Fort Worth Italian fave makes Texas Monthly's latest best new restaurant list
Piattello Italian Kitchen, chef Marcus Paslay's southwest Fort Worth restaurant/cafe, is one of Texas Monthly's picks for best new restaurants in Texas.
The restaurant, which opened in January 2017 in the Waterside shopping center, slid in at No. 10 — no slouch in a state this big.
"I’m shocked — shocked — that the arancini here have not been designated a controlled substance," Texas Monthly food critic Patricia Sharpe writes. "You can tell by looking at people’s faces that these oozy fontina-filled risotto balls are addictive. Why, I saw whole families openly indulging, right there in the spacious dining room and on the deck out front."
The entry also praises the restaurant's range of offerings, from Roman-styled pizzas to more exotic offerings such as squid-ink bucatini with Gulf shrimp.
In her Star-Telegram review of Piattello, contributor Anna Caplan had similar praise, calling Piattello a remarkably unstuffy temple of stellar food and drink (an L-shaped coffee bar serves housemade pastries daily beginning at 7 a.m.), where innovative ingredients reign but pizza and eggplant Parmigiana can also be found on the menu. " Later in the review, she writes: "At three separate visits spread over a month, the only disappointment was that each meal had come to an end.."
Paslay's other Fort Worth restaurant, Clay Pigeon Food & Drink, earned an honorable mention on the magazine's 2015 list..
Two Dallas restaurants, Mediterranean-style Sachet on Oak Lawn and much buzzed-about downtown French spot Bullion, also made the list, at No. 3 and No. 5, respectively.
Houston's Xochi, a Oaxacan-inspired Mexican restaurant that features, among other items, eight varieties of mole dishes (including pork-rib meat in ant mole), topped the list. Houston dominated the list, with four restaurants making the cut; Austin has two and San Antonio has one on the list.
Piattello is at 5924 Convair Drive No. 412 in Fort Worth. For the full Texas Monthly list, go here.
This story was originally published February 19, 2018 at 3:16 PM with the headline "Fort Worth Italian fave makes Texas Monthly's latest best new restaurant list."