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Is Lonesome Dove Western Bistro Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3 Fort Worth, Texas

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Lonesome Dove Western Bistro is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: Lonesome Dove's own website shows current hours and recently updated photography, and a 2026 OpenTable listing shows active reservation availability, indicating the restaurant remains open. Re-confirmed September 2026: website and reservation-platform listings remain active and consistent. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Lonesome Dove Western Bistro is chef Tim Love's flagship restaurant in Fort Worth's Historic Stockyards District, a Western-game and wood-fired grill menu that lines up with the show's 'Grilled' episode (S3E1) theme. Love opened the restaurant in 2000 and built its reputation on elevated ranch-country cooking — grilled and smoked meats served in a converted Stockyards building — that has since earned it recurring Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence. According to the restaurant's own website, Lonesome Dove currently lists lunch service Friday and Saturday and dinner service every night of the week, with recently updated site photography. An OpenTable listing for the Fort Worth address shows a 2026 update with current reservation availability, according to OpenTable, consistent with an actively operating restaurant rather than a closed one.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3

Episode 1
Air date not confirmed
Title: Grilled · What was featured: a grilled Western game or ranch-country dish from the Stockyards menu

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. lonesomedovefortworth.com https://www.lonesomedovefortworth.com/
  2. OpenTable https://www.opentable.com/lonesome-dove-western-bistro-fort-worth
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