La Bistro Italian Grill, a 41-year fine-dining favorite known for supporting community events in Hurst and Colleyville, will donate all money from sales July 7-10 to Texas Hill Country flood victims, according to an announcement on Facebook.
The Benouared family, the restaurant’s owners, announced that “100% of every single dollar spent at La Bistro — food, drinks, EVERYTHING — will go directly to the families affected by the flooding.” It’s one of the most generous gifts by a Fort Worth-area restaurant in recent memory.
“Not just the profits. Not a percentage. ALL OF IT!” the post added, referring to other benefits that pledge a “portion of the proceeds” or “portion of the profits” to a cause.
La Bistro, 722 Grapevine Highway, Hurst, is an old-time fine-dining Italian restaurant open nightly for dinner.
“This morning, I sat in church reading about the flood,” a family member wrote, signing the message “the Beno family.”
“Many of you know our own children — a three-year-old and a four-year-old who run through La Bistro like they own the place. ... I thought about our little ones and the parents who are now living every parent’s worst nightmare — and it brought tears to my eyes.
“I may not have the power to change what happened, but I do have the power to feed people. ... Enjoy a good meal with the people you love and help support fellow Texans who are living through heartbreak and need their neighbors more than ever.”
Within the first eight hours, the post had been shared to other pages 750 times.
La Bistro is rated a “diners’ choice” by OpenTable.com, 4.5 stars by Google.com reviewers and 4 stars on Yelp.com.
The most popular dishes are the lobster bisque, spaghetti, tiramisu, chicken Marsala, lamb chops and sea bass, along with steaks “on the rocks” cooked at the table over heated lava stones.
When North Texas Italian restaurateur Robert Pjetrovi? founded La Bistro, it was one of only two fine-dining restaurants in the north Tarrant County suburbs, along with the Pjetrovi? family’s now-gone La Bella in Bedford.
The Benouared family, Mediterranean restaurateurs of Algerian descent, bought it in 2016 and kept it as a fine-dining classic.
The restaurant won media attention in 2020 for hosting its own high school senior proms for graduates whose senior year had been spent home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The restaurant is taking reservations by phone only for July 7-10, not on OpenTable.com as usual; 817-281-9333, facebook.com/labistrotx.