Eats Beat

Winter Restaurant Week means $29-$49 dinner specials, including Rise nº3, Paris 7th

An $11 lunch special at Bartaco: fish, chicken and carnitas tacos and chicken soup, plus (it’s extra) a tres leches cake jar dessert.
An $11 lunch special at Bartaco: fish, chicken and carnitas tacos and chicken soup, plus (it’s extra) a tres leches cake jar dessert. bud@star-telegram.com

If you saved up your money or calories over the holidays, it;s time to spend them on something fun.

Winter Restaurant Week starts Jan. 6, featuring $29-$49 three-course dinners from restaurants from Fort Worth to Flower Mound with $5-$7 of each dinner going to charity.

That’s not as generous at the DFW Restaurant Week summer offer. But it’s still a chance to dine somewhere new or different and support the Tarrant Area Food Bank hunger agency or GRACE Grapevine relief agency.

The best deal is the $29 dinner at Bartaco.

From Jan. 6-26, Bartaco offers its three-taco plate with a choice of fish, chicken, carnitas, miso cod, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts or portobello tacos.

That comes with two side dishes such as elote, rice, beans, slaw or pineapple.

There’s also a starter of guacamole — Bartaco’s is great — and a dessert of either a tres leches cake jar or a Key lime pie jar.

The $39 restaurants include one of our best — Rise nº3, offering a choice of three savory soufflés and four dessert soufflés — plus a full steak, salmon or scallops dinner at Silver Fox with salad and chocolate ganache cake.

Restaurants offering $49 menus include some of the city’s best: steak or surf-and-turf at B&B Butchers, the famous bison strip at Bonnell’s or a rare Paris 7th special of lamb chops, beef tournedos with crab cake or a fish of the day, with escargots and an apple tart.

Thirty restaurants are offering specials, most Jan. 6-26 but some for only one or two weeks; For more information, see 360westmagazine.com/winter-restaurant-week.

This story was originally published January 2, 2020 at 5:45 AM.

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Bud Kennedy is celebrating his 40th year writing about restaurants in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He has written the “Eats Beat” dining column in print since 1985 and online since 1992 — that’s more than 3,000 columns about Texas cafes, barbecue, burgers and where to eat. Support my work with a digital subscription
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