A new Hoffbrau Steak & Grill is opening in Tarrant County. Here’s where
Hoffbrau Steak & Grill House, a midprice steakhouse known for platters and steaks starting at under $20, has bought a tavern and pub in Grapevine to open its third Tarrant County location.
Hoffbrau will replace a location of Houston-based Brick House Tavern and Tap at 700 Texas 114 West in a 30-year-old building that operated for years as the county’s first Romano’s Macaroni Grill.
Brick House Tavern remains open through June, Hoffbrau owner Rainey Fogiel said.
Hoffbrau will bring a menu of less expensive steaks, chicken-fried steaks, catfish and burgers to a Grapevine market dominated by more expensive prime steakhouses.
It’s the right time.
“People are downsizing to chicken-fried steaks,” Fogiel said. “The same people who used to get a rib-eye, now they get a chicken-fried steak. It’s become our top seller.”
Hoffbrau offers chicken-fried steak three ways: with pepper gravy, with jalapeno gravy or the “Cowtown” with a pepper Jack chile relleno and pico de gallo. All are less than $20, with the basic chicken-fried selling for less than $15 at lunch.
The restaurant also offers sliced smoked sirloin, sausage, chicken and ribs with a Dr Pepper barbecue sauce, along with thick cheeseburgers and other home-cooking items.
Hoffbrau’s other locations are in Benbrook, Haltom City, Amarillo and Granbury.
The company is still looking for a new location in Fort Worth to replace the flagship South University Drive restaurant that closed last year, Fogiel said.
Plans for a Mansfield location have been delayed over construction costs, she said.
Hoffbrau, originally inspired in 1978 by a small Austin steakhouse known for lemon-butter-brushed steaks and an olive vinaigrette dressing, has operated a Bedford location but has never opened in Grapevine, a tourist town with an appetite for Texas-themed restaurants.
“Grapevine has so much going on, and it’s a great location on the freeway” next to Pappadeaux Seafood, Fogiel said.
The restaurant needs minor changes and may be open by fall, she said.
This story was originally published June 17, 2022 at 11:22 AM.
