For Mardi Gras, Tributary Cafe serves up not only Cajun food but holiday tradition
It’s Mardi Gras weekend, meaning Fort Worth’s little Louisiana-style Tributary Cafe is ready to celebrate.
Tributary will anchor the Race Street Mardi Gras parade and festival Saturday. It’s Fort Worth’s only Mardi Gras parade, although there are other events in Oak Cliff and other cities.
Tributary Cafe, 2813 Race St., is known for gumbo and shrimp dishes, but also serves Louisiana fried chicken.
Chef Cindy Wheeler used to run a Creole cafe in Waxahachie before managing Nonna Tata for years.
Tributary Cafe has Nonna Tata’s homespun touch, but with a bar, patio and bands enhancing the Louisiana atmosphere.
For Mardi Gras, Tributary always adds a crawfish boil and beignets, along with its regular menu of crawfish etouffee, blackened pork chops, barbecued shrimp and appetizers such as crawfish hoecakes or shrimp remoulade.
Tributary is open for lunch and dinner Tuesdays through Saturdays and for brunch Sundays, when the menu includes shrimp- or ham-and-grits; 817-744-8255, tributarycafe.com.
Bird Cafe menu
Bird Cafe, 155 E. Fourth St. in downtown Fort Worth is offering a Mardi Gras menu featuring blackened catfish or smothered Creole pork loin, along with dulce de leche bread pudding.
Bird serves lunch or brunch and dinner daily; 817-332-2473, birdinthe.net.
This story was originally published February 20, 2020 at 5:45 AM.
