After months of anticipation, Taste Project is excited to announce the grand opening of its second Taste Community Restaurant in Arlington. Located at 200 North Cooper Street, just north of The University of Texas at Arlington, the new restaurant opened its doors to the public on Wednesday, March 5th at 11:00am. In line with its original location, the Arlington restaurant offers healthy, high-quality meals made from locally sourced seasonal ingredients with no set menu prices.

We have officially served over 250,000 meals at Taste Community Restaurant! This is an amazing milestone that demonstrates what God can accomplish through Taste Project. To all of our staff, volunteers, diners, and donors, thank you for allowing God to use you to help people in our community ‘taste and see that the Lord is good’ (Psalm 34:8).

Renowned TikTok food critic and mixed martial artist, Keith Lee, surprised restaurant-goers and staff at Taste Project’s Taste Community Restaurant in Fort Worth last Thursday, his first and only Fort Worth stop on his DFW Food Tour. Lee is best known by his 16 million social media followers for making unplanned visits to local restaurants in various U.S. cities to sample and rate the food on a scale from 1 to 10.

With funding from Texas Health Resources, Taste Project established the Improving Health Equity Among Low-Income Adults (iHEAL) Collaborative to address persistent health equity needs in Tarrant County. Our partners provide free resources on-site at Taste Community Restaurant including financial literacy workshops, one-on-one financial coaching, nutrition counseling, and basic health assessments.

We announced our partnership with the City of Arlington to bring our pay-what-you-can community restaurant concept to the heart of Downtown Arlington. Like in Fort Worth, the future Arlington restaurant will have no listed menu prices for its healthy, high-quality meals, which are made from local seasonal ingredients.

We have officially served over 100,000 meals at Taste Community Restaurant! Thank you to all of our staff, volunteers, diners, and donors for allowing God to use you to help people in our community ‘taste and see that the Lord is good’ (Psalm 34:8).

We expanded our programming to address the root causes of hunger through certified job training. Fort Worx provides tuition-free, certified, paid job training for adults with barriers to employment hands-on at Taste Community Restaurant.

Our Accelerated Certified Fundamental Cook (CFC) Apprenticeship track, also known as Fort Worx, is a collaboration between Taste Project and Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County.  It combines hands-on work experience on-site at Taste Community Restaurant with one-on-one coaching and faith-based discipleship.

Apprentices spend 16 weeks learning the fundamentals of food preparation hands-on in a working full-service restaurant at Taste Community Restaurant.

• Accelerated 16-week work schedule.

• American Culinary Federation Certified Program.

• Up to 500 hours paid work experience.*

• Job placement support.

• No previous foodservice or work experience required.

*Restrictions apply.‍ ‍

During the COVID-19 pandemic we maintained 100% of our service days and made room for more guests with additional patio seating and a community garden.

In light of the COVID-19 mandates and recommendations by the Tarrant County Public Health Department and the City of Fort Worth, and to help keep our community safe, Taste Community Restaurant closed the dining room to the public for approximately 45 days. However, Taste Project declared it would be “Open for Good” and began serving to-go meals for those individuals and families who depended on us for healthy and nutritious food.

United Way of Tarrant County helped us expand our hours to include breakfast on weekdays and brunch on weekends. This expansion allowed us to meet the growing needs of our community.

With over 600,000 restaurants across the U.S., it can be hard to decide where to eat. But Yelp has narrowed down the selections to the top 100 dining experiences you need to take note of and visit in the new year. And, coming in at #74 is Fort Worth’s nonprofit pay-what-you-can restaurant: Taste Community Restaurant.