DFW Restaurant Week ends Sunday; here are the last-minute dinners in Fort Worth
The $39 and $49 DFW Restaurant Week dinner specials end Sept. 4, and the big winners probably are a new fine-Mexican-cuisine anejo bar and also a fine seafood house.
▪ Fitzgerald, 6115 Camp Bowie Blvd., is the seafood restaurant. It has made diners happy with blackened redfish and its special fried-oyster deviled egg.
It’s the biggest hit yet for chef Ben Merritt, also the boss at Fixture in the medical district.
Restaurant Week brought in new customers and helped raise money (about 20% of each special) for the Lena Pope children’s charity, he wrote in a message.
“August is always a slow time for any restaurant,” Merritt wrote, “so when you have a way to increase the earnings for your staff, you embrace it.”
Fitzgerald’s showcase is a $99 four-course dinner ($149 with wines) featuring a choice of redfish, filet mignon or Fitzgerald’s dark and rich “ultimate gumbo” served tableside.
A regular three-course dinner special is $49 ($79 with wines), or there’s a $24 lunch special.
“We would definitely do it again,” Merritt said.
Fitzgerald is open nightly for dinner and weekdays for lunch; 817-349-9245, eatatfitz.com.
▪ Don Artemio Mexican Heritage, 3268 W. Seventh St., a Saltillo-based fine dining restaurant, was already busy by mid-August when Texas Monthly magazine headlined, “The King of Cabrito Sets Up Shop in Cowtown.”
Weekend crowds followed, but Don Artemio still has room other nights and at lunch and brunch, with $49 and $99 dinner specials, a $24 lunch and a $29 brunch through Sept. 4.
The Texas Monthly review raves about the fried nopalitos, the sea bass in dark mole sauce (a top-five-ever, the reviewer wrote), the chapulines (yes, fried grasshoppers) and the French toast brunch in goat-milk-pecan Glorias sauce.
Chef Juan Ramón Cárdenas’ deluxe $99 four-course dinner for Restaurant Week includes the nopalitos and either the sea bass or a filet mignon on chipotle sauce, plus a cocktail, wine and tres leches.
The $49 dinner choices include salmon in green pipián, and the $24 lunches (a good introduction) include tacos or chicken sopes with salad.
The $29 weekend brunch is a highlight, particularly the chicken quesadillas or chilaquiles.
Next up: Don Artemio has been previewing a classic chiles en nogada dish, presumably for the holiday season.
Other Restaurant Week options through Sept. 4:
▪ B&B Butchers and Restaurant, 5212 Marathon Ave., is offering a $24 lunch — choices include B&B’s filet mignon salad — and a $49 dinner with a choice of six entrees.
▪ The Classic Cafe at Roanoke, 504 N. Oak Ave., serves a $49 dinner with a choice of pan-seared duck, glazed salmon or pork jägerschnitzel.
▪ Home Plate, 701 Brown Blvd., and Ventana, 7005 Golf Club Drive, the restaurants at Arlington golf courses, are both serving $24 lunches and $39 dinners, a nice price for the club setting and atmosphere.
▪ Kirby’s, 3305 Texas 114 East, Southlake, and Perry’s, 2400 Texas 114 West, Colleyville, are competing prime steakhouses across Texas 114, but Kirby’s is serving the $49 special while Perry’s is only offering the $99 premium five-course dinner.
Kirby’s choices include filet mignon, redfish and Tuscan chicken.
The Perry’s special includes a 20-ounce New York strip, redfish Oscar or filet sliced and served “three ways’ (Oscar, coffee-crusted and au poivre).
▪ Canada-based Moxie’s, 1472 Main St. in Southlake Town Square, serves Restaurant Week brunch, lunch and dinner specials. Check out the mahi-mahi, the chipotle-mango chicken or the beef vindaloo.
▪ Rise n°3 Souffle, 5135 Monahans Ave., has a Reese’s dessert souffle or a raspberry souffle this year to go with its regular choices of souffles or salads. It’s also only $39 for three courses.
▪ Toro Toro, 200 Main St., and Wicked Butcher, 512 Main St., are downtown hotel restaurants with $49 dinner specials.
Wicked Butcher’s choice of five entrees looks more interesting, including filet mignon or ginger-miso sea bass, with black cherry cheesecake.
(I know this all sounds expensive these days. But if you can afford to go out, at least part of the money goes to charity.)
For all the menus and choices, see lenapope.org/dfwrestaurantweek.
This story was originally published August 29, 2022 at 5:45 AM.
