Here’s a look at two fancy new restaurants in Fort Worth’s Crescent towers. One is open

Bud Kennedy
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The serious Crescent Fort Worth hotel restaurant is here, with another to follow next door.

The Blue Room, the fine-dining “jewel box” inside the Crescent dining room, is open, serving such items as sole meuniere prepared table-side, caviar and shellfish.

Next door, Dallas restaurateur Chas Martin and business partners from The Charles and other Dallas restaurants will open a fine-dining restaurant and bar inside the Crescent office tower facing the hotel and the Kimbell Art Museum. Martin grew up in Fort Worth.

Seared scallops atop celery-root puree with roasted fennel and smoked trout roe at The Blue Room. the fine-dining restaurant inside the Crescent Fort Worth hotel.
Seared scallops atop celery-root puree with roasted fennel and smoked trout roe at The Blue Room. the fine-dining restaurant inside the Crescent Fort Worth hotel.

Inside the hotel, The Blue Room is decorated in dark blue and brass, with low lighting at night.

Chef Preston Paine’s larger all-day restaurant, Emelia’s, opened along with the hotel, 3300 Camp Bowie Blvd. But The Blue Room took time to finish out.

“This a fine-dining restaurant that just happens to sit inside our coastal Mediterranean Italian restaurant,” Paine said last week.

The Blue Room is the fine-dining restaurant inside the Crescent Fort Worth hotel.
The Blue Room is the fine-dining restaurant inside the Crescent Fort Worth hotel.

“I can’t think of anything else to relate it to. We don’t know of another hotel doing anything close.”

The restaurant has a set menu for now and will add a chef’s tasting menu, Paine said. Dinners open with a series of small-bite hors d’oeuvres.

No menus or prices had been published at press time. So ask.

Chef Preston Paine at The Blue Room inside the Crescent Fort Worth hotel.
Chef Preston Paine at The Blue Room inside the Crescent Fort Worth hotel.

The new next-door neighbor at 3230 Camp Bowie Blvd. will be an upscale restaurant from a much-heralded company, Duro Hospitality.

Company leaders include Martin and TCU alumnus Benji Homsey, formerly of the Hotel ZaZa resorts.

The company has not described the restaurant or menu.

In Dallas, Duro operates The Charles. 1632 Market Center Blvd.; Sister and neighboring Cafe Duro, 2808 Greenville Ave.; Mister Charles, 3219 Knox St.; and El Carlos, 1400 N. Riverfront Blvd.