{"id":75571,"date":"2025-07-19T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75571\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:25:16","slug":"texas-barbecue-family-plans-pizza-and-martini-bar-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75571\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas barbecue family plans pizza and martini bar in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The founders of Heim Barbecue in Fort Worth plan to open One Trick Pony, a martini bar and pizza restaurant, a few blocks from where they started their first business.<\/p>\n

A decade ago, Travis and Emma Heim smoked brisket from a food truck just south of Interstate 30, in Fort Worth\u2019s Southside neighborhood. The Heims grew their business into a permanent restaurant, now with three locations in Fort Worth and Dallas. They stepped away from daily operations in 2024<\/a> while they focused on their two little girls, ages 2 and 4.<\/p>\n

One Trick Pony brings the Heim family back into restaurants \u2014 and back to the Southside neighborhood. Travis Heim\u2019s roots here are decades deep, as his grandmother grew up in a house on Hattie Street nearby.<\/p>\n

The menu at One Trick Pony is focused on Chicago tavern-style pizzas, which are thin crust and cut into square pieces. Heim is eager to make family-friendly food minus the long cook times typical in barbecue. <\/p>\n

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Heim laughs. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t take 16 hours to cook a pizza, which is nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his so-called retirement, the Heims talked about opening a burger joint. They settled upon another \u201cfun and playful\u201d idea, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMartinis and pizza: What more could you want?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"OneOne Trick Pony will sell Chicago tavern-style pizzas, which have a thin, blistered crust. (Travis Heim)<\/p>\n

And does the name One Trick Pony imply that this barbecue family is ready to prove itself beyond the smoker, I asked?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d get bored and do pizzas at the barbecue place. Or at the house.\u201d Now, he\u2019s trying it full-time.<\/p>\n

As a dad of two, he said the restaurant will be accessible to kids. He plans to add cheese sticks and chicken strips to the menu. <\/p>\n

Beyond thin-crust pizzas, One Trick Pony will also sell a New York-style pie.<\/p>\n

The restaurant space, formerly Hot Box Biscuit Club, is a nearly 100-year-old building with exposed brick and steel beams. From the semicircle window in front, Heim can look out on a neighborhood he loves and see more of the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially at night,\u201d he said, \u201cyou can see all of the downtown Fort Worth skyline.\u201d<\/p>\n

One Trick Pony is at 313 S. Main St., Fort Worth. Expected to open in fall 2025, at first, for dinner and late-night drinks only.<\/p>\n

Anna Butler contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founders of Heim Barbecue in Fort Worth plan to open One Trick Pony, a martini bar and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,26874,52560,9604,7371,7372,11213,9733,9063,988,9207,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-75571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-barbecue","10":"tag-bars-and-cocktails","11":"tag-entrepreneurs","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-fortworth","14":"tag-italian-food","15":"tag-restaurant-news","16":"tag-restaurant-openings","17":"tag-restaurants","18":"tag-small-business","19":"tag-texas","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\/114880362861282674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75571","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=75571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}