My dinner guest turned to me with a grin, wide-eyed, during a recent dinner at Lonesome Dove Western Bistro.

“I really feel like I’m in Texas,” she said with a faint chuckle and mixture of awe and confusion.

A native Southerner, she’s lived in Austin for more than two years. But it was a visit to the Warehouse District outpost of Fort Worth celebrity chef Tim Love’s restaurant that made her fully understand the difference between the town she’s grown to call home and the outsider’s stereotype of Texas.

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