Yes, all these new restaurants are opening in Fort Worth, not closing
For a change, let’s talk about restaurants opening.
Two new restaurants will replace old favorites on the Near Southside, more good Tex-Mex is coming to Keller, and the dining business is exploding across the Fort Worth area even though older places are closing.
First, one warning: Never go to a new restaurant the day it opens, or even the week it opens. Wait for the looky-loo mob to subside.
• On West Magnolia Avenue, Enchiladas ¡Olé! will tentatively replace the old Cat City Grill.
It will combine casual Tex-Mex and barbecue, owner Mary Patino Perez said.
The new restaurant will mark the return of her popular enchilada restaurant with artisan sauces. It will include her Holy Cue barbecue.
The new Enchiladas ¡Olé! Express/Holy Cue Texican Bar-B-Q, 1208 W. Magnolia Ave., is projected to open by December, she said.
The current Holy Cue, 4307 Camp Bowie Blvd., will serve barbecue and Tex-Mex takeout until it closes at the end of November, she said.
Perez also helps promote Tia’s on the Bluff, downtown at 1301 E. Bluff St., where her brisket is smoked.
Tia’s serves the Sotelo family’s legacy enchiladas, chicken mole and carne guisada in a 130-year-old historic home.
• One block west on Magnolia Avenue, a restaurant named Due Italian has filed a vague application with no more details.
It will open in the former bar and patio side of Lili’s Bistro.
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• In Keller, the excellent Cristina’s Fine Mexican Restaurants will open at 1821 S. Main St., in the space left when the local Horizon 76 American Grill House moved.
The restaurant was originally a TGI Friday’s.
Cristina’s started in 1986 as Angelina’s in The Colony.
The first Cristina’s is still operating at 6424 Cross Timbers Road, Flower Mound, and the company now has 10 locations.
In a news release, Cristina Vargas said the family hopes to open the Keller location in March.
Horizon 76 moved in next door with Outpost 36. That restaurant is open and remains open for lunch and dinner Wednesdays through Sundays at 1801 S. Main St., Keller.
• Grutogi Bistro, a very highly rated breakfast and sandwich cafe from Flower Mound, has opened its second location In Keller.
It’s at 110 Lamar St., in a former wine shop in Old Town Keller.
Grutogi (”geuluteogi”) is a Korean word for a tree stump, often referring to a stool or a resting place.
Danny and Eun Seo’s restaurant gets near-perfect reviews from users of Yelp.com and Google.com for its relaxing atmosphere and panini sandwiches.
It’s open from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily except Sundays.
• Nearby in Old Town Keller, a new location of the wildly popular Wabi House ramen restaurant will open at 111 W. Vine St.
Wabi House started in Dallas as a Japanese ramen house and pub. Locations include a Fort Worth shop at 1229 Eighth Ave.
• In Southlake, a new location of the Dallas-based Hudson House “East Coast comfort food” restaurant will open in summer 2026.
Hudson House, 1131 E. Southlake Blvd. in Park Village, is a Hudson Valley-style restaurant serving mussels and lobster rolls but also known for a generous cheeseburger. The Fort Worth location is one of the city’s busiest.
• The Little Tavern, a smaller version of the Tavern restaurant in Fort Worth, is open at 517 University Drive in Fort Worth.
It’s a new name and completely different menu for owner Felipe Armenta’s former F1 restaurant.
The Little Tavern features salads, burgers and entrees from the Tavern restaurant on South Hulen Street, plus a full weekend brunch menu including blueberry pancakes.
• Oishii, a sushi and pan-Asian restaurant that has been popular in Dallas since 2003, is open and busy at 1664 S. University Drive.
The new “Oishii Colonial” location is in a strip shopping center near University Park Village. The vast sushi menu now also includes dumplings, salads, stir-fry dishes, pho and omakase.
Lunches include fried rice and an egg roll for $14-$20.
Oishii is open Monday through Saturday for lunch and dinner, Sunday for dinner.
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• Broadway 10 Bar & Chophouse, a major steakhouse from Oklahoma City, is finishing construction and is expected to open early in 2026 at 969 Commerce St.
• Buonissimo has been reported as opening in a former Italian restaurant space downtown at 150 Throckmorton St. in City Place.
• Beverly’s Mexican Cuisine, from the same team behind the flashy new Mont restaurant in the Montserrat neighborhood, is scheduled to open early in 2026 at 901 Houston St.
• In Burleson, a new Fuego Tortilla Grill from College Station is open at 955 N. Burleson Blvd.
• The Perkins Restaurant family diner chain, popular in the Midwest and Northeast, has announced a new location in Crowley.
No address was announced, so it could be anywhere between the Chisholm Trail Parkway and the South Freeway.
• In Parker County, Cork & Pig Tavern is near opening at 460 Shops Blvd. in Willow Park.
• A new Heim Barbecue location is expected to open the weekend of Nov. 8 at 1910 S. Main St., Weatherford.
• A new Pulido’s Mexican Kitchen will open by year’s end at 104 S. Ranch House Road, WIllow Park.
This story was originally published October 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM.
