About
Our Story
Two hospitality veterans, one bold idea: Italian soul, Texas spirit.
The Founders
Jeffrey Yarbrough & Camille McDonald
Two hospitality veterans, one bold idea: a restaurant that feels like a saloon, cooks like a trattoria, and welcomes everyone like family.
Founding Partner
Jeffrey Yarbrough
With over 25 years as an entrepreneur, restaurateur, and real estate professional, Jeffrey built Dallas’ iconic Art Bar / Blind Lemon / Club Clearview / Red complex, partnered with Annie Wong on Liberty Noodles, opened Teddy Wong’s Dumpling and Wine with Chef Patrick Ru, and runs bigInk Commercial Real Estate. He brings insight, experience, and integrity to every room he builds.
Founding Partner
Camille McDonald
A TCU graduate and Certified Sommelier, Camille grew up in her family’s Arlington inn, The Sanford House, before spending a decade in restaurant operations, wine, and winemaking — including three years in Napa Valley with Patz & Hall and Celia Welch Consulting. She was the opening General Manager of Teddy Wong’s, where she met Jeffrey Yarbrough; their shared passion for hospitality and Fort Worth led to La Pistola.
The Namesake
“La Pistola” — quick, sure, and never without style.
Our name is a nod to the spaghetti westerns shot on Italian soundstages and set on dusty frontier streets — the same collision of Italian craft and western grit we bring to the plate and the bar every night.
The Concept
Kitchen Meets Saloon
The name says it all — a kitchen serving thoughtful, ingredient-driven Italian-American food, paired with a saloon that never takes itself too seriously. Reclaimed wood, brass fixtures, and warm low light set the mood for long dinners and later nights.
Every detail, from the handwritten specials to the vintage-inspired bar, is designed to make you feel like a regular from your very first visit.
The Team
Who You'll Meet
A restaurant is only as good as the people running the floor, the line and the bar. Ours are career hospitality folks — the kind who remember your usual table and your usual pour.
Chuckwagon Boss and Executive Chef
Austin Wyatt
A Peaster native, Austin has known since he was a teenager that he belonged in a kitchen. He began cooking professionally at sixteen and went on to earn both bachelor’s and associate degrees in culinary arts from The Culinary School of Fort Worth. He built his career in respected DFW kitchens, most recently as an executive sous chef, training under chefs Jason Harper and Josh Harmon, who helped shape his approach to cooking, leadership and the kind of kitchen he hoped to create one day. For Austin, the kitchen has always been about more than the food — he loves teaching his cooks, watching them grow and preparing family meals that bring the team together before service. At La Pistola he brings his creativity and classic technique to house-made pastas, steaks, roasted chicken, seafood and dishes with plenty of personality: a little Italian, unmistakably Texan and never too serious to have some fun. When he isn’t in the kitchen, his favorite role is being a husband and dad; he lives in Peaster with his wife and their two children.
The Art
Stewart Cohen & the Girls on the Walls
The portraits watching over the dining room are the work of photographer Stewart Cohen — a Texas-based image-maker known for finding the unguarded moment in a face. His women, shot large and in black and white, are the visual spine of La Pistola.
They aren't decoration. They're the cast: the outlaw, the traveler, the woman who walked into the saloon and didn't explain herself. Hung salon-style on manor-dark walls under warm picture lights, they turn dinner into a scene from a film you half remember — Italian craft, western grit, and a room full of people who look like they have a story.
Ask your server which one is which. Everyone here has a favorite.
The Room
Inside La Pistola
Low light, dark wood, brass and leather — built for long dinners and later nights.
Find Us
Fort Worth, Texas
1812 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107