This Week in Gluttony

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

B&B Butchers hosts a Mexico City-inspired brunch.

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It’s a week of scary-tasty events, as local restaurants and venues host Halloween-themed dinner parties — including one with a high-profile guest chef from Dallas. Dia de los Muertos — the Mexican holiday that celebrates departed souls — is also a big player this week as the theme for a special brunch, dinner, and taco and margarita tour. Costumes are encouraged, so dress accordingly for more treats than tricks.

Tuesday, October 29

Death’s Door Diner at Division Brewing
The Arlington brewery will host guest chef John Mercer for a creepy three-course "diner" experience that gives guests options. Entrée choices include pumpkin-stuffed quail, blackberry braised short rib, or sous vide pork belly. (A vegetarian options is also available.) Stay for chocolate-cherry brownie “coffins” for dessert. The dinner is $60 per person (tickets here) and does not include alcohol, but beer and wine will be available. Arrive by 7 pm.

Wednesday, October 30

Dia de los Muertos at Ellerbe Fine Foods
Flavors from deep in the heart of Mexico will take center stage at this three-course dinner celebrating lives lost. Chef Molly McCook will prepare Gulf shrimp-stuffed sopes (think thick corn tortillas), chicken rellenos with black mole, and Mexican sweet bread with hot chocolate and whipped cream. The dinner is $45 per person, and an optional wine pairing flight will be available. Reservations will run 5:30-9 pm.

Halloween Dinner with Chef Tim Byresat Fort Worth Botanic Garden
The Dallas chef, who won a James Beard award for his cookbook Smoke: New Firewood Cooking, will visit the Fort to share a creepy and kitschy Halloween-themed menu. The ghoulish three-course dinner includes mysterious dishes like “night crawler sliders,” “skeleton ribs,” and “amaretto severed finger cookies.” Also promised is music and a bar for Halloween cocktails and pumpkin beer. Dinner is $50 per person and begins at 7 pm. Costumes encouraged.

Saturday, November 2

Day of the Dead Brunch at B&B Butchers & Restaurant
The high-end steakhouse will host a Mexico City-inspired brunch complete with live music, face painting (of the sugar skull variety), and specialty tequila cocktails. Specials for the midday affair will include chilaquiles with bacon or sliced filet, huevos divorciados, and molletes — bolillo bread with beans, cheese and pico de gallo. The brunch will run 10 am-2 pm, and reservations are encouraged.

Texas Taco Festival at Texas Live!
The two-day, family-friendly festival will host around two dozen taco vendors who’ll serve more than 75 varieties. Participants include off-the-radar taco trucks and caterers from around North Texas and beyond, including So-Cal Tacos. There’ll be a tequila-sampling expo, make-your-own-margarita bar, and live music. Tickets range from $9.95 for general admission (tacos not included) to $54.95 for VIP access, which comes with five tacos, five drink vouchers, a gift bag, and access to a VIP area with private seating, bars, and of course, tacos. Early entry begins at 12 pm both days, and the event will run until 8 pm on Saturday and 6 pm on Sunday. Admission is free for kids 10 and under.

Dia de los Tacos Taco & Margarita Tour
Learn about the Mexican holiday during this evening tour of hidden taco spots in Fort Worth. Start at the Black House event venue, where artists and vendors will showcase their wares to kick off the evening. The $65 ticket includes tacos, margaritas, and transportation. Arrive by 7 pm.

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Doughnut News

Luscious doughnut shop Duck Donuts makes Fort Worth debut

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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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