58-year Tex-Mex favorite Pulido’s to return to Parker County in former ranch wear store
The reborn Pulido’s Kitchen & Cantina restaurants will remodel a former Western wear store in Willow Park into a new Pulido’s, co-owner Bourke Harvey said.
The shop at 104 S. Ranch House Road was recently a location of the Lazy J Ranch Wear shops and had previously been home to other Western wear shops, a tractor dealer and an RV dealership.
Pulido’s, founded in 1967 in Fort Worth by Dionicia and Pedro Pulido to feed his railyard co-workers, was sold last year to Westland Restaurant Group. Westland remodeled and reopened the original location at 2900 Pulido St.
Pulido’s also will operate a restaurant, Pulido’s Rodeo Kitchen, inside the Moncrief Building at the upcoming Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. It will serve enchiladas, tamales and tacos in the former La Espuela cafe space.
Westland Restaurant Group also owns JD’s Hamburgers, West Side Cafe and Curly’s Frozen Custard along with a second Pulido’s, 1224 Precinct Line Road, Hurst.
The company has also announced plans to reopen Margie’s Italian Gardens, 9805 Camp Bowie West Blvd., and to open La Iglesia, an upscale interior Mexico restaurant at 3420 Longvue Ave., along with a bar and grill, Fuel Stop 80, at 9813 Camp Bowie West Blvd.
The company did not keep former Pulido’s properties near Benbrook and in Cleburne.
The restaurant at 5051 Benbrook Highway has reopened as Don Melquias, joining locations in Acton and Joshua.
This story was originally published January 6, 2025 at 5:31 AM.
