Chef Tim Love’s newest restaurant has a dress code — and rules about phones, too
Chef Tim Love’s newest restaurant turns the Stockyards upside down.
To start with, Caterina’s is a fine-dining Italian restaurant serving $64 lobster and a shareable $149 New York strip steak, a price level matching his 20-year anchor Lonesome Dove Western Bistro.
Then, there are two drastic shocks for Cowtown diners:
▪ Jackets are required, making Caterina’s the first Fort Worth restaurant to enforce a dress code since La Piazza closed three years ago.
▪ Phones are banned. Like at concerts, they’re put in a locked pouch that a staffer can unlock if needed.
Both rules add to the exclusivity at Caterina’s, 128 E. Exchange Ave. across Mule Alley from Love’s Tannahill’s music hall and Paloma Suerte restaurant.
Love called the phone-less dining room atmosphere “truly amazing.”
“Tables talking to tables — [patrons] making new friends — the vibe is so great,” he wrote in a weekend message.
Caterina’s has a wired “house phone” in case someone has an urgent call, he said.
Even patrons who were reluctant “leave stating how surprised they are and happy” that diners are not on their phones, he wrote.
It’s open from 4 p.m. nightly for dinner; 682-267-0812, caterinasftx.com.
This story was originally published July 28, 2022 at 10:54 AM.
