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.

Here's what's happening in Fort Worth restaurant news:

Eduardo’s Pastry Kitchen, a new bakery and candy shop at 5950 River Oaks Blvd., in a former T-Mobile shop, is celebrating its grand opening on July 19. Owner Eduardo Chavarin-Arreola previously operated a cottage bakery, selling pastries and sweets from his home for a growing clientele, as a side business to his career in social work. This will be his first storefront location. His signature is decorated sugar cookies, but he also does cupcakes, Mexican sweet bread, cookies, crème brulée, cake pops, and custom-made cakes to order. He'll also fold in his other side venture, a candy shop called Black Gato Candy Co. which he started in 2023, selling buzzy freeze-dried candies at markets and vendor fairs, including skittles, jolly ranchers, peach rings, and sour crawlers.

Captain D’s, the fast casual seafood chain, has opened a location in Euless, a significant milestone as the brand debuts its closest location yet to the heart of metro Dallas. It's at 121 Airport Freeway, in Jams Shopping Center. It's the 12th location in the greater Dallas area and 21st in Texas, and is owned and operated by local businessman Jewel Chowdhury, who also owns the adjacent retail center. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Nashville, Captain D's is known for batter-dipped fish, grilled shrimp, tilapia, and salmon, as well as hushpuppies, desserts, and Southern-style sweet tea.

Sour Boule, the sourdough bakery and café that opened in September 2023 in the former Busy B’s Bakery space at 3701 Southwest Blvd., is relocating: According to owner Alexis Misner, they signed a lease on a larger space next door at 3801 Southwest Blvd. to which they will relocate in the next few months. The new space will give them more seating, and they'll extend their hours and expand their offerings. They'll stay open in their current space Monday 6:30 am-2 pm, and Tuesday-Sunday 6:30 am-6:30 pm until the new space is complete.

The Garden of Eating Bistro in Cleburne is expanding its hours to add dinner. For now they're doing pop-up dinners every Friday night to ready themselves for it becoming a regular thing. Their menu includes hot sandwiches, soups, salads, quinoa bowls, and dessert. They also serve beer and wine and have a retro candy and boutique inside restaurant.

Fitzgerald, the west Fort Worth restaurant from chef Ben Merritt that opened on Camp Bowie Boulevard in 2022, is now open for lunch. The restaurant focuses on Gulf Coast-style seafood with influence from the Crescent City: New Orleans-style barbecue shrimp served with crusty French bread, seafood gumbo with oysters and crawfish tails, Mexican-style redfish, and ribeye steak. They also do a Sunday brunch with crab cake Benedict, shrimp and grits, and crawfish omelets.

Queen's Cookies is a cottage bakery mom & pop specializing in super-thick cookies baked in the style of the famous Levain in New York in flavors such as double chocolate chip , Ube, black cocoa, matcha , cookie butter, s’mores, strawberry , red velvet Nutella . They just did their first pop-up at Happy Lemon in Fort Worth but can be reached on their Instagram page.

Boca 31, the chef-driven quick-service restaurant in the former Funky Town Donuts space in the Near Southside, featuring Latin street foods from husband-and-wife Andres and Marlene Meraz, is closing on July 19, "due to multiple factors, it has become impossible to keep the business going." They'd been open in the space since 2022. Andres, a California native, worked at the Ritz-Carlton and Restaurante Akelarre, a Michelin 3-star restaurant in Spain, before moving to Texas in 2014. Boca served a creative spin on tacos, empanadas, and sandwiches.

Shipley Do-Nuts has new egg & cheese kolaches for the summer, in three varieties: egg & cheese for $2.99, egg, cheese, & sausage for 3.49, and egg, cheese, sausage, & jalapeño for $3.49. Available through September 30.

Dairy Queen has brought back the Salted Caramel Truffle DQ Blizzard for the July Blizzard of the Month, featuring vanilla soft serve, caramel truffles, and sea salt.

Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard Italian ice chain has a new offerings in partnership with Nerds candy: a Nerds grape flavored ice, and Baby Nerds dessert topping. Also a Nerds grape-flavored Gelati Blender, a drink featuring Italian ice blended with custard and topped with Baby Nerds.

BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse has new menu items for summer including onion rings, chili crunch pot stickers, and parmesan-crusted shrimp. There are two new cocktails: The Lucky Ducky, served in a cute bathtub vessel, which you can take home for $10, and Triple Patrón Guava Rita.

Mountain Mike’s Pizza has two new pizzas for summer: All-American Cheeseburger Pizza with beef, bacon, onions, cheddar, mozzarella, tomato, and dill pickles on Thousand Island dressing; and Apple of My Pie Dessert Pizza with apple pie filling, brown sugar & cinnamon, mozzarella cheese, and powdered sugar. Available through August at all locations including Lewisville, Fort Worth, and Grand Prairie.

Mi Dia From Scratch presents the Summer Peach Margarita as the Margarita of the Month for July, featuring Milagro Tequila and St. Germain, peach, hibiscus, and lemon, shaken and poured into a short glass, then topped with a hibiscus foam. At three locations: Plano, Grapevine, and Flower Mound.

El Chico has two new cocktails which offer a rum-based twist to their traditional margarita: Dreamsicle with Don Q Naranja Rum, Coco Reàl Cream of Coconut, pineapple juice, orange juice; and Tropical Parrot-dise with Parrot Bay Coconut Rum, Coco Reàl Cream of Coconut, pineapple juice, and Myers’s Original Dark Rum. The cocktails are $7.50, available through October 7, at locations in Rockwall, Pantego, and Richland Hills.