British gluten-free pub-restaurant returning to its original home in Colleyville
One of the region’s first gluten-free restaurant-pubs has a new home.
From Across the Pond will reopen back where it began in Colleyville, downsizing from a too-big cafe and sports bar on North Richland Hills’ timeworn restaurant row.
“It’s been a 5-year roller coaster of emotions,” Lee Herdman wrote on Facebook Sunday, closing the doors on his third location and moving by winter to the fourth.
With fewer families getting out for dinner, From Across the Pond has found new life doing gluten-free family meal delivery as far away as Plano and Burleson.
It’s helped draw new social-media followers and new customers to the restaurant, but not enough to fill the cavernous Bedford-Euless Road location.
The new location is 1101 Cheek Sparger Road, known for years as Amore Pizza and lately as Hometown Cafe.
That’ll be home base for From Across the Pond’s new business model of delivery and takeout weekdays, with limited dining weekends on a a small patio.
When From Across the Pond opened on Colleyville Boulevard in 2012, gluten-free dining was still a niche specialty and Herdman had the market almost all to himself.
It became known for shepherd’s pie, beef-and-ale stew and the largest gluten-free menu in Dallas-Fort Worth, long before every restaurant had special GF offerings.
Watch for it to open and follow From Across the Pond at https://www.facebook.com/Pondcrossers/.
This story was originally published August 26, 2020 at 5:45 AM.
