Restaurants

This Mexican restaurant on Hemphill has been a Fort Worth favorite for 33 years

Each week, we spotlight a "hidden-gem" restaurant in the Fort Worth area that you, our readers, recommend checking out.

These local, mom-and-pop restaurants may not be the biggest or fanciest in town. But the food is delicious, the service is friendly and the price is right.

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Birrieria Los Chivos de Oro ($-$), Hemphill Street

Where is this restaurant? 4351 Hemphill St.

What readers recommend about Birrieria Los Chivos de Oro: “We just found out about it. The menu is loaded with enough enticing items to warrant at least five or six trips. All the meat items are done with cabrito, which is a huge selling point. Don’t be afraid of it, if you haven’t tried it. It’s delicious!”

What else to know: This traditional family-owned Mexican restaurant has been around since 1993, “carrying the recipes of our hometown in Nochistlán, Zacatecas to the heart of Fort Worth.” Customers flock here for their specialty birria. Says one Yelp reviewer: “If you want the real deal Birria and an authentic Mexican food restaurant, this is the place!! Everything here is amazing and will leave you feeling ready for nap time.”

See the full menu. The hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Wednesday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.


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This story was originally published February 18, 2026 at 11:20 AM.

Matt Leclercq
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Matt Leclercq is senior managing editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He previously was an editor at USA Today in Washington, national news editor at Gatehouse Media in Austin, and executive editor of The Fayetteville (NC) Observer. He’s a New Orleans native.
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