Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom has closed its last North Texas restaurant, shutting down the Presidio Crossing location in the Alliance area of north Fort Worth after about 10 years in business. The closure happened quietly this October, and the chain's website now lists only one remaining Texas location, in Waco.
News of the shutdown first surfaced through Yelp reviewers noting the restaurant had closed, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The equipment that once filled the Presidio Crossing kitchen, along with its beer taps, was being sold off through a Facebook liquidation listing posted by Business Liquidation. Old Chicago's own website confirms the retreat, now pointing Texas customers to a single remaining restaurant at 4641 S. Jack Kultgen Expressway in Waco, according to Old Chicago's own location listing.
The Fort Worth restaurant had built a loyal following around its beer list, pouring roughly 25 drafts, including North Texas brews, with about 50 more bottled options behind the bar. The menu leaned into Chicago staples, too: thick deep-dish and thin tavern-style cracker-crust pizzas, plus calzones, wings and pepperoni rolls, the kind of lineup that made Old Chicago a fixture for beer-and-pizza nights across its 10-year run in the Alliance area.
A Decade-Long Texas Retreat
This is not the first time North Texas has watched an Old Chicago go dark. A Garland store and two Dallas-area locations closed at the same time back in 2020, a round of closures tied to business decisions, the station's report notes. That earlier wave also included the chain's Mockingbird Station restaurant in Dallas and its Highway 67 location in Cedar Hill, which the Dallas Morning News reported had permanently shut by February 2020, leaving only the Garland and Fort Worth restaurants standing in Dallas-Fort Worth at that time.
Corporate ownership has shifted around Old Chicago in the years since. SPB Hospitality owned the chain before selling off its brewery brands in 2025, and the buyer of those brands has not been disclosed. Separately, Restaurant Business reported that SPB sold the 60-unit Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom chain itself after roughly five years of ownership, with no buyer or sale price disclosed; SPB had acquired Old Chicago in 2020 when it bought brewery group CraftWorks Holdings for $93 million. Old Chicago now operates 47 locations across 17 states, per the Star-Telegram, though it is unclear whether that figure and the earlier 60-unit count reflect the same point in time.
The contraction tracks with broader industry data. Old Chicago closed 50 locations between 2019 and 2024, according to Technomic figures cited by Restaurant Business, while the chain's systemwide sales dropped more than 16% to $155.4 million in the most recent year reported. Fort Worth's closure was not an isolated event outside Texas, either — in Colorado Springs, an Old Chicago location shut down in June 2025, the second closure there in about two months and the fourth in recent years, leaving just one restaurant open in that city, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.
New Pizza Concepts Line Up For Alliance
Old Chicago's exit lands just as the Alliance area is filling back up with pizza options. Hideaway Pizza, an Oklahoma chain, has kept drawing crowds since opening in the area in August 2025. The two-story restaurant at 9800 N. Freeway opened as Hideaway's 24th location and its third in Texas, offering fluffy-crusted specialty pizzas and fried mushrooms for dine-in, carryout and delivery seven days a week, according to Hideaway Pizza's own announcement.
Also on the way is Pizza Guys, a Sacramento-based chain that first opened in 1986 and has been ranked among Yelp's top pizza chains. Pizza Guys plans to open its first Tarrant County location at 3529 Heritage Trace Parkway, Suite 119, in the Alliance area in early 2027, serving pizzas made with fresh dough, whole milk mozzarella and California-grown tomatoes, the Star-Telegram reported in a separate story.
A drive-through concept called Za Zoom is also headed for North Tarrant Parkway in Fort Worth, though an opening date has not been set because construction has only just begun. At least five new pizzerias have opened in the Fort Worth area since 2025, with more on the way, the Star-Telegram's broader survey of the local pizza scene found, as Old Chicago's long run in North Texas comes to a close just as a new generation of pizza concepts moves in.
