A Terra two-step: Much-missed Mediterranean restaurant trades Plano for Fort Worth
Terra Mediterranean will reopen its popular Fort Worth restaurant within days but has closed a Plano restaurant, owner Adam Shanaa said this week.
The new Terra revives a popular all-you-can-eat Mediterranean buffet. It is expected to open as soon as mid-December at 2932 Crockett St. in the Artisan Circle shops off West Seventh Street.
Terra was one of the center’s busier restaurants for 10 years but closed in 2019, when the shopping center was named Crockett Row.
The new location is a half-block east of the old Terra in a former Italian restaurant, Brazilian churrascaria and sushi restaurant.
It’s across the street from the Shanaa and Chanaa families’ new La Cabrona, an interior Mexico restaurant and bar, 2933 Crockett St.
A Terra location in the Shops at Willow Bend shopping center in Plano has closed.
The family still has a Dallas-area restaurant, Ali Baba Mediterranean, in Richardson.
Terra’s announcement paired the closing and move. The Plano location was closed with “deep sadness,” the announcement said, but “has not reached the potential we envisioned for it.”
The statement added later: “ We’re excited to share that Terra Mediterranean in Fort Worth will be opening soon!”
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Dallas-based Younger Partners bought Artisan Circle last year and has tried to iron out the center’s long-standing problems.
Two anchor restaurants, Mash’d and Social House, have thrived. A Spanish restaurant, Si Tapas, opened next to La Cabrona.
“Nearly everyone we talked to asked if we could get Terra to return,” a Younger co-managing partner, Kathy Permenter, said in a written statement last year. “We are elated to bring a true Fort Worth favorite back.”
Artisan Circle restaurants are particularly popular due to their proximity to the annual Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, which starts Jan. 17.
