Food Events This Week

Grilling class tops 5 food and drink events in Fort Worth this week

Learn how to master Michaels "Backyard Barbecue Chicken" this week at Central Market.

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Just in time for end-of-summer grilling and the upcoming tailgate season, three Fort Worth chefs will showcase recipes great for a cookout. But first, other culinary happenings this week includes classes on pho and pasta, a burger week kick-off party, and a dinner for a good cause featuring a favorite local chef.

Tuesday, August 12

Pho Making Class at Hao’s Grocery & Café
Chef Hao Tran will guide participants through preparing the iconic Vietnamese noodle soup. Leave with a container of homemade pho and the skills to impress guests at your next dinner gathering. Class is $55 and begins at 6 pm.

Thursday, August 14

Pasta Making Class at il Modo
Spots fill fast for this hands-on pasta-making class at The Kimpton Harper’s Italian restaurant downtown, so snag yours quick. The class is $80 (add $19 for an optional wine pairing) and begins at 6 pm in il Modo’s private pasta-making room.

Friday, August 15

Celebrity Chef Dinner at Taste Project with Kevin Martinez
Tokyo Cafe chef will visit the South Fort Worth community restaurant for a fundraising dinner benefiting Taste Project’s mission of providing pay-what-you-can meals for all. Tickets start at $300 for a table of four (single seats and tables of two are already sold out) and include a multi-course dinner. Guests may BYOB. Dinner will run from 6–8 pm.

Saturday, August 16

Fort Worth Burger Week Kick-Off Party at Heim Barbecue on the River
Fort Worth Burger Week benefitting Tarrant Area Food Bank officially starts August 18, but Heim Barbecue is getting the party started early. Get a sneak peek of Heim’s $7 Burger Week special at their River District location at 5333 White Settlement Rd. Pair it with a $3 Fort Lyte beer. The first 50 people will snag a Fort Worth Burger Week drawstring backpack filled with swag and even gift cards. The special will run from 11 am–2 pm.

Sunday, August 17

A Cowtown Comfort Cookout at Central Market Cooking School
Three Fort Worth chefs – Quincy Wallace of Fred's Texas Cafe, Levi Gardner of JD's Hamburgers, and Michael Thomson of Michaels Cuisine – will demonstrate how to prepare their recipes featured in the recently released Fort Worth cookbook, Cowtown Comfort: Fort Worth Recipes, Places, and Food Traditions. The cookout-themed menu includes a slider of the original Fredburger, backyard barbecue brined chicken, okra fries, and Texas sheet cake. The dine-and-demo class (no cooking required) includes wine. Class is $90 and will run from 5–7 pm.

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Chick-fil-A News

New Chick fil-A will open on far east side of Fort Worth

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The massively popular Chick-fil-A chain is opening a new restaurant in Fort Worth: According to a release, it'll be located at 1700 Eastchase Pkwy. at the intersection of I-30, practically clear to Arlington, where it will open on December 10.

The new location is from franchisee Carmenza Moreno, who owns one other Chick-fil-A location at North Collins Street. She first began working at Chick-fil-A in 1993 at the first freestanding Chick-fil-A west of the Mississippi, in Texas.

Chick-fil-A, Inc. is the third largest quick-service restaurant company in the U.S. The family-owned and privately held company was founded in 1967 by S. Truett Cathy, who opened a small restaurant in Atlanta in 1946, before going on to open the first Chick-fil-A restaurant in Atlanta's Greenbriar Shopping Center in 1967.

Texas has more than 460 locations, with approximately 140 in the DFW area.

They're known for their original fried Chicken Sandwich and iced tea. Other menu items include a grilled sandwich, nuggets, strips, a spicy chicken sandwich, nuggets, strips, chicken wraps, waffle fries, mac & cheese, kale, and chicken soup.

At breakfast, there's a Chicken Biscuit sandwich, hash brown scramble burrito, plus various bacon & egg or sausage & egg combos on biscuits or English muffins.

They're equally well known for their overflowing drive-thru lanes and their customers' intense loyalty. They also have a unique franchise model with local Owner-Operators in more than 3,000 restaurants across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

From a typography standpoint, they're a challenge, as the logo calls for a capital C, then a small f, then a capital A. Chick-fil-A.

The new location will open at 6 am on December 10 with a trademark dress-up: Guests who dress in cow attire can get one free entrée or kid’s meal inside the restaurant or in the drive-thru, limited to one per person in cow attire, per day, while supplies last.

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