After 42 years on Fort Worth’s West 7th Street, Fred’s Texas Café is moving.
Long before West 7th was West 7th, long before all the trendy bars and nightspots replaced a predominantly industrial area, there was Fred’s.
Named after the original owner’s dog, Fred’s has served his famous hamburgers and beers to countless customers.
“We cook with love,” said co-owner Quincy Wallace. “That’s why we’ve been here so long.”
Parking is tight now, and the truth is that Currie Street lot has got too valuable. So the owners are making a business decision.
“It’s for sale,” said Wallace.
Wallace said he couldn’t stop change. But he will miss this place.
“I’m happy for the developers, but we’re just an old hamburger place,” he said.
This old hamburger eatery will be closed at the end of the year and will reopen in a new location.
Customers will miss the old place.
“I think I’ll be missing that old Fort Worth energy,” said customer Laura Horton.
Wallace understands – maybe more than anyone.
He’s been a part of it since Fred opened in 1978.
Wallace started eating here as a young boy – his father owned a furniture store next door – and worked in the kitchen before becoming a co-owner.
“The dishwasher was in the same place when I was learning to wash dishes,” he said. “I’m sad to move away from here.”
He said he will literally take many of the memories with him to the new location, including an old pickup truck parked outside the restaurant.
“It’s just the new Fort Worth out there and we’re still the old Fort Worth,” Wallace said.
The new Fred’s opens in a couple of months in a former steak restaurant on Highway 183 and West Camp Bowie Boulevard.
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