Meraki from chef Tim Love leads a spring wave of new Fort Worth restaurants
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- Meraki will open March 18; reservations accepted for dates after March 18.
- Meraki books lunch and dinner Monday–Saturday and lunch on Sunday via Tock.
- Meraki joins several recent regional openings across the Fort Worth area and nearby.
A new Mediterranean restaurant from nationally known chef Tim Love is about to make its debut, the latest in a sudden rush of grand openings in time for spring.
Meraki will open March 17 in the former restaurant and bar for a pickleball court at 1615 Rogers Road, according to the online reservations page at exploretock.com.
The restaurant is not yet listed on Love’s website. But Tock describes it as a Love restaurant with “the vibrant flavors of the Mediterranean” in a “sun-washed, coastal-inspired space.”
Meraki is taking reservations on March 17 and afterward for lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday and lunch Sunday.
Meraki joins these openings, all within days:
• The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque, 1600 E. Copeland Road, Arlington, is open daily. It’s a 7,900-square-foot Hill Country-style restaurant, the second Tarrant County location from the same family as top 10-ranked Hutchins BBQ.
• Bella Italia, 6115 Camp Bowie Blvd., is expected to open its new location in about a week. The 38-year westside Italian restaurant moved 1½ miles west when its former building was sold for a new Acquolina, an Aspen, Colorado, restaurant.
• Heim’s Pig Stand, 9904 Camp Bowie Blvd. West, is open as a food truck spinoff from the Heim Barbecue restaurants. It sells chopped beef or pulled pork sandwiches with a side dish for $13.
• Acquario Pizza Pasta & Bar, 967 Keller Parkway, Keller, is open as a Neapolitan-style pizzeria spinoff with an award-winning pizzaiolo. It’s from the owners of the upscale Acquario restaurant.
• Felina, 401 Bryan Ave., is open as a new Roman-style pizzeria from the owners of Bocca Osteria Romana.
• North Texas Smoke, 2803 U.S. 287, Decatur, is open in its new full-size restaurant location Wednesdays through Saturdays. It made the 2025 Texas Monthly top-50 list operating from a trailer.
This story was originally published March 13, 2026 at 4:21 AM.
