When the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth announced the exhibit Women Painting Women, art fans and artists in my circle collectively rejoiced. In a historically male-dominated field, an all-women show seemed like a revelation. Interestingly, in Fort Worth, women oversee most major arts institutions such as Fort Worth
Wolfgang Puck takes over Fort Worth museum restaurant a year after Dallas fine-dining spot closed
Cafe Modern at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will get a new, Asian-influenced menu.
Chef Jett Mora hasn t finished creating the menu for Cafe Modern yet, but he expects it to have some classic Wolfgang items on it when it launches in mid-2021. The menu might include dishes like this smoked salmon pizza.(Dustin Downing)
Puck operates several dozen restaurants
around the world, including a steakhouse named Cut and a California-inspired restaurant named Spago. Puck’s restaurant group has not operated any fine-dining restaurants in Dallas-Fort Worth since April 2020, when Five Sixty restaurant at Reunion Tower in Dallasclosed. (The company does, however, have a place at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.)