The Wild Mushroom Steak House closes in Fort Worth

The Wild Mushroom Steak House and Lounge has closed in Fort Worth, chef/owner Jerrett Joslin tells our “Eats Beat” columnist, Bud Kennedy.

Joslin, whose restaurant experience stretches back to the still-missed downtown Fort Worth spot Randall’s Gourmet Cheesecakes, tells Kennedy that the Wild Mushroom’s location — in a strip shopping center on Winthrop Avenue, off Camp Bowie Boulevard on the west side — also had something to do with it.

People still want to go to downtown for high-end dining, Joslin told Kennedy, saying that his customers were awesome but that the Winthrop location was more suited to casual dining.

Speaking of cheesecakes, Joslin will start doing them at Vintage Grill & Car Museum, his Weatherford restaurant where he will now put his focus.

Wild Mushroom began its life in Weatherford in 2009. In late 2014, the restaurant moved to the Fort Worth location; Joslin told the Star-Telegram at the time that the majority of Wild Mushroom’s customers had come from Tarrant County, many for a taste of the cheesecake that they remembered from Randall’s.

The Winthrop Avenue location was previously home to Ray’s Prime Steak & Seafood, which lasted from 2010 to late 2013, and before that it was home to a couple of incarnations of Aventino’s Italian Restaurant — which is now in a new incarnation not far away at 5800 Lovell Ave.

This story was originally published February 24, 2016 at 12:05 PM with the headline "The Wild Mushroom Steak House closes in Fort Worth."