A Fort Worth food truck popular for burgers and BBQ will open a west side restaurant

The chef behind a popular barbecue-and-burgers food truck will open a west Fort Worth restaurant that will add a dinner menu with steaks and wines.

Fort Redemption, chef Tony Chaudhry’s four-year venture serving ?-pound cheeseburgers and brisket with gourmet sauces such as bourbon-cream, will expand its menu and open at 5724 Locke Ave. near the Ridglea neighborhood.

Chaudhry, a veteran of local steakhouses and fine-dining restaurants, said he loves barbecue but wants to expand dinner business with a midprice menu of entrees and fine wines.

Fort Redemption will replace a taqueria at 5724 Locke Ave., near the corner of Camp Bowie Boulevard and Horne Street two blocks south of Interstate 30.

The location is near Szechuan Chinese Restaurant and across Camp Bowie Boulevard from a future La La Land Kind Cafe coffee shop.

The nearest barbecue restaurants are both more than 1? miles away: Riscky’s Bar-B-Q and the Railhead Smokehouse.

As Fort Redemption BBQ, Chaudhry’s truck operated from Truck Yard Alliance to Aledo and was popular at breweries and at late-night locations in the hospital district.

The restaurant will continue to serve the food truck’s signature brisket-jalapeno mac-and-cheese, he said.

Chaudhry, born in the southern Russia city of Astrakhan about halfway between Moscow and Tehran, has lived in west Fort Worth since childhood. His mother is nationally known custom Western wear designer Vera Vasiley of Fort Worth.