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A joyful noisesymphonic music for the soul

lifting the spiritsMarty leonard Community Chapel’s

inspiring architecture

the pAstry pAtrolA volunteer’s day-and-night effort

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Christ Chapel orchestra makes a joyful noise 7

LOCAL LUMINARYVolunteer Pam Johndroetakes on pastry patrol 11

LOCAL LANDMARKMarty Leonard Community Chapel inspires with its soaring beauty 15

HOMEDoor decor says ‘welcome’

for the holidays 18

FOOD/DRINKBella Italia’s chef Croci —

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ith Thanksgiving behind us and the winter holidays fast approaching, it’s a good time to focus on places and people right here, where you live. As the days grow shorter and festivities get in gear, we take a look at what’s going on in the 76107 ZIP code.

The Christ Chapel Bible Church Sanctuary Orchestra celebrates out loud, every season, every Sunday. The symphony orchestra performs at the 11 a.m. service and also puts on two concerts and a Christmas Cantata every year. For the congregation, it’s a chance to hear beautiful music played by professionals (or near-professionals). For the musicians, it’s a way to give back.

Have you ever sat on the Central Market patio or stood on the parking lot gazing up at the dramatic architecture of the Marty

Leonard Community Chapel? We take you up close and inside the building designed by award-winning architect E. Fay Jones to inspire.

Pam Johndroe serves in her own way. For more than eight years, the Rivercrest resident has made daily trips to Starbucks at closing time to pick up unsold pastries. Bright and early the next morning, she delivers them to the Ronald McDonald House to be enjoyed by families of children receiving hospital treatment.

Holiday wreaths welcome visitors and set the stage for a joyful

atmosphere. Local designers share their ideas and imagination with wreaths decorated with live plants, ornaments and even antique silver.

At Bella Italia, chef Carlo Croci offers wild game and, in season, produce he grows himself in a garden out front. Since 1988, he has carried on the culinary tradition of his native Tuscany in his Camp Bowie Boulevard restaurant, a setting that’s as traditional as the cuisine.

Finally, turn to New & Notable to learn what all that construction dust amounts to: new landscaping at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, a completely revamped patio (more like an open-air room) at Fred’s Texas Cafe and several soon-to-open restaurants. By all means, savor the season.

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Holiday wreaths set the scene, and a big red bow adds splash to this one, made of air plants.

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eople talk and laugh in the sanctuary of Christ Chapel Bible Church before the 11 a.m. service.

Onstage, musicians warm up on violins and oboes, flutes and trumpets and trombones.

As the orchestra plays “Canon on the Love of God,” the first prelude number, congregants continue to chat. By the time the second tune, “Farandole on Glorious Name,” sounds, the chatter has subsided, and people are paying attention.

Christ Chapel’s Sanctuary Orchestra is a symphony orchestra with 60 or so members. It performs every Sunday, typically with 45 to 55 musicians on any given day. Louis Harris, minister of music in the church’s traditional-music program, started the group with a four-piece ensemble 29 years ago, and it has expanded ever since.

Helping the congregation focus is one of the orchestra’s functions, he says. “It prepares them for a time of worship.” Even more importantly, the orchestra serves as a vehicle for devotion. “[The music] can give you a sense of the beauty of nature, the beauty of what God does.”

For the musicians, “it’s a way to minister to people through music. This is a way they can give back.”

Arlington Heights resident Leon Hudgeons, a tuba player whose experience includes U.S. Marine Corps and Moslah Shrine bands, was thrilled when he and his wife, Karen, discovered the music at Christ Chapel 14 years ago. Coming from the a capella tradition of the Church of Christ, he finds it “spiritually liberating to be able to express myself with my tuba. My calling is to be at Christ

By Carol NuckolsPhotos by Clare Miers

The Sanctuary Orchestra performs every Sunday at Christ Chapel Bible Church.

Every Sunday, Christ Chapel’s symphony orchestra devotes musical talents to the Lord.

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“Play all the notes you can and leave out the rest,

and we’re all happy.”

—Louis Harris

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Chapel.” Karen sings second soprano in the choir. Approximately 30 of the orchestra’s members are music

majors, mostly from Texas Christian University, who receive a small stipend for rehearsing and performing. Many other members perform professionally or teach.

Crestwood resident Lori Rooke, a professional flutist and piccoloist who is band director at Travis Academy of Fine Arts and a private flute teacher, finds the orchestra’s music difficult enough to be challenging but not all-consuming. “It keeps us at an excellent level,” she says. “[Furthermore], we are treated as a symphony orchestra, not as accompaniment to the choirs.”

For those who aren’t professionals, Harris wants the orchestral experience to be stress-free. He tells them, “Play all the notes you can and leave out the rest, and we’re all happy.”

In rehearsal before the Sunday service, he patiently goes over tricky key changes and repeats: “One time in E-flat, take the song ending — no, we’re not doing the D.C.” Pages turn back and forth, and pencils scribble on the sheet music; the musicians know what he means.

“Everybody clear on that? Don’t zone out on us. Then go nonstop into the next song.” They go over the transitions one more time before being joined by the choir. At one point, he refers to the previous day’s TCU football victory and motions toward the purple blazer he’ll wear for the service. The musicians crack up.

“We have fun rehearsals,” Harris says afterward. “We laugh a lot.”

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Christ Chapel Bible Church, 3701 Birchman Ave., at I-30 and Montgomery Street, is a 2,500-member independent Bible church. Its traditional-music program also includes a 20-piece big band that performs an annual concert. A Broadway musical is presented every two years. The church also holds contemporary-music services and conducts music programs for children.

In addition to playing the 11 a.m. Sunday services, with choir and bell choir, the Sanctuary Orchestra gives two concerts a year (one was in November). Upcoming events include the annual Christmas Cantata with choir, 9:15 a.m., 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. services Dec. 2; and an orchestra concert, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22.

The orchestra rehearses before the 11 a.m. service. During the service, at lower right, minister of music Louis Harris turns to conduct the

congregation in singing a hymn.

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he’s in a hurry when she slides into the driver’s seat of the Lexus. It’s 7:15 a.m. and she’s late.

Her blond hair is shining, her makeup’s on. She’s wearing a multistrand

silver chain necklace and a turquoise T-shirt with a Ronald McDonald House logo emblazoned on the back. Her toenails are painted turquoise, too — her favorite color. Later she’ll laugh about that, but now she’s behind schedule and worried that someone will need to grab breakfast on the way to the hospital and the pastries won’t be there.

For more than eight years, Pam Johndroe has made an early pilgrimage to Fort Worth’s Ronald McDonald House from her Rivercrest neighborhood to deliver pastries donated by Starbucks: an estimated 44,000 to date and counting. The Ronald McDonald House, 1004 7th Ave., provides lodging for seriously ill children and their families while the children are receiving treatment at area hospitals.

She picks up the pastries at 10:30 nightly, then bags and dates each one individually. She tries to be in bed by midnight.

“I don’t need much sleep,” she says, and the slow softness of her speech hints of a childhood spent in Jackson, Miss., a place she visits often.

Sometimes as early as 5:30 the next morning, certainly no later than 6:30, she’s at Dales Donuts No. 9 on Camp Bowie Boulevard,

By Mary Rogers Photos by Clare Miers

The Pastry Patrol

Pam Johndroe makes daily deliveries of donated Starbucks pastries to the Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth.


where she buys several sacks of donut holes, then sits in her car and seals the sacks with bright stickers.

“The little ones can’t eat a big pastry, and these little donut holes are just right,” she says.

It all began one day when Pam was in the Starbucks at the corner of Hulen and Camp Bowie and spotted a sack with her favorite word printed on it: donation. Those pastries were going to a good cause.

By then she was already a longtime Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth board member and a veteran volunteer at Cook Children’s Medical Center. She told the Starbucks manager that if there were ever extra pastries, she’d love to take them to the house.

And so began her seven-day-a-week odyssey. “When that Starbucks closed, the company gave us the Starbucks on University Drive by the bookstore” in University Park Village, she says.

If she has more than enough pastries for the house, she delivers extras to a waiting room at Cook Children’s. Once on the elevator there, a little girl exclaimed, “Look, Mommy, it’s Pam Starbucks.”

At 60-something, Pam is so faithful to this crusade that some at

her church call it her religion. One morning when she found her car battery dead, she hiked the five miles to the house carrying the bags of pastries. “That was so much fun. I couldn’t disappoint those people, and I had the stuff; I just had to get it there. My car didn’t work, but my feet did,” she says.

The sides of her Lexus are plastered with a large sign: Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth Volunteer. “I believe in advertising,” she says.

The sign has brought unexpected attention. Once a parking-lot attendant spotted the sign and said she wanted to help.

“I don’t have much, but I want to give something,” the woman said. ”Promise you’ll give this to someone there.” She held out 38 cents, and Pam promised to deliver it.

Now construction is under way for a major expansion of the house. Pam remembers the day in July when it began. She parked in her usual place, only to have a police officer rush up and ask her to move.

“I’ll just be here five minutes,” she pleaded. “I’m delivering breakfast.”

“Just five minutes? You promise?” the officer asked.She crossed her heart.“Good. Demolition starts in eight minutes,” he said.She is delighted with the memory and just as pleased with the

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er 6-year-old daughter buckled safely into her car seat, Kristy Hiser walked around to the rear of the vehicle to load the bags of groceries

she’d just purchased from Central Market. Before she began that task, she glanced upward for just a second, taking in the beauty of the soaring structure on the hill.

“I always notice it,” Hiser said of the Marty Leonard Community Chapel.

Since the lofty sentinel opened in 1990, it has provided a regular infusion of beauty and inspiration to shoppers, commuters and others who frequent west Fort Worth.

The chapel is on the campus of the Lena Pope Home, which provides counseling and education services for children. It was the dream of its namesake, Marty Leonard, whose family had been intimately involved with the oversight of the Lena Pope organization throughout her childhood and adult life. When Leonard’s 50th birthday was approaching, she requested that friends donate to a cause she cared about, and thus began the fundraising campaign for the chapel.

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From high on a hill, the Marty Leonard Community Chapel

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By Cathy Frisinger Photos courtesy of Lena Pope Home

Lifting the Spirits


hers, Leonard insists her major contribution is that “I had a good eye for somebody who was good,” meaning architect E. Fay Jones, who served as dean of the University of Arkansas School of Architecture. He was most famous for designing the exquisite Thorncrown Chapel, a tiny chapel in the woods in Eureka Springs, Ark. The Marty Leonard chapel echoes the themes of Thorncrown on a larger scale.

Like Thorncrown, the Marty Leonard chapel is a tall, narrow structure designed to capture and even amplify the presence of light. Wooden trusses in a diamond-shaped pattern repeat and repeat for a characteristic look. The sides of the roof slope down sharply, creating a sense of intimacy and enclosure, while the 60-foot-high, peaked skylight opens up the building to the heavens. Materials for the 6,000-square-foot structure are primarily Philippine mahogany, glass and brick.

Despite its urban location, the chapel feels a part of nature. The walk up to it takes the visitor past a water wall, whose soothing sound separates the campus from the raucous noise of traffic and commerce nearby. The vaguely Japanese look of the fixtures that illuminate the walkway to the chapel confirms that, yes, Jones was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Step through the door of the chapel and you find yourself in a surprisingly low-ceilinged foyer, a place to compress and quiet your emotions. Walk forward and the soaring structure of the chapel begins to reveal itself. Enter the main room and your eyes are automatically drawn upward. Jones said he wanted the chapel to be a place that inspired people to their highest thoughts, and so it is in both a physical and a spiritual way.

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Seating in the chapel is laid out in a cruciform shape, echoing in miniature many of the great Gothic cathedrals of the world. Nevertheless, Leonard always wanted the chapel to be accessible to all faiths. Accordingly, a cross at the altar can be removed, and there are touches that reference non-Christian faiths, including two partial Stars of David in the second-story choir loft. When the chapel opened, Dr. Farooq Selod, a member of the Islamic Medical Association of North America and a longtime member of the Lena Pope board of directors, gave the invocation. A Baha’i group was one of the first to hold regular services there.

Since opening, the chapel has always been the home to some faith group. Currently, the Church of Christ the King, a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, holds weekly worship services at 10:30 on Sunday mornings. On Thursday mornings, a Bible study group meets.

The chapel is used even more regularly for weddings. With some 250 weddings held there each year, it is perhaps the city’s busiest wedding venue.

Fay Jones was awarded the AIA Gold Medal, the highest honor given by the American Institute of Architects, in 1990. From couples launching their life together, to children served by the Lena Pope Home, to shoppers picking up their weekly supply of organic fruits and specialty cheeses, the Marty Leonard Community Chapel has served the purpose envisioned by both its architect and its namesake, inspiring ordinary people to higher thoughts.

“Like the Kimbell, the chapel is an example of architecture at its highest level,” says Fort Worth AIA President Bart Shaw. “It’s one of Jones’ signature works, and that it is in Fort Worth is incredibly amazing.”

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Steps from the west end of the Chapel Hill shopping center parking lot lead teasingly toward the Marty Leonard Community Chapel, but, alas, all they afford is a slightly better view up at the building. The chapel, at 3131 Sanguinet St., is accessed from Sanguinet. Take the West Freeway to Hulen Street and head south on Hulen.Turn right onto Donnelly Avenue, then right onto Sanguinet Street.

The chapel is normally open to the general public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Thursday and often closed to the public on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If you would like to visit Monday-Thursday, and especially Friday, Saturday or Sunday, call 817-255-2576 to make sure no event is scheduled.

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ipping by on Camp Bowie Boulevard, you might dismiss that modest white building with its red, green and white awnings as just another pizza-n-spaghetti joint.

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in the parking lot, aren’t there? And cast your eye over that lush garden plot tucked between sidewalk and street, overflowing with leafy greens, squashes and herbs. There you might spy a white-jacketed figure in a tall pleated chef’s toque watering or planting or picking.

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Carlo Croci harvests greens and herbs from the garden at his Bella Italia restaurant.


own uncompromising style of Italian fare on the Southside, “everybody had to go to Dallas for a real Italian restaurant,” he recalls. A divorce precipitated his 1988 move to the Camp Bowie spot, dubbed Bella Italia West to distinguish it from the original. These days, with the first restaurant long shuttered, it’s just Bella Italia to most. (Although there is a Bella Italia farther south — several, actually, and much farther south. Croci partners with a former employee in four successful Bella Italia restaurants in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, a city that sets a high bar for Italian restaurants.)

Things don’t change a lot at the Fort Worth Bella Italia. You won’t find a website or a Facebook page. Inside, the restaurant’s dimly lit trelliswork dividers, hand-painted murals, wine bottles, maps and mounted antlered heads seem frozen in

amber. The regulars — that mostly old-moneyed group that considers Bella Italia its own cozy little Westside country club — don’t care. They have their favorite tables, their favorite entrees, their favorite vintages, their favorite seats in the pocket-sized bar; Croci and sure-footed staff stalwarts Jason Hill and Neil Bolton know them all.

Whether you consider Bella Italia’s look dated or timeless, you must

remember that Carlo Croci started out very much ahead of his time. Long predating today’s locavore movement, he was growing his own produce when zucchini squash was exotic, never mind zucchini flowers. He ferried seeds back from his native Siena, in Tuscany, where all his family still lives — “I’m the only one who escaped,” he jokes — to raise flavorful varieties such as black cabbage, also known in this country as black kale or Tuscan kale. Those grapevines clinging to the building? They provide grapes for Croci’s balsamic vinegar, aging in a barrel in the back.

There’s not a spot unplanted around his restaurant, and Croci grows more goodies at his Monticello-area home. At one time he even raised quail there, which brings us to another important piece of the unique equation that is Bella Italia: game.

When it comes to game dishes, Croci was the local restaurant pioneer — although he doesn’t consider it pioneering. It’s merely cooking the way one cooked back home in Italy, where game was an integral part of the larder. His menu offers a staggering variety of game and exotic meats; on any one evening, you might find not only quail but pheasant, antelope, duck, venison, ostrich, buffalo, elk, caribou or wild boar — all cooked, according to Croci’s mantra, “simply, simply,” to let the flavor shine.

And should you wish to accompany your elk in wild-mushroom sauce with an exalted barolo or barbaresco or amarone, you are in the right place: With vintages in his cellar going back to the late ’50s, Croci will put his Italian wine collection up against any restaurant cellar in Texas. The wine list numbers more than 300 bottles, not to mention whatever surprise Croci might have tucked away in his cellar.

“I have wine everywhere,” he says with a slight grin. “Sometimes I find bottles I didn’t know I had,” like finding a forgotten stash of twenties in a pants pocket — except, Croci notes wryly, “wine is much better than money.”

Bella Italia 5139 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-738-1700Lunch 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.Tuesday-Friday Dinner 6-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday6-10 p.m. Friday and SaturdayClosed SundayFull barReservations advised; ultra-casual attire discouraged

The red, white and green of the Italian flag welcome guests to Bella Italia.

Just-picked black cabbage (also called black kale), squash blossoms and rosemary wind up in the chef’s osso buco, served over polenta.

Life’s journey can take unusual twists and turns. Talk to Ernie Horn. Full

time in construction, he was asked to serve a month or two as executive director

of Fort Worth-based Score A Goal in the Classroom, a

collaborative effort between businesses, professional

sports, entertainment venues and educational leaders that

motivates students with positive rewards and honors

folks who work with them every day. That was 14 years ago. Today, thanks to Ernie and hundreds of volunteers

— from grandparents to quarterbacks to symphony

conductors — almost 6,000 students, kindergarten through

12th grade, are improving their reading skills, deciding

to stay in school and learning to be good citizens. The

program covers a good chunk of North Texas — 39 public

school districts and 44 private/faith-based schools. Ernie knows firsthand the value

of education. In elementary school, he’d stare at his shoes

hoping the teacher wouldn’t ask him to read or write something

on the blackboard. But that’s changed. Now, Ernie brings the

right people together to make sure children are “at promise”

instead of “at risk.”For more information visit

www.scoreagoal.org.

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>ErniE HornExecutive Director

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76107 dining guide

AMERICAN/ECLECTIC SOUTHERN• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •Brownstone Kitchen840 Currie St.817-332-1555brownstonerestaurants.com

Buttons4701 West Freeway #100817-735-4900buttonsrestaurant.com

Café Modern3200 Darnell St.817-840-2157thecafemodern.com

Fred’s Texas Cafe915 Currie St.817-332-0083fredstexascafe.com

Gardens Restaurant3220 Rock Springs Road817-731-2547gardensrestaurantandcatering.com

Jazz Cafe2504 Montgomery St.817-737-0043

Kimbell Buffet3333 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-332-8451kimbellart.org

Lucile’s Bistro4700 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-738-4761lucilesstatesidebistro.com

Michaels Cuisine Restaurant3413 W. 7th St.817-877-3413michaelscuisine.com

Montgomery Street Cafe2000 Montgomery St.817-731-8033

Sweet Tomatoes2901 W. 7th St.817-348-8533souplantation.com

Z’s Cafe1300 Gendy St.817-989-2233zscafe.com

ASIAN/SUSHI• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Blue Sushi Sake Grill3131 W. 7th St.817-332-2583bluesushisakegrill.com

MK’s Sushi2801 W. 7th St.817-885-7677mkssushi.com

Sushi Axiom2600 W. 7th St.817-877-3331sushiaxiom.net

Szechuan5712 Locke Ave.817-738-7300

Tai-Pan3020 W. 7th St.817-335-6027

Tokyo Cafe5121 Pershing Ave.817-737-8568thetokyocafe.com

BAKERIES/DELIS• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Blue Bonnet Bakery4705 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-731-4233bluebonnetbakery.com

Feastivities3637 W. Vickery817-377-3011festivitiesinc.com

J. Rae’s Bakery935 Foch St.817-332-0090

Leah’s Sweet Treats4910 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-731-5223leahssweettreats.com

McKinley’s Fine Bakery1616 S. University Drive #301817-332-3242mckinleysbakery.com

Nothing Bundt Cakes4603 Camp Bowie Blvd817-989-2253nothingbundtcakes.com

Roy Pope Grocery2300 Merrick St.817-732-2863roypopegrocery.com

Swiss Pastry Shop3936 W. Vickery Blvd.817-732-5661swisspastryonline.com

The Cupcake Cottage5015 El Campo Ave.817-732-5670thecupcakecottage.com

BARBECUE• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Angelo’s2533 White Settlement Road817-332-0357angelosbbq.com

Railhead Smokehouse2900 Montgomery St.817-738-9808railheadonline.com

Woodshed Smokehouse3201 Riverfront Drive817-877-4545woodshedsmokehouse.com

BURGERS• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • BoomerJack’s Grill2600 W. 7th St.817-810-2666boomerjacks.com

Kincaid’s4901 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-732-2881kincaidshamburger.com

M&O Station Grill200 Carroll St.817-882-8020

Magnolia Motor Lounge3005 Morton St.817-332-3344magnoliamotorlounge.com

Rodeo Goat Ice House2836 Bledsoe St.817-877-4628 rodeogoat.com

Tommy’s Hamburger Grill5228 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-569-1111tommyshamburgergrill.com

FRENCH• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Saint-Emilion3617 W. 7th St.817-737-2781saint-emilionrestaurant.com

GERMAN• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Little Germany703 N. Henderson St.682-224-2601littlegermanyfortworth.com

INDIAN• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Bombay Grill4625 Donnelly Ave.817-377-9395bombaygrillindian.com

ITALIAN/PIzzA• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Aventino’s5800 Lovell Ave.817-570-7940aventinos.com

Bella Italia5139 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-738-1700

Fireside Pies2949 Crockett St.817-769-3590firesidepies.com

Fortuna5837 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-737-4471

La Piazza2930 Bledsoe St. 817-334-0000

Mama’s Pizza5800 Camp Bowie Blvd. 817-731-6262mamaspizzas.com

Milano’s Pizza & Pasta3416 W. 7th St.817-332-5226

Patrizio Pizza2932 Crockett St.817-698-0003patrizios.net

Piola3700 Mattison Ave.817-989-0007fwpiola.com

Ristorante La Piazza2930 Bledsoe St.817-334-0000lapiazzafw.com

Rocco’s Wood Fired Pizza5716 Locke Ave.817-731-4466roccosfortworth.com

Romano’s Macaroni Grill1501 S. University Drive817-336-6676macaronigrill.com

MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EASTERN• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Terra Mediterranean Grill2973 Crockett St.817-744-7485terramedgrill.com

Zoës Kitchen1601 S. University Drive817-885-8965zoeskitchen.com

MExICAN/TEx MEx• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Blue Mesa Grill1600 S. University Drive817-332-6372bluemesagrill.com

Chimys1053 Foch St.817-348-8888chimys.com

Chuy’s2401 W. 7th St.817-332-2489chuys.com



dining guideThis is a partial list of restaurants in the 76107 area. All listings are published on a space-available basis. Some fast-food and chain restaurants have been omitted. Also businesses that serve primarily dessert only or do not offer complete meal service (such as bakeries) may not be listed due to space limitations.

For prices and availability call 817-437-2761

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Dos Gringos1015 S. University Drive817-338-9393dosgringosrestaurant.com

Gloria’s2600 W. 7th St.817-332-8800gloriasrestaurant.com

Hacienda San Miguel2948 Crockett St.817-386-9923hsmw7.com

La Familia841 Foch St.817-870-2002lafamilia-fw.com

Lanny’s Alta Cocina Mexicana3405 W. 7th St.817-850-9996lannyskitchen.com

Mi Cocina4601 West Freeway #100817-569-1444mcrowd.com

Original Mexican Eats Cafe4713 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-738-6226originalmexicaneatscafe.com

Revolver Taco Lounge2822 W. 7th St.817-820-0122revolvertacolounge.com

Tres Jose’s Tex Mex Kitchen4004 White Settlement Road817-763-0456tresjosestexmex.com

Uncle Julio’s5301 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-377-2777unclejulios.com

SEAFOOD• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Eddie V’s Prime Seafood3100 W. 7th St.817-336-8000eddiev.com

Flying Fish2913 Montgomery St.817-989-2277flyingfishinthe.net

J&J Oyster Bar612 N. University Drive817-335-2756jjbluesbar.com

Zeke’s Fish & Chips5920 Curzon Ave.817-731-3321zekesfishandchips.net

STEAKS• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Hoffbrau Steaks1712 S. University Drive817-870-1952hoffbrausteaks.com

Silver Fox Steakhouse1651 S. University Drive817-332-9060silverfoxcafe.com

Tillman’s Roadhouse2933 Crockett St.817-850-9255tillmansroundhouse.com

PUBS/WINE BARS• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Bar Louie2973 W. 7th St.817-566-9933

The Ginger Man3716 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-886-2327ftworth.gingermanpub.com

Times Ten Cellars1100 Foch St.817-336-9463timestencellars.com

Winslow’s Wine Cafe4101 Camp Bowie Blvd.817-546-6843winslowswinecafe.com


aroundtownnew & notable

A look at what’s coming to West 7th and beyond.

Waters, Bonnell’s Coastal CuisineGet your oyster jones ready. Work is set to begin any day on the

7,500 square feet of space that will become Waters, Bonnell’s Coastal Cuisine. The fine-dining establishment will emphasize fresh seafood and occupy the space vacated by Bailey’s Prime Plus at 2901 Crockett St. in the West 7th development. The raw bar will stand as the centerpiece

in the dining area. Bonnell said the venue will feature the freshest seafood available from Florida, New Zealand, Alaska and elsewhere around the world, but that it will emphasize oysters, shrimp, clams,

crab, redfish and flounder from the Gulf of Mexico. The oyster bar will include six to eight varieties of fresh oysters daily. “It’ll be served to

you the day after it’s caught,” he said. This is Bonnell’s third location. Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine, launched in 2001 on Bryant Irvin Road in southwest Fort Worth, specializes in game and has consistently earned

high ratings from Zagat and other publications. Bonnell’s sports bar, Buffalo Bros, on South University Drive, caters to the TCU crowd.

2901 Crockett St. • 817-738-5489 bonnellstexas.com

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American F+B American F+B will start welcoming diners in early 2013 as Dallas-based Consilient Restaurants’ newest entry into the growing competition for diners’ attention in the West 7th development, at 2869 Crockett St. The fare will be modern American tavern, including soups, salads and hip grill items such as brisket enchiladas and shrimp – all done with a focus on “in-house production of artisan ingredients, with an emphasis on seasonality,” according to a company press release. Consilient likens American F+B (which stands for food and beverage) to a cross between two of its other successful concepts: The Porch in Dallas and the Westside Tavern in Los Angeles. Adding to the connection has been the naming of Warren Schwartz, formerly chef at Westside Tavern, to oversee the menu and kitchen operations for American F+B. Consilient operates several upscale and casual restaurants that include Hibiscus in Dallas and several Fireside Pies locations in North Texas, including one in the West 7th development. The Porch’s fare is described as classic urban tavern with a home-style spin.2869 Crockett St. • 214-922-7510consilientrestaurants.com

Einstein Bros. Bagels Maybe you’ve seen the sign in the window on the southeast corner of West 7th Street and University Drive: Einstein Bros. is preparing 2,535 square feet of space where the bagel-focused delicatessen and sandwich shop hopes to open the last week of January. It is the first tenant in the new phase of the West 7th development run by Cypress Equities.

The Laundry A dry-cleaning drop-off and tailoring service will open inside the NC Parking garage off of West 7th Street between Norwood and Currie streets. The shop will be run by Marilyn Bevan, who also runs The Laundry and Reata Alterations with Brian Overstreet in south Fort Worth. The garage has entrances on Currie and Norwood, and a covered drop-off station will be offered.

Photo courtesy of Waters, Bonnell’s Coastal Cuisine

By Bill Bowen


new & notable76107

Fred’s Texas Cafe Lovers of the eclectic – in both food and music – are

already enjoying the spiffy new patio at Fred’s. The work made seating more sensible and added a covered patio

and stage. They’ve also updated the ambience with tractor seats at the bar at what has been the funkiest spot in the West 7th area. “Now it looks like a patio at one of those places that have come in here around us,” manager Carl

Pack explained. Fred’s, owned and operated by chef Terry Chandler and Jennifer Chandler, will continue its six nights

a week of music (closed Monday) and will add special music events for the spring, all done with the aroma of the diablo burger, quail and eggs, and rib eyes with enchiladas.

915 Currie St.817-332-0083 • fredstexascafe.com

Courtyard and Common University of North Texas

Health Science CenterWe got a peek at the coming green space on

Montgomery Street at the UNTHSC, where dust has prevailed in a bulldozer’s wake. The renderings

show a 1¾-acre green space lined with honey locust, big-toothed maple, live oak, Drake elm

and Eve’s necklace, entwined with sidewalks and featuring interconnected reflecting pools. “It will allow the view and much easier access to the

Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library, one of seven health-science libraries in the state open to the public,” said Dana Benton Russell, director of public relations for the University of North Texas Health Science Center. The library, 3500 Camp

Bowie Blvd., serves as a repository of health data and assists students and others with health

information and research.

Photo by Carolyn Cruz

Photo courtesy of University of North Texas Health Science Center

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Benefi ting the

Ask most men and they’ll tell you that shopping for holiday gifts can be challenging to say the least. 360 West magazine and

it’s luxury retail partners have the solution for guys who want personalized service, a high-end o� ering of products, and a

one–stop shopping experience during the holidays. It’s a shopping tailgate with your best buds, if you will. Products from the

retailers listed below are available for take-home that evening or for pick-up in the store at a later date. This event is open to

the public, but a ticket must be purchased online. A $20 charity ticket gets you Angelo’s BBQ for dinner and

two complimentary drinks. Capacity is limited. To purchase tickets, visit 360westmagazine.com/tickets.

Proceeds from this event benefi t the Fort Worth Stock Show Syndicate.

Participating retailers (at time of publication):

Participating sponsors:

Tuesday, December 11 6-10 p.m. 809 at Vickery

Betty Jane’s BoutiqueCentral Market

Dallas Safari ClubHaltom’s Jewelers

Leddy’s Ranch at Sundance

M.L. Leddy’sPink Hanger

Scentimentals BoutiqueShimmer Shine Sparkle

The Skin ClinicTravel Experts

Twigs Floral & GiftsWest Magnolia Plastic Surgery

Zelli’s Fine Handbags

360 WEST

GUYS’NIGHT OUTHoliday Market

A shopping eventexclusively for men

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

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