strong> on the south side and Campfire Grill<\/strong> in Watauga; Ben Merritt\u2019s<\/a> fine dining west side spot The Fitzgerald<\/strong>; Lili\u2019s Bistro<\/strong> on Magnolia, which had been open 20 years; the Arlington location of Bodacious BBQ<\/strong>, open for 40 years; and the list goes on. Each closure is a painful loss, a favorite dish we\u2019ll never taste again. But even in this question mark of an economy, the spirit of our food community flickers. Maybe from these ashes, new flavors will emerge. The question isn\u2019t whether we\u2019ll mourn what\u2019s lost, because we will, but how we\u2019ll cultivate what\u2019s next.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019d been wondering if the old Shinjuku Station space in the Near Southside would ever be occupied again.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,18119,18120,2105,18121,7371,7372,18122,18123,988,5921,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-19243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-chowtown","10":"tag-cuisine","11":"tag-food-and-drink","12":"tag-foodies","13":"tag-fort-worth","14":"tag-fortworth","15":"tag-local-food","16":"tag-malcolm-mayhew","17":"tag-restaurants","18":"tag-style","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-top-story","21":"tag-tx","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114755748881985459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19243","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=19243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}