The truth of 2020: Fort Worth saw plenty of restaurant flops, but also a few finds
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 12/29/2020 Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Dec. 29 FORT WORTH If nothing else, 2020 proved that the bigger restaurants are, the faster they fall.
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A $3 million craft brewery was among the first and most expensive of a dozen Fort Worth restaurants to close as other eateries downsized to curbside pickup and drive-thrus during the COVID-19 recession.
But more restaurants still opened than closed, with new owners taking over leases at closeout prices and looking optimistically toward 2021 and a vaccine.
The demise of the Deep Ellum Funkytown Fermatorium is the biggest flop of 2020. But it was not solely the result of the coronavirus slowdown the West 7th area simply grew oversaturated with suds. A foolish $2.5 million location of now-bankrupt Punch Bowl Social had closed in 2019.