TV chef Casey Thompson’s new Fort Worth hotel restaurant is very different from both the restaurant and city she left nearly 15 years ago.
Thompson pitched in to help a friend open Duchess in the new Nobleman hotel, a Hilton-branded property in South Main Village, and found that both the city and the dining scene have grown up.
“To begin with, I think [chef] Tim Love has opened 87 restaurants, so I have a lot of catching up to do,” Thompson said on a recent visit in her consulting role at Duchess, in an old fire station at 503 Bryan Ave. near Panther City BBQ…