Eats Beat: Nearly Market time, plus Greek Fest in Euless

The new FW Market + Table will open by Monday.

But chef Kalen Morgenstern’s menu is full of surprises.

The Table dining room side will feature halibut, salmon, maple-ancho pork tenderloin or a vegetable-ribbon “pasta,” with sides such as a broccolini wedge, a pea-fava salad or a Green Goddess salad.

The Market lighter side will open early to offer nine juices and breakfast dishes such as an egg-white frittata, a quinoa bowl, egg pancakes with bananas, or breakfast sandwiches with egg whites and turkey bacon.

Lunches at the Market include burgers, flatbreads, and turkey, chicken and ham sandwiches. There’s also a huge dessert menu with cookies and brownies.

It’s meant to be a lighter-side restaurant but with familiar dishes.

Market will open at 7 a.m. weekdays and Saturdays, 9 a.m. Sundays. Table will open Wednesdays through Saturdays for dinner, both at 2933 Crockett St.; 817-850-9255, fwmarketandtable.com.

Greeked out

The fun begins Friday at the Mid-Cities Greek Fest.

The annual festival in Euless features sampler dinners ($15-$20) with Greek chicken, dolmades, spanakopita (spinach pie), and salad, a la carte dishes such as gyros, souvlaki, and desserts such as baklava, also served with ice cream as a “baklava sundae.”

It opens at 11 a.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday outside St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, 303 Cullum Drive, Euless, just south of the Airport Freeway; 817-545-9644, midcitiesgreekfest.info.

Goodbye, Godbey’s

Vance Godbey’s is gone as a restaurant for now, but not forever.

After serving 3,000 guests the past two Sundays, owner Carol Godbey said she might offer an occasional pop-up dinner along with continued special events and catering.

But Vance Godbey’s will be closed Thanksgiving and Christmas, ending a holiday tradition on Texas 199.

“I’ve never had a Thanksgiving off and I’ve never had a Christmas,” said Carol Godbey, daughter of late grocer, pitmaster and philanthropist Vance Godbey.

Her father bought a chain of barbecue stands in the 1940s and opened the restaurant on Easter 1956.

“If Dad knew we were still here,” she said, “he would want us to close holidays. He’d say, ‘You girls need a break!’ ”

Customers came from Arizona and Florida for a last remembrance and a last platter of fried catfish, chicken-fried chicken, fried cauliflower or bread pudding, she said.

Insiders will get the first info on special events on Facebook or by signing up for emails at vancegodbeys.com.

Burgers by boat

Straight from downtown Azle, Red’s Burger House has opened a second location at Lakeview Marina on the east shore of Eagle Mountain Lake.

The new Red’s is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays; 6680 E. Peden Road, 817-236-6677, redsburgerhouse.com.

This story was originally published October 12, 2015 at 2:14 PM with the headline "Eats Beat: Nearly Market time, plus Greek Fest in Euless."