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Campo Verde closure tops this week's 5 most popular Fort Worth stories

Editor's note: The top Fort worth news of the week includes openings and closings. A festive, holiday-crazed restaurant has gone dark, while a celebrity chef's latest concept has debuted. Read the five most popular Fort Worth stories of the below, and then find some weekend fun right here.
1. Holiday-crazed Arlington restaurant Campo Verde turns out the lights. A Tex-Mex restaurant that made every day feel like Christmas with its over-the-top holiday decor has turned out the lights: Campo Verde closed its location at 2918 W. Pioneer Pkwy. in Arlington indefinitely. The last day it was open was January 5.
2. BBQ restaurant with heartwarming family story to open in Fort Worth. A beloved family-owned barbecue joint in the mid-cities is undergoing a transformation. After nearly a decade, the restaurant formerly known as Berry Best Barbecue in North Richland Hills has rebranded as Lil JJ's Smokehouse and is opening in a prime location in the bustling Presidio Towne Crossing shopping center in north Fort Worth.
3. Haltom City gas station restaurant does spicy, juicy momo dumplings. There’s a new restaurant in the mid-cities focused on a special kind of dumpling: Called MoMo Bros, it's serving traditional Nepalese street food, including the namesake momos, in Haltom City at the Cowboys gas station at 4050 Haltom Rd.
Momo Bros. dumplings.
Momo Bros.
4. Retro hotel opens in Stephenville, Texas with celeb chef Stephan Pyles. A hipster motel and restaurant with celeb chef has debuted in Stephenville, 78 miles southwest of Fort Worth: The Interstate Inn is now open for overnight accommodations with 33 distinctively outfitted rooms that summon the '60s. Its on-site restaurant, The Seeker – a modern Texas cuisine concept created by Southwest chef Stephan Pyles – opened January 30.
5. Fort Worth Rodeo gets glamorous grand entrance at Junior League gala. Hundreds of Fort Worth philanthropists and patrons of both Junior League of Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo descended on "the dirt floor" of Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, January 11 for Junior League's 13th annual Grand Entry Gala.