written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . april 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message reata restaurant type private industry restaurants founded in 1995 in alpine texas headquarters fort worth texas key people mike micallef president al micallef founder products food service number of employees 175 slogan legendary texas cooking website reata.net reata restaurant is a texas cuisine based restaurant group founded by al micallef with operating interests in alpine and fort worth texas . the reata restaurant group has operated its flagship restaurant in the old caravan of dreams since may 2002 . 1 reata at the rodeo reata at the backstage and la espuela mexican cantina are reata run restaurants at the annual fort worth stock show and rodeo for 3 weeks starting in mid january through the beginning of february . 2 3 4 5 6 in addition they provide an event production catering service called reata on the road . 7 reata also produces a line of gourmet bakeware and a cookbook reata legendary texas cooking . 8 9 10 11 contents 1 history 2 chefs 3 locations 4 references history edit the restaurant was founded by al micallef in alpine texas in 1995 . the name reata is spanish for rope which was inspired from the novel giant by edna ferber . in 1996 the reata opened its second location in fort worth texas on the 35th floor of the bank one tower . following a devastating f2 tornado on march 28 2000 reata was hit and forced to close . 12 13 14 15 16 within 6 weeks the restaurant was rebuilt and operational in the original location that was hit by the tornado . in january 2001 the restaurant was once again forced to close and re opened in may 2002 in the building that previously known as the caravan of dreams . in 2001 between the time reata had to close in the bank one tower and re opening in sundance square the reata started a catering division with a 3000sq . ft. commercial kitchen called reata on the road . in 2002 reata opened a facility called reata at the rodeo located in the amon carter exhibits hall to serve the fort worth stock show and rodeo . in 2007 reata took over operation of the backstage club at the fort worth stock show and rodeo renaming it reata at the backstage club . in the fall of 2008 a cookbook authored by mike micallef was released called reata legendary texas cooking . 8 9 10 11 this cookbook is sold through amazon and the reata store . in january 2010 reata opened a mexican cuisine based restaurant at the fort worth stock show and rodeo . it is called la espuela . 4 chefs edit notable chefs 17 that started their careers at the reata include grady spears tim love brian olenjack and tod phillips . locations edit reata fort worth sundance square fort worth texas reata at the rodeo operated during the fort worth stock show and rodeo reata at the backstage club operated during the fort worth stock show and rodeo laespuela operated during the fort worth stock show and rodeo reata alpine alpine texas references edit http www.fortwortharchitecture.com caravan.htm fort worth stock show and rodeo . fwssr.com . 2010 02 07 . retrieved 2010 02 13 . reata to take over operations at backstage club at fort worth stock and rodeo show www.pegasusnews.com dallas fort worth . www.pegasusnews.com . 2007 10 22 . retrieved 2010 02 13 . a b fort worth business press 2009 10 19 . reata to offer lower priced fare at new restaurant at 2010 stock show fort worth business press . fwbusinesspress.com . retrieved 2010 02 13 . fort worth business press 2007 10 22 . reata revamps backstage club at the fort worth stock show fort worth business press . fwbusinesspress.com . retrieved 2010 02 13 . reata announces temporary restaurants going up for fort worth stock show & rodeo . topix . 2010 01 10 . retrieved 2010 02 13 . micallef mike ; hatch julie ; smith laurie 2009 . reata legendary texas cooking google books . books.google.com . isbn 978 1 58008 906 7 . retrieved 2010 02 13 . a b reata mike micallef book barnes & noble . search.barnesandnoble.com . retrieved 2010 02 13 . a b reata legendary texas cooking 9781580089067 mike micallef julie hatch laurie smith books . amazon.com . isbn 1580089062 . missing or empty url help a b reata by mike micallef hardcover random house read an excerpt . random house . retrieved 2010 02 13 . a b try the reata chipotle brownie from the book reata legendary texas cuisine news for dallas texas dallas morning news recipes food dallas morning news . dallasnews.com . 2009 01 29 . retrieved 2010 02 13 . fort worth tornado a year later . durangotexas.com . retrieved 2010 02 13 . fort worth tornado may 28 2000 . fortwortharchitecture.com . retrieved 2010 02 13 . dallas dining up in the air page 1 . dallasobserver.com . 2000 10 05 . retrieved 2010 02 13 . baker sandra 2001 02 26 . article fort worth texas officials plan to close bank one s tornado damaged ... accessmylibrary promoting library advocacy . accessmylibrary . retrieved 2010 02 13 . restaurant review reata dallas fort worth restaurants news and reviews news for dallas texas dallas morning news . dallasnews.com . 2009 05 27 . retrieved 2010 02 13 . fort worth weekly news entertainment restaurants music . fwweekly.com . retrieved 2010 02 13 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title reata restaurant & oldid 741054598 categories companies based in fort worth texasrestaurants established in 1995regional restaurant chains in the united statesrestaurants in texashidden categories pages using web citations with no urlarticles with a promotional tone from april 2010all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 25 september 2016 at 03 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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