16 restaurants for New Year’s Eve dinner in Fort Worth. Plus: a life hack to start 2025
Here’s a life hack to start 2025 off right:
Joe T. Garcia’s opens at 11 a.m. New Year’s Day. It’s a great day to beat the crowd for chiles rellenos, tamales or a fajitas lunch before the TV football games.
In fact, New Year’s Day is a great day to go anywhere that usually has a line. Say, Hudson House. Or Teddy Wongs. Or the Hotel Drover. Or one of the busy barbecue restaurants like Dayne’s in Aledo, Panther City or Terry Black’s.
Now, as for New Year’s Eve, try:
▪ Ruth’s Chris in downtown Fort Worth is serving its regular menu and has the best availability of the prime steakhouses. Tables are also available at Perry’s in Grapevine ($99-$149).
▪ The very intimate Blue Room at the Crescent Fort Worth hotel in the Cultural District has a five-course, $250 dinner at 6 p.m. or 9 p.m. featuring a filet or lobster tail.
▪ Clay Pigeon, chef Marcus Paslay’s recently remodeled steakhouse, has later tables for its $100 dinner featuring prime eye of rib-eye, salmon, short rib and a chocolate pot de creme dessert.
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▪ Chef Tim Love’s Italian fine dining restaurant, Caterina’s, has tables available along with his other restaurants.
▪ Le Margot, chef Graham Elliot’s French bistro, has tables available along with its cousin restaurants in Felipe Armenta’s company, including Pacific Table in Southlake.
▪ Lili’s Bistro in the Near Southside has the Johnny Case jazz trio — yes, from 28 years at the old Sardines Italiano — playing Dec. 28 and New Year’s Eve. The NYE a la carte menu will feature lamb, vension, beef tenderloin or a petite beef Wellington.
▪ Cat City Grill, a Near Southside steakhouse, also has tables available.
▪ Winslow’s, newly remodeled in the Arlington Heights neighborhood, is serving an $85 dinner featuring honey-glazed pork, redfish or eggplant involtini.
▪ The Wicked Butcher steakhouse in downtown Fort Worth has a few tables available for its $150 dinner with a wide range of choices including duck a l’orange, ginger-steaks, seafood and lamb.
▪ The very creative Cafe Americana in downtown Arlington is serving a five-course $105 dinner at 8:30 p.m. featuring a grilled filet, salmon or chicken.
▪ Cut & Bourbon, the steakhouse inside the Live! by Loews hotel, offers features such as roast venison, seared halibut or beef filet with king crab.
▪ Waters downtown is serving features including lobster thermidor or lamb chops.
▪ Quince in Westbend has a $150 party with a DJ and five-course dinner.
▪ Toro Toro’s five-course dinner features steak or halibut for $150.
Book reservations on opentable.com, resy.com or tock.com. Or call.
This story was originally published December 24, 2024 at 5:30 AM.
