New Year's Eve Dining

The best restaurants in Fort Worth to dine out on New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, toast, cheers, drinks, December 2012

Here are some of the restaurants in the Fort Worth area where you can ring in the New Year.

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With the year 2015 ticking down, you don't want to miss a minute. Let's give it the send-off it deserves: with a nice dinner, a toast or two, and some convivial farewells. These are some of the restaurants around Fort Worth that are ready to ring in the new year.

Some of these events may be on their way to selling out, so be sure to call and check for availability.

Here's where to dine out on New Year's Eve in Fort Worth:

Bird Cafe
Three-course prix fixe menu with lobster bisque, beef carpaccio, and leek souffle. $60. 817-332-2473.

Brick House Tavern
$5 and $7 late night appetizers from 9 pm until close. Brunch on New Year’s Day. 817-442-9796.

Classic Cafe
Special menu with choices such as tenderloin, quail, seafood, and vegetable galette. 5-11 pm. $75 with a credit card guarantee. 817-430-8185.

Cool River Cafe
Special menu, wine and champagne features, balloon drops, and party favors at midnight. 972-871-8881.

Copeland's of New Orleans
Fried turkey, mashed sweet potatoes with pecan Amaretto cream sauce, green bean casserole, corn maque choux, cranberry sauce, and a biscuit are on this Christmas menu. 7 am-10 pm. $19. Call 817-305-2199.

Del Frisco's Grille
Regular menu plus special of prime rib with mashed potatoes, $42 for a 16-ounce or $49 for a 20-ounce. Champagne toast at midnight. Brunch January 1-3, 11 am-3 pm.

Ellerbe Fine Foods
Louisiana-style 4-course prix fixe menu. 5-11 p.m. $85, plus $35 for wine pairings 817-926-3663.

Kirby's Steakhouse Southlake
Four course menu with choice of sea bass, Lamb, and rib eye. $89. 817-410-2221.

Lonesome Dove
Four-course menu with elk, rabbit confit crepinette, striped bass, and more. Plus champagne toast. $95. 817-740-8810.

Martin House
Party with new beers including pretzel stout with candy cane, and vanilla peach gateway blonde. Plus old keepers like salsa verde, Christmas in July, and a sugar and spice tasting. 5-9 pm. $15. 817-222-0177.

Max's Wine Dive
"Thursday Night Live" costume party. Dress up as your favorite SNL character. Specials on Dom Perignon. 6-11 pm. 817-870-1100.

Melting Pot Arlington
Special five-course menu only, with smoked salmon bruschetta, lobster-stuffed mushrooms, and more. $120 per couple. 817-472-9988.

Next Wood-Fired Bistro
Four-course menu. Open 5-9 pm. $80. 682-325-4046.

Queenies Steakhouse
Four-course dinner with a champagne toast and a live jazz band $85 940-442-6834.

RA Sushi
Pre-fixe menu includes beverage, three courses, and dessert. $35. 601-9590.

Simply Fondue
Party favors, champagne toast. 4 pm, $59. 5-10 pm, $79.

The Social House
Four-course dinner event from 5-10 p.m. $65. 817-820-1510.

Vivo 53
Regular menu and regular hours on New Year's Eve from 11 am-10 pm. New Years Day brunch with $1 mimosas and bellinis, 10 am-5 pm. 682-207-8700.

Waters
Limited menu. Caviar available if ordered in advance. $85. 817-984-1110.

Woodshed Smokehouse
Barbecue buffet, champagne, and open bar. $75. 817-877-4545.

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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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