This week's hot headlines
Walmart pizza partnership tops week's 5 hottest Fort Worth headlines
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Editor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. Read on for the week's most popular headlines. Looking for the best things to do this weekend? Find that list here.
1. Fort Worth-based pizza chain set to expand with Walmart partnership. Pizza and shopping go hand in hand, at least that's what one Fort Worth-based pizza chain thinks. Mr Gatti's Pizza is partnering with Walmart to roll out 92 Mr Gatti's locations in stores in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Kentucky.
2. Tavern at historic downtown Fort Worth building to close after 14 years. A downtown Fort Worth institution is closing: T & P Tavern, a gastropub-diner on the ground floor of the Texas & Pacific Lofts at 221 W. Lancaster Ave., is closing after 14 years.
3. Openings and expansions make this Fort Worth restaurant news extra cheery. There sure is a lot of restaurant news going on in Fort Worth. Openings, new dinner service, new lunch service — but also a sad closure. Fortunately there are new dishes and new menus, providing plenty of opportunity to eat your sad feelings.
4. Where to drink: 5 Fort Worth bars for Palm Royale-inspired cocktails. Retro classic cocktails are the drinks of summer, thanks to Apple TV+’s hit series Palm Royale. While the show's Palm Beach setting is not exactly a stone’s throw away, it’s possible to sip Palm Royale-inspired cocktails – from the tropical Mai Tai to the classy Gimlet – with a visit to one of these five Fort Worth bars.
5. Pickleball Kingdom to open its biggest location yet in Fort Worth. Remember pickleball, the post-pandemic craze? It's still crazy, and now there are two new spots coming to Dallas-Fort Worth, including one in the Keller area. Both are new locations of Pickleball Kingdom, a concept founded in Chandler, Arizona in 2022, being brought to North Texas by Dallas entrepreneur and pickleball fanatic Dan Jenkins.