Tinies chef, DeChambeau team for new Fort Worth golf-restaurant to challenge Topgolf
Accomplished Fort Worth chef Christian Lehrmann will branch out to add a restaurant in a new golf entertainment venue opening in 2024, a partnership with Westworth Village at the city-owned Hawks Creek Golf Club.
Lehrmann, chef at Tinies restaurant in South Main Village, will join Dallas pro Bryson DeChambeau, the champion of Saudi-based LIV Golf, and partners to open UnderPar Life, a new golf-party-food-and-bar startup company.
The center, adjacent to the current clubhouse at 6520 White Settlement Road, will pair a 100-seat upstairs restaurant and bar with a sprawling burger grill and outdoor patio, plus 42 hitting bays and a practice area, according to the proposal approved by council members.
In 2021, the company presented the deal to Westworth Village leaders claiming it would be comparable to Dallas-based Topgolf.
“I’m doing this number one, because I’m an avid golfer, and number two, because the idea is to make this a neighborhood destination,” Lehrmann said last week.
The UnderPar Life restaurant tentatively will be named Bombers.
That’s a nod to the days of intercontinental bombing missions from what is now a U.S. Navy joint reserve air base nearby.
The restaurant will overlook a Trinity River tributary named Farmers Branch, 1 mile west of the Airfield Falls public park and waterfall.
“We’re breaking the mold and starting something new here,” Lehrmann said..
Besides Tinie’s, Lehrmann also oversees the limited bar menu at Sidesaddle Saloon in the Stockyards’ Mule Alley.
He also opened and was the chef at Courtside Kitchen, a restaurant, sports bar and-pickleball center on Rogers Road off South University Drive near Interstate 30.
The UnderPar Life restaurant will be more extensive than Courtside Kitchen’s, Lehrmann said.
His primary restaurant remains Tinies, 113 S. Main St., which opened March 10, 2020, a week before COVID pandemic shutdowns began.
The restaurant is a partnership with Taco Heads founder Sarah Castillo, a fellow golfer.
The new fall menu at Tinies includes crispy octopus with chimichurri; a pork chop with green mole sauce; a lamb shank with mole sauce and Oaxacan polenta; and a “chicken-stuffed chicken” with poblano chicken sausage, hominy and green chiles.
Tinies is open for dinner Mondays through Saturdays and brunch weekends; 682-255-5425, tiniesfw.com.
This story was originally published October 30, 2023 at 5:30 AM.
