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New garden restaurant in west Fort Worth serves lunch amid flowers on a sunny patio

A new garden cafe is the latest restaurant to join the the renaissance on Camp Bowie Boulevard West.

Heirloom Garden Cafe is just getting started.

The menu is small and lunchy, but the setting is majestic — amid a city block of flowers, trees and singing birds at the 70-year-old Archie’s Gardenland center, 6700 Z Boaz Place just steps from the boulevard.

It’s the latest in a series of openings or upgrades on the west end of Camp Bowie Boulevard, including the new location of Fred’s Texas Cafe, JD’s Hamburgers (still undergoing storm repairs), Boozie’s brew-and-sandwich shop and Dayne’s Craft Barbecue.

Heirloom is a trailer serving lunch and brunch, but it doesn’t roll anywhere.

Heirloom Garden Cafe is a trailer parked in a city-block-wide garden center.
Heirloom Garden Cafe is a trailer parked in a city-block-wide garden center.

Tokyo Cafe chef Kevin Martinez has opened it as a sideline with the permission of Tokyo’s owners, Jarry and Mary Ho.

So far, Heirloom features his tomato-mozzarella salad with watermelon and sunflower pesto ($12), along with a rotating choice of sandwiches and desserts.

It’s open beginning at 10 a.m. for lunch, except Mondays and Tuesdays. Diners can sit at one of a dozen or so tables in the garden center or take a lunch to go.

A dining table at Heirloom Garden Cafe inside a garden center in west Fort Worth.
A dining table at Heirloom Garden Cafe inside a garden center in west Fort Worth.

The restaurant is still very much in a dry-run stage. The menu wil grow, Martinez said.

“We want it to be one of the favorite lunch spots,” Martinez wrote in a text.

Read more at heirloomfw.com.