Piattello Italian Kitchen moves to Clearfork with bigger pasta menu

Piattello Italian Kitchen is trading Waterside for The Shops at Clearfork, giving Fort Worth’s pasta crowd a larger room for the same scratch-made Italian cooking that made the restaurant a neighborhood fixture. The move, set for November, shifts the restaurant roughly a mile down the road into a newly constructed mixed-use building, keeping it close to the community it already serves while placing it inside one of the city’s most visited and high-end retail districts.

For diners, the change is less about reinvention than reach. Piattello is expected to preserve its scratch-made pizza and pasta identity at the new location, but the footprint will grow to 5,620 square feet with about 160 seats inside and 40 more on the patio. Lunch service is also part of the plan, which widens the restaurant’s daily rhythm and gives the pasta program a larger window to catch both neighborhood regulars and Clearfork shoppers.

The relocation also gives Piattello a sharper local identity inside a development where it will be the first and only Fort Worth-owned and operated restaurant. That matters in a dining corridor increasingly defined by polished national brands and destination shopping, and it gives Chef Marcus Paslay’s concept a more visible stage without cutting ties to the west-side base that helped build it. Piattello is nearing its 10th anniversary in January 2027, so the move lands like a step forward rather than a reset.

Paslay’s From Scratch Hospitality group has already staked out a broad Fort Worth portfolio with Clay Pigeon, Walloon’s and Provender Hall, and Piattello’s move fits that larger pattern of growing concepts with clear identities instead of chasing scale for its own sake. In Clearfork, the restaurant is not just adding seats and lunch. It is signaling that Fort Worth’s appetite for high-end pasta now extends to a room that feels bigger, busier and built for the next chapter of the city’s dining map.