Steaks, seafood on menu for new downtown Fort Worth restaurant. Here’s a peek
The new Station & Vine prime steakhouse and wine bar will open within weeks, and it’s definitely a step up from the old downtown Fort Worth train station cafe.
Station & Vine is moving into the concourse of the 1931-vintage Fort Worth T&P commuter rail station and T&P Lofts at 221 W. Lancaster Ave.
It’s a full-service restaurant operated by Dallas-based Edible Ideas, which also has a rental hall and wedding space inside the station’s grand old waiting room next door.
Station & Vine’s menu is much more elaborate than expected:
- Prime New York strip or top sirloin steaks, including an ancho-honey crusted sirloin flap.
- Shrimp, oysters, mussels and seafood tagliatelle.
- A dry-aged beef bacon cheeseburger.
- And desserts such as a seven-layer “tuxedo” chocolate ganache cake.
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In July 2024, when Fort Worth-based Trinity Metro bought the historic restaurant and patio in the old Texas & Pacific Railway Terminal, officials hinted that it might become a major downtown restaurant and banquet room.
Edible Ideas also rents wedding venues such as Belle Manor near Burleson and Classic Oaks near Mansfield.
The company also operates Exhibit Cafe in the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.
The 5,400-square-foot ballroom, formerly the Texas & Pacific Railway Terminal Main Waiting Room, is one of Fort Worth’s most photographed landmarks.
It has 35-foot ceilings, ornate chandeliers and classic Art Deco architecture from the 1920s Zigzag Moderne period of New York City’s Empire State Building and Chrysler Building.
When the last restaurant closed in July 2024 after 14 years, it still looked basically the same as it did from 1931 to 1969, when it served eastbound and westbound passengers on a concourse that hosted celebrities such as President Harry Truman and singer Elvis Presley.
