For National Cheeseburger Day, here are 3 new burgers in the Fort Worth Stockyards
On National Cheeseburger Day Friday, where better to go than the Fort Worth Stockyards?
You know about the two dueling Shacks on East Exchange Avenue — Love and Shake.
But the Stockyards also has some new cheeseburger choices, including one in the $175 million new Mule Alley:
▪ The Biscuit Bar, 128 E. Exchange Ave. on Mule Alley, offers 18 biscuit sandwiches, including a “B-Bar Burger.”
The Plano-based company is new in Fort Worth and brings an astounding selection of chicken biscuit sandwiches, all served on a bun-sized flaky, buttery biscuit with tater tots or sweet potato tots.
It might not sound like the place to go on Cheeseburger Day.
But the “B-Bar Burger” is a double cheddar-Jack burger ($7.70) with pickles and onion. The biscuit is a big upgrade from other restaurants’ lifeless, soggy bun.
(But substitute another sauce for the Dijon aioli. It’s too little Dijon, too much aioli.)
There’s also a bacon-cheddar-burger-chicken combination called the “Rough Night” ($13.10).
If you’re not going for the cheeseburger, the menu mainly features Nashville hot chicken biscuits and other bacon, sausage or chicken biscuits ($4.20-$6.60). A simple biscuit with house-made, original recipe sausage gravy is $4.50.
Tater tots come plain ($3.50) or topped with bacon and cheese, gravy and cheese, taco-style with cheese and pico de gallo, or sweet with marshmallow and brown sugar-pecan streusel (all $6).
For lighter diners, there’s also five salads with chicken, a cranberry-pecan mix, a Caesar or a steak-and-blue-cheese salad (all $8.20-$10.80).
It’s open for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily; 817-912-5922, thebiscuit.bar.
▪ The Honky Tonk Kitchen inside Billy Bob’s Texas, 2520 Rodeo Plaza, serves a choice of six double cheeseburgers daily, and they’ve started to gain a reputation all their own.
The country-western nightclub is operating as a restaurant now during coronavirus restrictions, bringing more attention to chef Chris Fersch’s menu of Akaushi wagyu steaks., chicken, salads, desserts and Cooper’s Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que plates and sandwiches.
The burgers are a good deal at $9-$11, including fries or sweet-potato waffle fries.
A fried candied jalapeno-pepper Jack burger features both spicy chipotle mustard and the sweet taste of lightly candied jalapenos.
Other burgers include a “Boomtown” cheeseburger, a bacon cheddar-burger, a Gorgonzola burger (I’d add bacon) and a portobello-Swiss burger. There’s also a patty melt.
Fersch plans to add more Honky Tonk Kitchen burgers in October, including an enchilada burger with his first-rate chili con carne, an Italian burger with marinara and spicy soppressata, a “Firecracker” burger with a Tennessee hot crispy beef patty and a Gochujang spicy cheddar-burger on a pretzel bun.
Admission is $3, but the prices are reasonable. (Park across Stockyards Boulevard near Cooper’s, not in the pay lot behind the club.)
Billy Bob’s opens at 11 a.m. weekdays and Saturdays, noon Sundays; 817-624-7117, billybobstexas.com/menu.
▪ Provender Hall, 123 E. Exchange Ave., is the newest venture from chef Marcus Paslay, meaning it has a powerful cheeseburger legacy.
Paslay’s burger at Clay Pigeon Food + Drink is ranked with the city’s best, at least when it’s on the menu.
Provender has a no-nonsense cheeseburger on the menu all the time. It’s a cheeseburger with special sauce and fries, $14.
That’s not as cheap as at Shake Shack next door, but Shake Shack doesn’t have Provender’s skillet cornbread, chicken-sausage gumbo, grilled trout or chocolate sheath cake.
It’s open for dinner nightly except Mondays and Tuesdays; 817-782-9170, provenderhall.com
This story was originally published September 15, 2020 at 5:45 AM.
