Inzo Italian in Fort Worth, Roanoke offers more than pizza

In a metropolitan area suddenly spinning with artisan pizzas, Inzo Italian Kitchen Pizza & Wine is expanding its full Italian menu.

Originally a South Hulen Street wine bistro known for founding chef Daniele Puleo’s pizzas, Inzo has added veal, lamb, seafood and brunch items to its menu under two-year owner “Tony” Khalek.

Khalek left business management to buy the Inzo locations in Fort Worth and Roanoke, keeping Puleo’s recipes but adding a wider selection.

So far, so good: He says he is looking for a suburban location for Inzo No. 3.

He expanded Inzo’s menu to compete with larger Italian restaurants and because “that’s what the customers want here on Hulen,” he said — “they want more than pizza.”

The eggplant Parmigiana and lasagna now are joined by a pork chop Marsala, lamb chops and a “pizza salad sandwich,” basically an open-face sandwich that can be folded over.

There’s a lighter flatbread now along with the pizzas, and the prices remain in the bargain range: $10-$15 for meals, about $40 for a light dinner for two with wine, and Tuesday two-for-$20 specials on the artisan brick-oven pizzas.

A new brunch menu features eggs Benedict, a panini, a piadina and smoked salmon. The wide selection of desserts includes a lemon-mascarpone cake.

“It’s not like we’ve made any major changes — all we’ve done is complete the menu,” Khalek said.

Customers come from Southlake and Grapevine to the Roanoke store, he said, and from as far as Weatherford to the Fort Worth location.

Inzo Italian Kitchen is open daily for lunch and dinner at 2747 S. Hulen St., Fort Worth, 817-924-2749, and 101 S. Oak St., Roanoke, 817-890-4280. inzoitalian.com

Not ‘hot now’ but soon

Nobody is quite sure when the oft-delayed Krispy Kreme on Westworth Boulevard will open, but it won’t be long.

Watch for it at 6700 Westworth Blvd. in the Shoppes at Hawks Creek; krispykreme.com.

Can’t keep the Clown down

Update on the beloved Clown Burger in Haltom City: It will reopen June 1 under owner Bill Louthan’s daughter Kari Negrete.

Louthan has hung up his spatula after 53 years, turning the business over to family members who grew up in the tiny nostalgia stand on Stanley Keller Road (and revere the memory of the East Belknap Street original).

Clown Burger, a very old-fashioned thin-patty burger grill filled with 1950s Americana, returns to its regular (sometimes irregular) hours next month, maybe adding Saturday hours: 5020 Stanley Keller Road, 817-831-8015, facebook.com/ClownBurger.

This story was originally published May 16, 2016 at 5:42 PM with the headline "Inzo Italian in Fort Worth, Roanoke offers more than pizza."