Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/a>, One Trick Pony will serve thin, crispy tavern-style pizzas and cocktails from the ground floor of a 1926 brick building at 313 South Main Street. The space \u2014 a former biscuit and brunch spot at the corner of East Broadway Avenue \u2014 features picture windows, exposed brick, steel beams, and a layout that Travis Heim calls \u201csuper cool.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s such an awesome building,\u201d he told Bud Kennedy. \u201cWe\u2019ve wanted to do a pizza restaurant. When we saw the space, we thought this would be a good place for a bar and late-night hangout.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The tavern\u2019s menu will focus on New York\u2013inspired thin-crust pizza with a crispy edge, plus a few pasta dishes and a burger. Heim says he\u2019s been tinkering with pizza recipes for years \u2014 a way to mix things up after hours at the barbecue pit. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d get bored with barbecue,\u201d he admitted. A well-worn pizza oven in the Heim commissary kitchen has been his testing ground, with employees serving as taste-testers for what\u2019s coming next.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One Trick Pony marks the first solo venture from the Heims since stepping away from Heim Barbecue in early 2024. The couple launched their barbecue operation in 2015 from a food truck parked on East Hattie Street, on the site that\u2019s now home to Panther City BBQ\u2019s patio. They opened their first brick-and-mortar restaurant a year later in partnership with Will Churchill and his family, and the Churchill team now operates three Heim locations in Fort Worth and Dallas, with a fourth on the way in Weatherford.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved barbecue \u2014 I\u2019m proud of my accomplishments,\u201d Travis said. \u201cThis is an interesting new deal. We know restaurants and how to create a fun environment.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
And while the name One Trick Pony might sound like a wink at their barbecue legacy, Heim says the goal is simple: to build a pizza tavern where people want to hang out. With its gritty charm, cocktail program, and tavern-style slices, the place aims to be a neighborhood fixture by the time the winter holidays roll around.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The couple who helped put Fort Worth on the national barbecue map are back \u2014 but this time,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,2105,7371,7372,51140,18247,16564,988,46437,10763,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-73118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-food-and-drink","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-heim-barbecue","13":"tag-near-southside","14":"tag-pizza","15":"tag-restaurants","16":"tag-south-main","17":"tag-stephen-montoya","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-top-story","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114875239266095770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73118","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=73118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}