The building at 9812 Camp Bowie West Blvd. has already played a restaurant on television. It was the Patch Cafe on Taylor Sheridan’s “Landman,” the Paramount+ series with Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hamm, and Demi Moore, filmed on location in the Westland Shopping Center before the crew packed up and left the storefront empty again. Now it’s becoming an actual restaurant, and the family behind it already runs one of the most recognized names in Fort Worth hospitality.
Rosebuds Picnic Supply is opening this summer next door to that former set, from the Murrin family, who also own River Ranch Stockyards. It’s a sandwich and ice cream shop built around what the name promises: fried chicken, fresh sandwiches, seasonal soups and salads, and traditional Texas sweets meant to be eaten slowly rather than grabbed and gone. A full-service restaurant tied to the Landman set is planned for the space next door once Rosebuds gets its doors open first.
The name has more history behind it than a typical picnic-themed sandwich shop. Back in 1940, the Jenny Lind Club on this same stretch of Camp Bowie hired a theater dance troupe called the Six Tiny Rosebuds to work as carhops, a detail the Murrins pulled straight out of Westland’s own past rather than inventing something that sounded vintage. It’s the kind of name that means something to anyone who grew up around this corner of Fort Worth and just sounds pretty to everyone else…