Fort Worth, North Texas restaurants offer bargain dinners for Restaurant Week
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- Over 30 Fort Worth-area restaurants offer prix fixe meals for $49 to $99 in August
- Restaurants donate $8–$20 per meal to Fort Worth charity Lena Pope
- Popular spots like Wicked Butcher and Quince see new diners and local support
When prices get high, it’s time for a DFW Restaurant Week deal.
More than 30 Fort Worth- and Southlake-area restaurants will offer full three-course dinners for $49, $59 or $99 beginning Aug. 4.
Some of the dinners usually sell for far more. But this month, dinner is nearly half-price.
Not only that, but $8-$20 is donated to a Fort Worth children’s charity.
For example, I can’t imagine having a Wicked Butcher filet or the ginger-miso sea bass with a wedge salad and chocolate-hazelnut tart for $59, including the restaurant’s signature popover.
That’s the price through Aug. 31.
“We want to make the menu as indicative as possible,” said Demetrius Anagnostis, the operations director for Wicked Butcher, 412 Main St., and also for Wild Salsa and Chop House Burger.
In other words, what you get during Restaurant Week is really what you’ll get all year.
(Always check any restaurant’s menu before booking a table. Some of the restaurant choices are limited.)
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“The goal is to raise as much money as possible,” Anagnostis said on a recent episode of the Star-Telegram “Eats Beat Live” streaming show. “We’d like to get as many people as possible.”
Local restaurants raised more than $200,000 for Lena Pope last year. Dallas-area restaurants raised more than $500,000 for that city’s food bank.
At Quince, 1701 River Run in the Westbend shops, co-owner Deb Sneed said she and her family have always gone out for Restaurant Week.
“It’s always fun to get to do all these special dinners, and try out new restaurants,” she said.
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At Quince’s first Restaurant Week last year, she noticed new faces trying the restaurant.
“We made so many friends in the community, people who didn’t know we were tucked back here on the river,” she said as the passing Forest Park Train tooted its horn.
Quince’s $59 dinner includes a choice of appetizer, plus either roasted chicken or salmon and baklava cheesecake or flourless chocolate cake. There’s also an aji-chile pepper risotto.
A special $99 dinner features nigiri, a salad, a New York strip and dessert, with $20 going to Lena Pope.
The first restaurants to book are those ending the special this week or next, such as the classic Piccolo Mondo Italian in Arlington (Aug. 10), Bonnell’s or Ellerbe in Fort Worth (Aug. 17) or Cut and Bourbon in Arlington (Aug. 17).
A few picks from Fort Worth menus
More menu highlights:
—A $49 dinner with appetizer, choice of pastas or entrees and cannoli or gelato at Sicilian Butcher in Alliance through Aug. 31;
—A $49 dinner with dumplings, entrees including orange chicken or cod (with a filet instead, it’s $59) and matcha Basque cheesecake at the beautiful Soy Cowboy in Arlington through Aug. 31.
—A $59 dinner with soup or salad, salmon or coq au vin and bread pudding at Ellerbe Fine Foods in Fort Worth through Aug. 16.
—A $59 dinner with tomato-jalapeño soup, “BBQ” salmon or a pepper-crusted pork chop plus peach cobbler at Bonnell’s through Aug. 17.
—A $49 dinner with soup or salad, prime rib or a filet and an apple galette with Henry’s Ice Cream at Mac’s on Main in Grapevine through Aug. 17.
—A $99 deluxe dinner with a filet, a nopalitos taco and squash quesadilla appetizer and tres leches dessert at Don Artemio Mexican Heritage through Aug 31, or the $24 lunch with a rajas or chicken quesadilla and ribeye beef stew.
—A $59 dinner with salad, a filet and butter cake or strawberry-hibiscus cheesecake at Del Frisco’s Double Eagle in Fort Worth through Aug. 31.
For a full list of restaurants offering specials in the Tarrant and Denton County area, see the Lena Pope website at lenapope.org.
For all restaurants in Dallas and Fort Worth, see dfwrestaurantweek.com..
This story was originally published July 29, 2025 at 5:30 AM.
