We have a winner in our Readers’ Choice poll for favorite bar in the Fort Worth area

After more than 160,000 votes in the final round, we have a winner in our Readers’ Choice poll for favorite bar in the Fort Worth area.

Cooter Brown’s in Burleson wins the poll with 71,324 votes. It was a close race with Dr. Jeckyll’s Beer Lab in Pantego coming in second with 68,954 votes. The other top five finalists were 4 Kahunas Tiki Lounge in Arlington, Down ‘N Out in Fort Worth’s Near Southside, and Tulane’s in Fort Worth’s Foundry District.

Congratulations to our winner and four finalists.

Below are the other bars that were nominated by our readers as their favorites. We did six rounds of voting to narrow the list down to the final vote, which ended Saturday. In all, we counted more than 420,000 votes in our unscientific poll, which aims to highlight our readers’ favorite local businesses.

Every one of these Tarrant County bars is worth checking out for fabulous cocktails, a friendly environment or simply a good time. Thank you to all our readers who voted!

• 61 Osteria, downtown
• Abbey Pub, West 7th district
• Acre Distilling, downtown
• Amber Room at Wishbone & Flynt, Near Southside
• Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine, Bryant Irvin Road
• Chat Room, Near Southside
• Chimy’s Fort Worth, West 7th district
• Club W at Rio Mambo, Colleyville
• Dublin Square, Far North Fort Worth

• Flips Patio Grill, Far North Fort Worth

• From Across the Pond, Far North Fort Worth

• Game Theory, Near Southside

• Grace, downtown

• Il Modo, downtown

• J. Gilligan’s Bar & Grill, Arlington

• Johnny B’s Cocktail Lounge, Benbrook Highway

• Liberty Lounge, Near Southside

• Lockwood Distilling Co., Near Southside

• Malone’s Pub, downtown

• McFly’s Pub, River Oaks

• Nickel City, Near Southside

• Oscar’s Pub, Camp Bowie

• Proper, Near Southside

• Rabbit Hole Pub, White Settlement Road

• Refinery 714 at Kimpton Harper Hotel, downtown

• Rusty Nickel Icehouse, Paschal/Berry area

• Sammy’s on the Lake, Eagle Mountain Lake

• Silver Leaf Cigar Lounge, downtown

• Studio 80, downtown

• T&P Tavern, downtown

• The Basement Lounge, Camp Bowie

• The Lazy Moose, Near Southside

• The Local Watering Hole, Keller

• The Rô on Oak, Roanoke

• The Usual, Near Southside

• Thompson’s Bookstore, downtown

• Truck Yard, Far North Fort Worth

• Twilite Lounge, Near Southside

• Winchester Tavern, downtown
• Woody’s Tavern, Bryant Irvin Road

This story was originally published August 22, 2023 at 4:51 PM.

Matt Leclercq

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Matt Leclercq is senior managing editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He previously was an editor at USA Today in Washington, national news editor at Gatehouse Media in Austin, and executive editor of The Fayetteville (NC) Observer. He’s a New Orleans native.