What’s open after midnight in Fort Worth? Here’s where to eat if you’re out late
The hour was late, and new Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker and her family had spent all night celebrating her victory.
But on that June 5 election night, there was one task left for parents with small children:
Dinner.
The First Family of Fort Worth celebrated victory in solitude at the iHOP, because the weary Parkers couldn’t think of a better restaurant open that late.
The pickings are definitely. But two popular local restaurants serve a menu until 2 a.m. every night, and several more serve until midnight:
▪ Rogers Roundhouse, a patio bar-grill-and-playground at 1616 Rogers Road near University Park Village, serves a short menu until 2 a.m. every night: a huge smoked-turkey-and-cheddar wrap with chips ($12) or the notable nachos ($10).
Until midnight every night, Rogers serves the entire first-rate menu: double-decker cheddar burgers with “Rogers’ sauce,” exceptional custom hot dogs, salads, spicy chicken sandwiches and the Roundhouse’s legendary loaded and seasoned tater tots.
The Roundhouse also serves two ace-in-the-hole desserts: funnel cake ($5) or ice cream sandwiches made with Curly’s Frozen Custard.
Rogers has all the spirit of Fort Worth’s familiar patio burger house. It’s on a backroad off South University Drive, near the site of the old Union Pacific railyard “roundhouse.”
It’s open for lunch, weekend brunch, dinner and late-night eats nightly; 817-367-9348, rogersroundhouse.com.
▪ Buffalo Bros, 3015 S. University Drive near TCU and 415 Throckmorton St. in Sundance Square, is a bar-and-grill open until 2 a.m. every night serving its entire menu of pizzas and Buffalo chicken sandwiches, wings and tenders.
It’s the go-to restaurant for TCU fans — it made one national list of “best college football bars” — and it’s also the gathering place for Buffalo pro sports fans.
But it’s also a busy restaurant known for solid daily specials: half-price pizzas on Mondays, the wing platter on Wednesdays, green chicken enchiladas on Thursdays and New York-style fried haddock on Fridays.
Don’t try to go on weekends in football season, particularly to the TCU location.
But any weekday and late any night, Buffalo Bros is serving good sandwiches and pizzas when everyone else has gone home; 817-386-9601 or 817-887-9533, buffalobrostexas.com.
For the midnighters
More local restaurants serving late:
▪ The eight local BoomerJack’s Grill & Bar restaurants, known as sports bars but serving steaks, pork chops and chicken-fried steak, serve until midnight nightly, boomerjacks.com.
▪ The Toro Toro steakhouse inside the Worthington Renaissance hotel serves tacos, sliders and a limited menu until midnight nightly, torotorofortworth.com.
▪ The kitchen at The Post at River East, 2925 Race St., serves sandwiches, salads and flatbreads until 11:45 p.m. nightly, Menu – The Post At River East
▪ Ol’ South Pancake House, 1509 S. University Drive, Fort Worth, is open 24 hours. The Burleson location, 225 E. Renfro St., will add 24-hour service in August; 817-336-0311 or 817-989-9090, olsouthpancakehouse.com.
▪ The fine-dining restaurant open latest on weekends is Eddie V’s Prime Seafood, 3100 W. Seventh St., serving till 11 o’clock Friday and Saturday. (But it closes at 10 p.m. weeknights.)
This story was originally published July 28, 2021 at 5:45 AM.
