When brothers Alessandro and Alfonso Salvatore started exploring the idea of opening a second restaurant in Fort Worth, they immediately thought of the dish they couldn’t do at their first: pizza.
There’s just no room at Bocca Osteria Romana for the Salvatore brothers to install a wood-fired brick oven, the tool needed to make their Roman-style pies. The place is too small, the kitchen already crowded. So, if they couldn’t do pizza at Bocca, they decided to find a place where they could.
That search led to Felina, their recently opened second restaurant, located in the former Funky Picnic Brewery & Cafe space on Bryan Avenue. Felina follows the runaway success of Bocca Osteria Romana, the brothers’ Italian/Roman restaurant that took Fort Worth by storm when it opened a little over a year ago (it was our pick for best new restaurant of 2024); it remains one of the city’s toughest reservations…