A Fort Worth food truck known for BBQ in bourbon sauce will open a west side restaurant
The chef behind a popular barbecue-and-burgers food truck will open a west Fort Worth restaurant and expand to a full dinner menu with steaks, wines and cocktails.
Fort Redemption, chef Tony Chaudhry’s four-year venture known for ¾-pound cheeseburgers and brisket with gourmet sauces such as bourbon-cream, will expand its menu and open at 5724 Locke Ave. near Camp Bowie Boulevard.
Chaudhry, a veteran of local steakhouses and fine-dining restaurants, said he loves barbecue but wants to expand dinner business with a midprice menu of entrees and fine wines.
“This is not going to be a corporate restaurant,” he said the other day in former taqueria space two blocks south of Interstate 30 near Horne Street.
“This is going to be something directly for Fort Worth.”
Chaudhry’s truck, Fort Redemption BBQ, has operated from Truck Yard Alliance to Aledo and was popular at breweries and at late-night locations in the hospital district.
He has worked in high-end Fort Worth restaurants for years but hadn’t tried to come up with his own barbecue until a friend gave him a smoker about four years ago, Chaudhry said.
Brisket mac-and-cheese is his No. 1 seller, he said, along with the huge burgers and plates or sandwiches of brisket or pulled pork with the bourbon or red wine sauces.
“It’s a little take on mixing Texas with French sauces,” he said.
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But at dinner, Fort Redemption will switch gears and serve steaks with cocktails and wine.
The location is good for lunch, near Szechuan Chinese Restaurant and across Camp Bowie Boulevard from a future La La Land Kind Cafe coffee shop.
The nearest barbecue restaurants are both more than 1½ miles away: Riscky’s Bar-B-Q and the Railhead Smokehouse.
The neighborhood has several seafood and Italian restaurants, but the closest midprice steakhouse is probably Lucile’s in Arlington Heights.
Chaudhry, born in the southern Russia city of Astrakhan about halfway between Moscow and Tehran, has lived in west Fort Worth since childhood. His mother is nationally known custom Western wear fashion designer Vera Vasiley of Fort Worth.
This story was originally published July 12, 2024 at 5:30 AM.
