Fort Worth, Texas · Est. 1961
Three generations, one cellar, and beef we age forty-five days ourselves. When a milestone needs a room, this is the room.
Most restaurants make you call to find out what a private dinner costs. Choose your room, your night and your menu below — the estimate builds itself, minimum included.
A plan of the house. Shaded rooms are yours to book; the kitchen, bar and entry stay open to the public.
Sample figures for this demo. Minimums are food & beverage only — tax, 20% service and any audio-visual are added at contract. Weekend minimums run higher.
Kate runs our events desk and answers every inquiry herself, usually the same afternoon.
“A room should make people forget what time it is.”Ray Braswell · third generation
We buy whole primals from four ranches inside a two-hour drive, and we break them down ourselves in the room behind the bar. Then we wait. Dry aging costs us about a third of the weight in moisture and trim — which is exactly why almost nobody does it in house anymore.
What you get for the wait is concentration: a nuttier, deeper, almost blue-cheese edge on the ribeye that a wet-aged steak simply cannot reach.
Forty-five days of patience end in a hurry: coarse salt, post oak at 700°, and a rest long enough that the first cut doesn’t bleed out onto the plate.
8–14 seats. Surrounded by the list, behind a door that actually closes.
16–30 seats. Above the room, still part of it. Our most-booked space.
6–10 seats. A chef’s table beside the aging cellar. Courses come by hand.
60–120 seats. The whole house, the whole staff, the whole night.
“We closed the deal in The Cellar and the room did half the work. Nobody looked at a phone for three hours.”
“I sent the room and the number to my in-laws before I ever called. That never happens with a restaurant.”
“The 60-day chop is the best steak in Tarrant County and I will argue about it.”
My grandfather opened on Exchange Row in 1961 with six tables and a walk-in he built himself. My father added the cellar. I added the mezzanine, and I still break down every primal that comes through the back door on Tuesday mornings.
If you book a room here, you will meet me. That is the whole pitch.
1892 Exchange Row
Fort Worth, TX 76164
Complimentary valet from 5 PM, and a lot of our own behind the building on Clayton. Jackets are welcome and never required — this is Fort Worth.
For parties of eight or more, use the plan above or call the events desk directly.
Plan it in thirty seconds, or call and talk to a person. Either way you will know the number before you commit.