When does Terry Black’s BBQ open? And which Fort Worth restaurants are open Christmas?
Christmas week can be barbecue week in Fort Worth.
But not for lunch Christmas Day.
The smoke signals at Terry Black’s BBQ show the new $6 million barbecue palace will be open on schedule Dec. 19 at 2926 W. Seventh St., just in time for holiday brisket.
But no barbecue restaurant is open for Christmas Day lunch, and only the Woodshed Smokehouse is open for dinner. So buy the brisket ahead, or dine at a family restaurant lunch or a hotel buffet.
More soon on Terry Black’s BBQ, a Michelin Guide “recommended” restaurant for its flagship Austin location. It opened after a family split with the 92-year-old legacy Black’s in Lockhart.
Downtown: beef and buffets
Meanwhile, your Christmas lunch options are thin but varied:
▪ The Omni Fort Worth’s ballroom buffet, 1300 Houston St., remains the city’s definitive holiday hotel event, featuring turkey, pork roast and top sirloin.
It’s $80, with late lunch tables available on opentable.com.
▪ Mercury Chophouse in downtown Fort Worth, a locally owned prime steakhouse, is the civic tradition.
It’s open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Christmas Day to serve and thank on-duty Fort Worth police.
Mercury served 450 officers on Thanksgiving and a total of 600 diners. It’s at 525 Taylor St. mercuryfw.com.
Other steakhouses open downtown on Christmas Day:
▪ Del Frisco’s Double Eagle, 812 Main St., open at 2 p.m.;
▪ Del Frisco’s Grille, 154 E. Third St., open for lunch and dinner;
▪ Texas de Brazil, a churrascaria and buffet at 101 N. Houston St., open for lunch and dinner;
▪ Toro Toro, 200 Main St., offers a $95 buffet for brunch including prime rib and prime rib-eyes.
▪ and Yelp-honored Wicked Butcher, a Texas prime steakhouse, open for breakfast, lunch and dinner at 512 Main St.
Family restaurants
▪ Heaven’s Gate country buffet, 3820 N. Main St., will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For $27.99, the Christmas Day all-you-can-eat buffet includes roast beef, turkey, chicken-fried steak and other meats, plus Tex-Mex items and desserts. It gets crowded, so go early and expect to wait in line.
▪ Skillet N’ Grill, 1801 W. Division St., Arlington, is a popular breakfast and lunch cafe open every day, including Christmas. It will serve regular lunches and a Christmas Day dinner.
▪ The Iron Skillet Restaurant, 2001 Santa Fe Drive in Weatherford, serves inexpensive truck stop breakfast, lunch and dinner daily including a Christmas Day lunch.
▪ Both Ol’ South Pancake House locations, 1509 S. University Drive and also 225 E. Renfro St., Burleson, will open at 8 a.m. Christmas Day and serve their regular menu featuring German pancakes and mini “Dutch baby” pancakes.
▪ All seven Tarrant County locations of Houston-based Saltgrass Steak House will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Reserve online at saltgrass.com or opentable.com.
More Christmas choices
▪ Bricks and Horses, 3700 Camp Bowie Blvd. in the Bowie House hotel, is serving a $115 dinner Christmas Eve night and Christmas evening featuring lobster, a beef filet, pork roast and other choices.
▪ Cut & Bourbon, 1600 E. Randol Mill Road, Arlington, and nearby Farena, 888 Nolan Ryan Expressway, in two adjacent Loews hotels, will both serve breakfast or brunch and dinner. The Farena breakfast buffet is $35.
▪ Emilia’s, 3300 Camp Bowie Blvd. in the Crescent hotel, will serve Christmas lunch and dinner but has not announced a menu or price.
▪ 97 West, the restaurant in the Hotel Drover, 200 Mule Alley, has a few early and late tables available for its $65 three-course brunch.
▪ Several Tim Love restaurants are open Christmas. Gemelle, 4400 White Settlement Road, and Tannahill’s Tavern, 122 E. Exchange Ave., will be open for lunch and dinner.
The Love Shack, 110 E. Exchange Ave., and Woodshed Smokehouse, 3201 Riverfront Drive, will open at dinner.
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This story was originally published December 9, 2024 at 5:30 AM.
