For almost a decade, if you wanted Marcus Paslay's handmade pasta, you drove to Waterside. That's changing this November, and the move offers a window into where Clearfork is headed.
Piattello Italian Kitchen is packing up its saucepans and pasta machines and relocating about a mile down the road to The Shops at Clearfork, the retail and office corridor that sits a short drive from the Westover Hills gate down Bryant Irvin. On paper this reads like a routine restaurant relocation. It isn't. Piattello will be the first locally owned restaurant to join Clearfork's dining lineup, a corridor that has built its reputation almost entirely on national and regional brands. That single fact is the story, and everything else happening at Clearfork this fall is downstream of it.
The Address Changes. The Question Behind It Doesn't.
Piattello has operated out of Waterside since 2017, a dinner-only spot open 5 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Sunday, 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The new location sits at 5137 Marathon Avenue, the corner of Marathon and Ozona, inside a three-story building called The Offices at Clearfork. The new footprint is 5,620 square feet with about 160 indoor seats and a 40-seat patio, and for the first time the restaurant will serve lunch seven days a week.
Chef Paslay has framed the move as continuity rather than departure. He's only moving about a mile down the road, which means the neighborhood that built Piattello from the beginning stays in reach while the restaurant steps into what Clearfork's own developer calls one of the city's most visited destinations. The core menu, the housemade pastas and wood-fired pizzas, isn't changing. What's changing is the clientele Piattello now has to feed twice a day instead of once.
That's worth sitting with for a second. Piattello is adding lunch service at its new location, where Wells Fargo already has office space.
Wells Fargo and Piattello Share an Address
The building Piattello is moving into already has an anchor tenant, and it isn't a restaurant. Wells Fargo relocated its Fort Worth office from downtown into this same three-story building in May 2026, taking up nearly two full floors of a 75,088-square-foot building. Piattello will occupy the ground floor beneath that office space.
This is the part that gets missed when a restaurant opening gets covered as food news. A corporate relocation and Piattello's move landed in the same building, bringing an office and a restaurant to the same address. Marche Bleu, the market and café concept a few doors down on Marathon Avenue, is another nearby grab-and-go option. Piattello's lunch service marks a change from the dinner-only schedule it has kept at Waterside.
What's Actually Useful to You Right Now
If you live near the Westover Hills gate and Clearfork is already where you end up for dinner more often than not, one thing on the calendar is worth using before it closes out.
- DFW Restaurant Week is running at The Shops at Clearfork now through September 7, with participating restaurants offering prix-fixe menus and proceeds supporting the North Texas Food Bank and Lena Pope.
That gives you a little under two weeks. City Works Eatery, the sports bar and pour house anchoring the corridor's dining lineup, just wrapped its own Fort Worth Burger Week promotion built around a Hawaiian Guajillo Burger, a reminder that these corridor-wide food promotions tend to stack through late summer and early fall. If you've been meaning to try one of Clearfork's dinner spots at a lower price point, Restaurant Week is the window still open.
Why the "First Local Restaurant" Detail Matters More Than It Sounds
Clearfork has long had restaurants, including City Works Eatery and a rotating cast of national concepts. Piattello adds a locally owned restaurant to the corridor's dining mix. Paslay's portfolio includes Clay Pigeon Food & Drink, which he opened in 2008, along with Provender Hall in the Stockyards and Walloon's on the Near Southside. Piattello moving to Clearfork isn't a chain filling a lease. It's a Fort Worth restaurant group moving into the corridor.
For nearby residents, the added lunch hours offer another time of day to visit a restaurant in the corridor.
Piattello is also approaching its own milestone in the middle of this move. The restaurant hits ten years in business in January 2027, just a couple of months after the Clearfork location opens. Paslay has said his team hopes to keep the Waterside location running as long as possible so there's only a short gap between the old spot closing and the new one opening. If you've had a Friday-night reservation habit at Waterside, that gap is the thing to watch for over the next couple of months.
The Practical Takeaway
None of this changes anything about home values or market timing, and that's the point. This is a neighborhood update, not a real estate one. But if you've lived near Westover Hills long enough to have a mental map of where Clearfork sits in your week, that map is worth updating. The corridor picked up a hometown restaurant anchor this year, and that restaurant is adding lunch service at a location with an office tenant upstairs. Restaurant Week is running at The Shops at Clearfork through September 7.
Piattello's move brings a longtime local restaurant to Clearfork, a development worth noticing on its own terms.
For more on what's changing in and around Westover Hills, from the fall calendar closest to the gate to the neighborhood's own architectural history, the team at JZ Fort Worth keeps a closer eye on this stretch of the city than most. If you ever want that same level of ground-level detail applied to a property decision instead of a dinner one, Work With Us.
