Popular southside Fort Worth restaurant reopens, adds Sunday hours
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- Old Neighborhood Grill reopens with Sunday breakfast and lunch service added.
- New owner Mazen Haddad retains menu and staff while upgrading interiors.
- Future plans include TV installations, online ordering, and dessert expansions.
The Old Neighborhood Grill, a busy Fort Worth family restaurant for nearly 30 years near the Fort Worth Zoo, has reopened after a short break and has added breakfast and lunch service on Sundays.
The restaurant, 1633 Park Place in Park Place Village, is offering basically the same menu of inexpensive lunch and dinner platters, burgers and seafood, cooked and served by many of the same staffers.
New owner Mazen Haddad added fresh paint and flooring. He also plans to install TVs in one room for watching TCU or Dallas Cowboys games, he said.
Old Neighborhood Grill is open all day weekdays and Saturdays from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. It’s a convenient stop before early TCU football games or after midday games.
It has added new Sunday hours from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., bringing the Near Southside another locally owned Sunday breakfast or lunch option.
Burger platters with fries sell for about $10-$11. Dinner platters with sides cost about $14-$15, and lunch specials with sides cost about $13.
The restaurant, open since 1996 and founded by experienced cafe owner Peter Schroder, was once recognized on a Texas Monthly list of the state’s best breakfasts.
In a 2006 review, the Star-Telegram wrote that like the older Paris Coffee Shop on the south side, Old Neighborhood Grill is a “simple but beloved establishment, distinguished by its faithful clientele.”
The location east of the zoo’s Forest Park Boulevard entrance had been a restaurant since 1959, when it opened as Park Place Cake Shop. In the 1970s, it gained a reputation for hamburgers as Rick’s Lockerroom.
Haddad said he will add cinnamon rolls from another of his restaurants, Ginger Brown’s Old Tyme Restaurant & Bakery in Lake Worth. When more equipment arrives, he will add the pies from his Moe’s Cafes, JR’s and Benbrook Diner.
Online ordering and the website, ongwebsite.godaddysites.com, will be restored soon, he said.
The Haddad family has operated local restaurants for 25 years, starting with now-gone Summers Cafe on the Jackboro Highway. The Haddads opened the first Moe’s in 2004 and have expanded it to three locations in far north Fort Worth, Azle and River Oaks.
Haddad bought Ginger Brown’s in 2023 and has kept basically the same menu and baked goods Brown had served since 1986.
This story was originally published September 3, 2025 at 4:51 AM.
