Mother’s Day dining in Fort Worth: the restaurants booking up fast (and why)
Let me break it to you gently.
Mom might not want a steak for Mother’s Day.
On May 10, Mother’s Day calls for a pretty brunch cafe or tea room. Or an Italian or French restaurant. Or for some moms, a mimosa.
Here are a few obvious picks and some other ideas to make the day memorable for Mom:
Tops on the list
On Mother’s Day or any day, the moms in your life probably like lunch at Rise Soufflé in Fort Worth or Southlake.
The French-themed “salon de soufflé” and wine bar is known for its chocolate soufflé, Grand Marnier soufflé and other savory and sweet specialties.
But Rise also now serves a New York strip steak along with trout, ahi tuna and other non-puffy dishes.
Some of the best desserts aren’t soufflés at all. They’re the apple tart, molten chocolate cake and creme brulee.
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The newer Rise location on the Keller-Southlake border still has reservations available on Mother’s Day. At the Shops at Clearfork location, maybe try for a table Satirday or at off-hours.
Rise is open for lunch and dinner daily at 2001 W, Southlake Blvd., Southlake, 817-484-4208, and 5135 Monahans Ave., Fort Worth, 817-737-7473; risesouffle.com.
The busiest bookings
It’s interesting to see which restaurants book up first.
The most popular Mother’s Day lunch in suburban Tarrant County seems be at Canada-based Moxies. It’s an upscale casual restaurant and bar in Southlake Town Square known for lettuce wraps, salads, and pastas. It’s available at midafternoon; moxies.com.
In Fort Worth, families are booking up the familiar Sunday favorites: Fixe Southern House, a modern Southern dinner house in the Shops at Clearfork known for fried chicken, duck-fat biscuits and lobster or crawfish pot pie. See more at fixesouthernhouse.com.
In fact, if you don’t know where to take Mom, wander around the Shops at Clearfork. If the NM Cafe at Neiman Marcus cant fit her in, there’s always excellent general fare at B&B Butchers, Doc B’s or Press Cafe. Or take her for stepped-up Tex-Mex at Mesero, or brunch and wine at CRÚ Wine Bar & Bistro.
Also busy: both locations of Social House, the Fort Worth and Arlington restaurants known for good food in a bar-and-grill setting, The weekly brunch menu includes crabcake eggs Benedict, chicken-fried chicken with jalapeño gravy or bananas Foster French toast; socialhousearlington.com.
Pretty places
Mother’s Day is the rare Sunday when top-rated Paris 7th Restaurant Français in the Cultural District is open for brunch.
Look for a menu similar to Easter’s, when Paris 7th served salmon croquette Benedict, porcini quiche and other items; 3324 W,. Seventh St., 817-489-5300, paris7th.com.
Italian restaurants open for Mother’s Day lunch include Acquario in Keller, Campisi’s in Ridglea, Caterina’s on Mule Alley, il Calabrese in Southlake and Sicilian Butcher near Alliance Town Center.
Beren Meze & Grill House, a pretty and brand-new Turkish restaurant, is open at 1216 Sixth Ave. on the Near Southside. Other Mediterranean restaurants such as Istanbul Grill, Meraki and Truva in Colleyville are open.
Traditional buffets
The city’s leading holiday buffet remains the Omni Fort Worth ballroom brunch. It’s $88.
Cowboys Golf Club in Grapevine, a membership golf club, opens to the public for a Mother’s Day buffet. It’s $99.
Branch & Bird, a skyline restaurant in a bank tower downtown, will offer a buffet for $64.99.
The Rim in the Waterside shops will offer its holiday buffet featuring a ham and tri-tip beef carving station. It’s $44.99.
Blue Mesa Grill in Fort Worth is serving its Southwestern brunch buffet with mimosas both Saturday and Sunday ($50).
More for Mom
The Silver Fox restaurants will open for a special Sunday and serve both the regular menu and a brunch special: beef tenderloin eggs Benedict.
Irving-based Whiskey Cafe near Alliance Town Center is offering its Mother’s Day special both Saturday and Sunday: a 6-ounce filet mignon with grilled chile-butter shrimp.
Dozens of moms will celebrate in an antique mall tea room such as the Secret Garden, 2601 Montgomery St., or local pie favorite the Rose Garden Tea Room. 7200 Camp Bowie Blvd.
The Dallas-based Mimi’s Cafe chain is serving its brunch specials both days along with a 3-course special dinner for $36.
Corporate cousin La Madeleine will feed Mom free on Mother’s Day, if you have a rewards account and spend $30 in a single visit before May 10.
Yes, all the prime steakhouses are open too.
But ask Mom first.
