The White Settlement Historical Museum hosts outdoor living-history programming where volunteers in period dress bring the community’s WWII bomber plant heritage and early Texas history to life. By the time a morning at the museum wraps up, a lot of families are ready for a serious meal. Joe’s Pizza Italian Cuisine & Bar in Fort Worth’s Wedgwood neighborhood is southeast.
White Settlement, TX: History and Community in Equal Parts
White Settlement is one of those Tarrant County cities with a name that’s harder to explain than its character. The community of roughly 16,000 sits just northwest of downtown Fort Worth, bordered by Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth to the south. The city’s B-24 Liberator bomber connection — one of the largest WWII-era manufacturing facilities in the country operated here at what was then Consolidated Aircraft Corporation — gives White Settlement a specific kind of civic pride that shows up in the historical museum and the people who’ve lived here for generations.
The White Settlement Historical Museum hosts outdoor period demonstrations and storytelling programming through the year. It’s the kind of thing that makes you feel good about where you live — and hungry by the time a morning there wraps up.
After a Morning Outdoors, You’ve Earned a Real Dinner
A morning at an outdoor history program — two or three hours on your feet, kids running between demonstration stations, adults reading exhibit signs in the sun — leaves a specific kind of hunger that a fast-food drive-through doesn’t resolve. You want a table. A menu with real options. Something that acknowledges you had a good morning and deserve to finish the day properly.
Joe’s Pizza Italian Cuisine & Bar is that restaurant. It’s open from 11:00 AM, so a mid-afternoon arrival is well within the lunch-to-dinner window. The kitchen doesn’t change over — the full Italian menu runs all day.
Call ahead on event days: (817) 945-1765. Placing a phone order before you leave White Settlement means the food is ready when you arrive. No wait, no scramble — just dinner.
White Settlement to Wedgwood
From the White Settlement Historical Museum on White Settlement Road, take White Settlement Road east. The road transitions to University Drive as you cross into Fort Worth. Continue south on University Drive through the Hulen corridor into the Wedgwood neighborhood. Free parking at 5440 Gran Via St — no garage, no meters, no stress after a morning that already required walking.
For White Settlement families who prefer to stay home after a busy day: Joe’s Pizza Italian Cuisine & Bar delivers via DoorDash, UberEats, GrubHub, and Slice. Phone orders for takeout at (817) 945-1765. Check the coupons page for current takeout deals before you order.
What Are You in the Mood For?
What to order after a morning outdoors depends on what the day wore you out for:
Craving Something Quick and Familiar?
The New York-style pizza is the immediate answer — a few slices or a whole pie built to order. Hand-tossed, crisps the right way, and has enough structural integrity to hold its toppings without going limp.
Craving a Full Sit-Down Plate?
The pasta section covers it: baked lasagna, spaghetti with scratch Bolognese, fettuccine Alfredo, and cannelloni, with sauces made in the kitchen rather than opened from a package.
Craving the Kitchen’s Best Case?
The dinner specials: Italian Sampler ($18.00) puts chicken, lasagna, cannelloni, and ravioli in pepper cream sauce on one plate — ideal for a first visit or a table that wants to try everything. Chicken Luigi ($22.00) — stuffed chicken with shrimp, spinach, and crab in vodka pink cream sauce — is what regulars order when they want to show someone else what this kitchen can do. The full bar means the meal ends properly for the adults at the table.