‘The food is amazing’: A local favorite for Mediterranean on Fort Worth west side
Nish! Mediterranean Grill, River Oaks ($-$)
- Where is this restaurant? 4913 Ohio Garden Road, River Oaks (just off River Oaks Boulevard)
- What readers recommend about the restaurant:
“The food is amazing, and for the price you won’t find higher quality and large amounts of food. This is a family-owned restaurant (the owner is ALWAYS in the kitchen cooking while smiling and greeting his customers) but the whole family are sweethearts.”
“The chicken kabobs and lamb kabobs are my go-to, and both are amazing. Their baba ganoush is the best in town. If you want to splurge, the lamb chops will blow your mind.”
- What else to know:
Anwar Khalil and his family opened Nish! in 2019. He told the Star-Telegram’s Bud Kennedy in 2021 that he wanted to make Mediterranean meals the way his family cooked in a small town near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Portions are indeed generous. In addition to large dinner platters of shawarma, kebabs, seafood or lamb, Nish! has one of the better dessert selections for a Mediterranean restaurant, ranging from baklava and tiramisu to rice pudding with coconut, loukoumades (doughnuts) and rich basbousa cake, made with semolina flour.
“We make everything and serve it the way we make it ourselves at home,” Khalil told us.
Nish! is open 11 a.m.-9 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and noon to 8 p.m. Sundays. It’s a great option for carryout, too. See the full menu here.
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This story was originally published December 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM.
