This Week in Gluttony

These are the 5 best food and drink events in Fort Worth this week

Monkey King will join the Lunar New Year festivities at Four Sisters.

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The Chinese New Year begins this week, and one local restaurant is celebrating with a festival. But first, cozy up with pub-style comfort food at a local beer dinner, or sip on Spanish wines paired with tapas at one of the Near Southside’s favorite wine bars. There’s also opportunity to tour some of Fort Worth’s tastiest barbecue joints via bus. Finally, get in on the cookbook club craze come Monday at a supper club where guests provide the meal.

Tuesday, January 21

Pub Feast Beer Dinner at Funky Picnic Brewery & Café
Tuck into some comforting pub food at this five-course beer-pairing dinner featuring British-inspired dishes. Menu highlights include sausage-wrapped Scotch eggs, fish and chips, prime rib with potatoes and turnips, and sticky toffee pudding. Each course is paired with a different Funky Picnic beer. Tickets are $75 and do include tax and gratuity. Dinner begins at 7 pm.

Thursday, January 23

A Tasting of Spanish Wines with Tapas at Grand Cru
The West Magnolia Avenue wine bar hosts its first tasting of the year, featuring Spanish-style tapas. Taste deviled eggs, garlic shrimp, Spanish pizza, chorizo-filled mushrooms, and cheeses paired with Brut, Rosé, Tempranillo, and more. Tickets are $28, plus gratuity. The guided tasting starts at 7 pm.

Saturday, January 25

BBQ & Brews Tours
Hop on the bus for a guided tour of Fort Worth’s barbecue and breweries. The tour includes hearty samples of barbecue and three craft beers. First stop: Panther City BBQ, where the tour will begin and end. Locations in between are secret. Tickets are $55 per person, and the tour will run from 1 to 4 pm.

Sunday, January 26

Four Sisters Lunar New Year Food Fest
It’s the year of the rat this Chinese New Year, and the folks at Four Sisters are celebrating with an indoor-outdoor food festival. There’ll be at least seven different food stations serving a la carte specialties for guests to purchase. Participants include Bobaddiction and Monkey King Noodle Company from Deep Ellum, and SXSE Food Co. from Austin, among others. There’ll be drinks and DJ music, too. The party starts at 4 pm and will run until 8 pm, or until the food sells out.

Monday, January 27

The Table Cookbook Club
Cookbook clubs are all the range right now, and this one hosted by The Table Market & Culinary Studio in the Near Southside is open to the public. Pick up a copy of Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over by Alison Roman and prepare a dish from it to bring. (Dish selections should be indicated upon registration.) Then gather for a roundtable meal and discussion with other home cooks. Appetizers and wine and will be provided, but feel free to BYOB. Registration is $20 and dinner begins at 6 pm.

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Doughnut News

Luscious doughnut shop Duck Donuts makes Fort Worth debut

Photo courtesy of Visit Addison

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A decadent new doughnut shop is coming to Fort Worth: Duck Donuts, a North Carolina-based chain known for serving doughnuts made to order, will open a shop at 6387 Camp Bowie Blvd. #A within the Ridglea Plaza Shopping Center in Fort Worth.

According to a release, the shop will open on Saturday December 21 at 7 am.

Duck Donuts opened its first locations in 2007 in the beach resort towns of Duck and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with the intention to create an oasis for vacationers. They're now headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and began franchising in 2013, with more than 150 locally owned and operated shops across 26 states and international locations. There was previously a DFW location in Addison on Belt Line Road that opened in 2020 but it did not survive the pandemic.

The Fort Worth shop is owned and operated by husband-and-wife Justin and Morgan Thomas.

“We are delighted to be opening in Fort Worth,” Justin says in a statement. “The community has been patiently waiting for us to open our doors, and now we cannot wait to sprinkle happiness to all with our warm, delicious and made-to-order doubhnuts.”

The 1,035-square-foot shop reflects the franchise’s reimagined design which gives a modern twist on their iconic beach theme and family-friendly atmosphere. Upon entering the store, customers are greeted by the aroma of warm, light vanilla cake doughnuts.

Customers can create their own combination by choosing from coatings, toppings, and drizzles, including traditional favorites such as chocolate icing with sprinkles and more adventurous creations such as maple icing with bacon.

Key to their appeal is the viewing area where children and adults alike can watch their doughnuts being made.

Many of their flavors have a beachy theme such as the Beach, a cake doughnut with vanilla icing dusted with cinnamon sugar; the Sunrise with lemon icing and raspberry drizzle; and the Beach Ball with vanilla icing, rainbow sprinkles, and chocolate drizzle.

They rotate in seasonal offerings such as the current lineup of mint-flavored flavors including chocolate icing with mint buttercream. The doughnuts themselves are limited to vanilla and chocolate cake; the flavors come primarily from icing.

In addition to doughnuts, the Fort Worth location will serve coffee, doughnut breakfast sandwiches, doughnut sundaes — in which a doughnut is topped with ice cream and syrup — plus frozen beverages and milkshakes.

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