A Fort Worth restaurant will be on ‘Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives’ for its Bolo Burger
Fred’s Texas Cafe in Fort Worth co-stars with TV’s Guy Fieri again this week,.
And this time the show is full of bologna.
Fifteen years after Fred’s was introduced to America on “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” the new-generation Fred’s will turn up the heat Aug. 23-24 on DDD’s “Triple D Nation.”
This time, Fieri visited the north Fort Worth Fred’s, 2730 Western Center Blvd., and showcased the sourdough-battered chicken-fried steak and also one of Fred’s 20 hamburgers, the “Bolo Burger.”
It’s a classic Fred Burger, but with a thick slice of smoked and grilled bologna and barbecue sauce, plus onion strings on top.
Fred’s owner Quincy Wallace can’t talk about the show until it streams. But here’s the promo for Season 6, Episode 7, streaming at 8 p.m. Aug. 23 and 11 p.m. Aug. 24, titled “Bacon, Burgers and Pork Butt:”
“In Fort Worth, Texas, cowboy cookin’ is killin’ it with a chuckwagon chicken-fried steak and a next-level burger with a bologna twist.”
That means Fieri is talking about Fred’s straight-up menu items.
In the 2009 show, Fred’s was praised for two specials: a rib-eye steak with chipotle brown butter and a green chlle lamb stew.
That episode of “Diners, Drive-Ins and DIves,” viewable on the Max streaming service, is titled “All Kinds of Classics.” It was taped in 2008 at the old Fred’s location on Currie Street.
That restaurant has been replaced by a Fred’s at 7101 Camp Bowie Blvd. West.
Fieri said when he walked up, he thought Fred’s looked like “a little more of a saloon.”
Fred’s is also building a new location in old downtown Crowley The third location for the 46-year-old Texas-themed burger cafe will open at 100 N. Texas St. in the south Tarrant County town’s Crowley Crossing business district.
Fred’s opened in 1978 when founders Gari and J.D. Chandler took over a ramshackle cafe built in what was then an industrial area off West Seventh Street after the 1949 Fort Worth flood.
In 1990, son Terry Chandler came back from the Marines, and Fred’s came to life as a counterculture burger hangout.
Wallace and Terry Chandler brought a free-wheeling mindset, adding late hours, more drinks, spicier dishes and the restaurant’s signature “Fred Burger” and hotter “diablo” and poblano burgers.
Chandler described Fred’s as a “blue-collar greasy spoon with a lot of white-collar infiltrators.”
This story was originally published August 20, 2024 at 5:30 AM.
