What’s new to eat at the Fort Worth Stock Show this year? Pulido’s, baklava and more
The Fort Worth Stock Show includes a baklava roundup this year, and it’s also a preview of a new Turkish restaurant.
Beren Mediterranean Empire Kitchen will open within days in a food court at 1229 Eighth Ave. on the Near Southside.
But it’s also one of several new vendors open Jan. 17-Feb. 8 as the Stock Show continues to widen its food menu. Other additions include a Pulido’s Rodeo Kitchen Tex-Mex restaurant.
“We are so happy to come to the Stock Show, and we think people will like our baklavas and pies,” said restaurateur “Charlie” Caglar Unlu, referring to savory pastries such as the familiar Mediterranean turkish-feta pie or a potato pie with Turkish spices.
The booth, in the lobby of a new arena adjacent to the sheep barn, will open daily by lunch until the rodeo starts, along with other Stock Show restaurants, concessions and vendors.
It’s only a taste of what will be served at Beren Mediterranean.
The Eighth Avenue food stand, under Wabi House across the street from Baylor All Saints hospital, will serve breakfast omelets and egg dishes along with lunch and dinner kebabs and elaborate Turkish desserts.
Caglar Unlu has worked in other local Turkish restaurants along with hotels and steakhouses, he said.
He hopes to expand Beren Mediterranean and open a French-style bakery-cafe nearby, he said.
Pulido’s, mac-and-cheese and chili
More new dining choices at the Stock Show:
▪ Pulido’s Rodeo Kitchen, a food stand from the owners of the Pulido’s Mexican Kitchen restaurants, will serve enchilada dinners, tacos, quesadillas and margaritas. It’s open Jan. 17-Feb. 8 in the Moncrief Building at the corner of Burnett Tandy Drive and Rip Johnson Drive.
New vendors familiar from other festivals include:
▪ Cristi & Ali (in the new show arena lobby with Beren);
▪ Smackin’ Mac mac-and-cheese on Burnett Tandy Drive;
▪ And Big Red Trailer, serving brisket chili in the Tower lobby next to the fried-pies stand.
The regular vendors are open from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. daily, including the traditional Coburn’s barbecue and Mama’s Pizza in the Amon G. Carter Jr. Exhibits Hall food court.
The Stockman’s Cafe in the Cattle Barn Arena 2 is open 24 hours.
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Reata doubles up with rodeo restaurants
Reata Restaurant is back with the Stock Show’s two destination restaurants.
▪ Reata at the Rodeo, a smaller but no less impressive version of the Southwestern steakhouse in downtown Fort Worth, will open at 11 a.m. Jan. 17 and will serve all day most days.
The menu will include steaks, chicken, salmon, lunch sandwiches and Reata’s signature tenderloin tamales; check the specific schedule and reserve at (817) 336-5766., reata.net.
▪ Reata at the Backstage Club, a nostalgic restaurant and bar atop the old rodeo coliseum, is open for dinner five days a week and lunch weekends.
The menu includes a rib-eye, chicken-fried steak, burgers and sandwiches; check the schedule and reserve at (817) 348-0642 or opentable.com.
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This story was originally published January 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM.
