Chef Tim Love’s restaurant in west Fort Worth reopens after rains, flooding
Gemelle, chef Tim Love’s garden restaurant along the Trinity River banks west of Fort Worth, reopened Tuesday after a day of cleanup following heavy rains in the River District.
In an Instagram post after the rain Monday, the restaurant announced, “Stay tuned!”
Love wrote that stormwater filled the restaurant’s basement and damaged the electrical system. The dining room was undamaged, he wrote.
Gemelle is an Italian restaurant known since its 2019 opening for its Detroit-style pizza and lately for Love’s adjacent Hotel OTTO, featuring eight modular rooms.
The hotel was not affected, Love wrote.
Gemelle, 4400 White Settlement Road, is outside the West Fork of the Trinity River levee, but along river bottomland in a 75-year-old building that was originally a grocery and laundromat.
It survived the city’s record 1949 flood and has hosted a series of taverns and bars for more than 60 years, including a 1960s hangout named the Swamp Angel Lounge.
This story was originally published August 22, 2022 at 7:18 PM.
