This Week in Gluttony

These are the 6 best food and drink events in Fort Worth this week

Heim is grilling up a fifth birthday party.

Wine, bacon, and beef dominate this week’s event list, which starts with a Texas Independence Day dinner worth a drive to Colleyville. Mid-week wine tastings lead to weekend celebrations — one with a live concert and the other, a much more tame afternoon tea.

Monday, March 2

Texas + Bacon + Beer Dinner at Chef Point Bar & Restaurant
To celebrate Texas Independence Day, both the Colleyville and original Watauga location of Chef Point will serve bacon-centric four-course menus paired with Texas beers. (Note that the event will take place on Wednesday, March 4 at the Watauga locale.) Go for pork belly two ways, bacon-wrapped sea scallops, and bacon bourbon bread pudding. The dinner is $43 per person, plus tax and gratuity, and will begin at 7 pm.

Wednesday, March 4

Unshackled Wine Down Wednesday at Fixe Southern House
The latest label from The Prisoner Wine Company will be revealed during this happy hour tasting at the Shops at Clearfork restaurant. Visit from 4 to 7 pm and head to the bar to try Unshackled red blend, Cabernet, and rosé. They'll also pass appetizers for pairing. The tasting is $20 per person, and reservations are encouraged.

Thursday, March 5

Meat Church BBQ Cooking Class + Dinner Featuring Grady Spears
Learn not only how to cook ribeye steaks the “cowboy way,” but how to prep appropriate lip-smacking sides, including Hill Country potato salad, brisket-stuffed chile relleno, and “blue ribbon” corn bread. Matt Pittman of Meat Church BBQ cooking instruction and Grady Spears of the Stockyards’ Horseshoe Hill Café will team-teach the three-hour class. Dinner and libations are included in the $119 price. The event will begin at 6 pm in The Brand Room at 212 West Exchange Ave.

Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival Reserve Wine Tasting
Prep your palate for the seventh annual Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival (coming up April 2-5) with a wine tasting featuring more than 25 pours of some of the finest wine from around the world. Sips will take place at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where local wine experts will guide guests through reds, whites, and bubbly. Selections include Duckhorn, Mark Herold, and Nickel & Nickel. Tickets are $75, and the event will run from 6 to 8 pm.

Saturday, March 7

Fifth Anniversary Party at Heim Barbecue
Celebrate five years of Heim Barbecue (and those famous bacon burnt ends) with an anniversary party at the restaurant’s River District location. The party will feature live music by Jon Stork and headliner Grady Spencer & the Work. Tickets are required for access to the tunes, and they range from $25 to $50 (the latter guarantees seats near the stage). There’ll be multiple bars, in addition to the main bar that offers 24 taps, including Tito’s and TX Whiskey. The music starts at 5 pm.

Sunday, March 8

Afternoon Tea at The Londoner
The Colleyville pub will host a traditional British-style tea party complete with scones, finger sandwiches, and chocolate mousse. The full menu is $25 and comes with a pot of tea and glass of sparkling wine, or patrons may purchase menu items a la carte. Reservations are limited and may be made between 12 and 3 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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