West Side Cafe gets new, very familiar, owners

West Side Cafe, the Fort Worth institution where “Country Cookin’” gets top billing over the restaurant’s name, has new owners. 

West Side Cafe finds new owner and more Fort Worth restaurant news

In this roundup of dining news around Fort Worth, there are promising openings and sad closures. New owners, new menus, new desserts. Ice cream, cake, and frozen yogurt. And new craft beer.

History of West Side Cafe in Fort Worth, TX

It’s 11:30 a.m. on a Sunday and you enter a low-slung building to a crowded waiting area, adorned with mismatched frames displaying veterans gone by. After elbowing past the vinyl bar stools, you’re seated at a slightly wobbly table in a chair that was probably pulled from a community center closet. The walls are sepia toned, the air smells like bacon grease, and you’re in for good ole country cookin’ surrounded by fading ephemera.