White Castle is coming to Fort Worth. Here’s what we know about the 2027 opening

White Castle, the slider burger chain with a cult following for its 2½-inch square hamburgers grilled with chopped onions, will open its first Fort Worth restaurant in the Chisholm Trail Ranch neighborhood, according to a state permit application.

The $2.1 million White Castle location will open in mid-2027 at 6013 Retail Way in the Shops at Chisholm Trail Ranch, according to the application filed in Austin.

The location will be the southernmost White Castle restaurant in the nation.

The chain was founded in 1921 in Kansas, but is now based in Columbus, Ohio. Currently, the closest White Castles are in the St. Louis or Phoenix areas.

The first Texas White Castle is under construction in Denton County at 4520 Destination Drive in the Marketplace shopping center.

White Castle is considered the nation’s first fast-food hamburger stand.

It opened in Wichita, Kansas, the same year when the Pig Stand, considered the first drive-in restaurant, opened at what is now 4700 W. Davis St. on the west edge of Dallas.

White Castle also serves fried chicken and fried fish sliders, and even a soy-based Impossible Burger.

For sides, White Castle has french fries, mozzarella sticks, onion rings and chicken rings. White Castle also serves bacon-and-egg breakfast sliders along with Belgian waffle sliders.

White Castle sliders are the same size as those at Krystal Burgers, a Tennessee-based chain that is now Texas-owned. But the two burgers are cooked and topped differently.