Tarrant restaurant Cafe 1187 temporarily closes due to chef’s injury
Cafe 1187, the little country cafe south of Benbrook Lake, announced via Facebook on Sunday that it has closed, at least temporarily, because chef Michele Tezak fell and broke her leg in two places.
“We have just the one chef and she is laid up until the doctor can get her back on her feet again, so I’m sorry to say we will have to close the Cafe for right now,” the post says. “Hopefully we can work something out to get reopened soon.”
Hi folks-I have some bad news to share today. Michele fell this morning and broke her leg in two places. We have just...
Posted by Cafe 1187 on Sunday, February 7, 2016
The closing comes just days before Valentine’s weekend, one of the busiest of the year for restaurants. And Cafe 1187 is typically open only on weekends, as well as having a lunch service on Thursdays. The small, off-the-beaten-path restaurant already had limited hours, with a sandwich-soup-and-salad lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday-Sunday and a more upscale comfort-food dinner from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
Cafe 1187 is in its 20th year on a horse ranch between Benbrook and Crowley. The New American menu of simple entrees and sides also features cakes and pies by Tezak. Mainly, the restaurant is known for its ranch house setting in the middle of spring blossoms off Farm Road 1187.
It[s roughly 20 minutes from downtown Fort Worth, and city residents as well as people who live nearby often made the trek for Tezak’s food and for the restaurant’s rural setting.
The restaurant was named for FM 1187, which runs from I-20 west of Fort Worth through Aledo and ends in Mansfield (if you’re eastbound, that is). The cafe is between U.S. 377 and Crowley.
Staff writer Bud Kennedy contributed to this report.
This story was originally published February 8, 2016 at 1:15 PM with the headline "Tarrant restaurant Cafe 1187 temporarily closes due to chef’s injury."