No soup for you! Empty Bowls hunger benefit in Fort Worth postponed over coronavirus
(UPDATE: The Empty Bowls benefit has been postponed and will be rescheduled, the Tarrant Area Food Bank announced Friday.)
You’ve gone to food fests and beer fests and taco fests and rib fests.
How about a soup fest?
The region’s annual Empty Bowls soup festival and charity fundraiser is March 17 in Fort Worth, featuring the best soups, stews and desserts from 40 local restaurants.
Not every dish is soup. The Paris Coffee Shop’s pies go quickly, along with Hurts Donut doughnut holes.
But Empty Bowls has more great soups than you’ve ever seen in one place.
Known for soups, the Buffet at the Kimbell Art Museum will serve green gazpacho.
Try Rise nº3 Salon de Soufflé’s marshmallow soup, or Bob’s Steak & Chop House’s lobster bisque.
You can try two pozoles this year, one from Bird Cafe and another from Bonnell’s.
There’s also the legendary Riscky’s BBQ brick chili from the original Azle Avenue store and Southwestern chowder from Reata.
For non-soupy dishes, the new Meat Board gourmet butcher shop is serving green chile-hominy casserole.
Compare Neiman Marcus’ NM Cafe chicken salad to Z’s Cafe’s, and add meatballs from Aventino’s Italian and Fixture Kitchen.
Texas de Brazil will serve the heartiest lunch: chimichurri steak.
Tickets are $65 for admission at 11 a.m. or $150 for early VIP admission at 10:30 a.m.
It’s all a benefit for the local hunger charity for Tarrant and surrounding counties, the Tarrant Area Food Bank.
For information, see tafb.org.
This story was originally published March 12, 2020 at 5:45 AM.
