A new seafood restaurant has opened at the Kozy Hotel in Bedford, serving up seafood pasta, steaks, and cocktails to hotel guests and walk-in diners alike. The Anchor Room sits attached to the hotel at 3005 Airport Fwy. but operates with its own separate entrance, giving it the feel of a standalone restaurant rather than just another hotel dining room.
The restaurant comes from Blain Bastow, who also owns Quickie Crab Cajun Seafood Kitchen in Lewisville with his wife, Thanh Tran Bastow, according to CultureMap Fort Worth. Bastow describes the new spot as designed to be a more refined dining experience, a step up from the casual Cajun seafood shack he and his wife run elsewhere in the metroplex. On its own site, The Anchor Room bills itself as a coastal-inspired dining experience built around seafood and handcrafted pastas.
What's on the Menu
The food leans heavily into seafood and comfort, with dishes like seafood pasta loaded with shrimp, crawfish, and crab, plus shrimp and grits and spiced redfish served over yellow fried rice. Other options include crab cakes, chicken meatballs over fettuccine, salt and pepper chicken wings, a Cobb salad, and beef short rib with garlic mashed potatoes, per the same account. For those wanting something heartier, there's a steak frites featuring a 12-ounce New York strip served with truffle fries.
Prices span a wide range, running from $16 for the shrimp and grits up to $36 for the steak frites. The restaurant also runs a full bar program with cocktails, beer on tap, and a wine selection, including a spicy watermelon margarita on the drink list. The Anchor Room reportedly lists dine-in hours daily from 11 am to 10 pm, with room service available daily from 11 am to 9:30 pm, according to a Facebook listing cited in the report.
A Former Holiday Inn Gets a New Identity
The Kozy Hotel itself is part of a broader rebranding effort. Kozy is a hotel brand from Kapstones, a Florida-based private equity and real estate investment firm, which opened the Bedford location in May 2026 inside a former Holiday Inn. The property sits roughly seven miles from DFW Airport, per CultureMap's reporting, though Kapstones' own project page describes the site as six miles from the airport — a discrepancy the two sources don't reconcile.
Bedford marks one stop in Kapstones' expansion of the Kozy brand, which debuted in 2025 with a Houston property converted from a former Hilton Garden Inn. The company has been converting existing hotels into the Kozy name as it grows the brand across Texas.
Bastow's Track Record in Dallas-Area Food and Drink
Bastow's resume extends beyond Quickie Crab and The Anchor Room. He has experience with Mad Dog 159 in Pennsylvania and Crab N Bar, and he previously opened Texas Wine & Wood, a Dallas paint-and-sip business that has since closed, the CultureMap report notes.
Quickie Crab itself made unrelated headlines earlier this year. In March 2026, a car crashed through the front of the Lewisville restaurant, and about a week later someone broke in, drawing coverage from WFAA, Fox, NBC, Telemundo, and Univision. Separately, Bastow has a personal claim to local fame: back in 2017, he recited his wedding vows over a Southwest Airlines flight intercom.
