First came B&B steaks. Then Soy Cowboy sushi. Next: An old-time Fort Worth soda shop?
B&B Butchers was the first big-name anchor restaurant in the Shops at Clearfork, and founder Benjamin Berg isn’t stopping there.
With a new enclosed patio coming to B&B and a new pan-Asian steak-and-sushi restaurant open in Arlington, Berg’s Houston-based company has staked out the Fort Worth area as its second home.
Coming next: Maybe a Fort Worth location of the Buttermilk Baby, a nostalgic soda shop with biscuits, burgers, chicken tenders and Carvel soft-serve.
“It’s a real family-friendly place,” Berg said on a recent Eats Beat Live streaming show.
Clearfork is one location he’s considering, he said. He joked that he’s looking for more Fort Worth opportunities because a daughter now goes to TCU and “she needs a place to have lunch.”
Six years after the opening of B&B Butchers, 5212 Marathon Ave., and the old-time Butcher Shop and sandwich deli next door, B&B is enclosing and weatherizing the patio along Gage Avenue.
B&B has a separate following for lunch, happy hour, dinner and weekend brunch, and customers at all times of the day want to enjoy the pleasant patio.
The Butcher Shop has picked up a following as a daily sandwich deli open until 7 p.m. daily, hours after local mainstays such as Carshon’s and Yogi’s have closed for the day.
The Butcher Shop is selling its Thanksgiving dinner to go with $99 smoked turkeys, prime rib, cornbread stuffing, sides, soup and pies.
B&B is open for lunch and dinner daily; 817-737-5212, bbbutchers.com The Butcher Shop is open for lunch and early dinner daily and lunch Sundays; 817-731-5360.
Berg’s new success is Soy Cowboy, in the Loews Arlington hotel at 888 Nolan Ryan Expressway across from the Texas Live! complex.
The restaurant was billed as pan-Asian but has drawn customers for sushi and sashimi, dim sum and wagyu beef steaks.
Since it opened, Soy Cowboy has added a brunch menu with Korean chcken and waffles, blueberry pancakes, orange chicken or Korean barbecue ribs.
Soy Cowboy opens at 9 a.m. before noon games at AT&T Stadium.
But it’s popular even when there’s no game.
“It’s really amazing to us, the amount of people that are in that big sports entertainment complex when there’s no events going on,” Berg said.
Soy Cowboy has also added its own valet parking so patrons can steer clear of the busy Loews valet, he said.
It’s open for dinner weekdays, brunch and dinner weekends; 817-766-6444, soycowboy.com.
This story was originally published November 5, 2024 at 5:30 AM.
