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

Start 2024 with some new cooking skills.

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Pucker up with citrusy events this week as winter marks the start of citrus season. There’s also a chance to level up your culinary skills with a Parisian cooking class. Finally, kick off rodeo season in true Fort Worth fashion with bloody Marys and mimosas during the Stock Show All Western Parade.

Thursday, January 11

C.L. Butaud Flight Night at WineHaus
This month's flight night at the Near Southside wine bar features varietals from Texas' acclaimed C.L. Butaud. The lineup will include a Pinot Gris, Carbonic Counoise, and Mourvedre. Stop in for a tasting from 6-8 pm; no RSVP required.

Friday, January 12

Citrus with a Texas Twist at Central Market Cooking School
Winter means it’s citrus season, and Central Market will highlight zesty flavors during this hands-on cooking class. The menu includes avocado and tangerine salad, “chile y limon” scallops, lemon-garlic potatoes, and Texas ruby red grapefruit cake. The class is $70 and includes a glass of wine with your completed meal. Arrive by 6:30 pm.

Saturday, January 13

Stock Show All Western Parade at Grace
The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo kicks off each year with its horse-drawn All Western Parade, and Grace is ready to celebrate. While not normally open during the day, the downtown fine dining establishment (located with prime viewing on the parade route), will welcome spectators for mimosas, bloody Marys, and complimentary hot chocolate in the bar starting at 10:45 am before the parade begins at 11 am. Reservations are recommended.

Evening in Paris at The Cookery
Elevate your culinary skills in 2024 with this hands-on cooking class at this popular Fort Worth cooking studio on South Main Street. The Parisian-themed menu will feature garlic and white wine steamed mussels, steak au poivre, and dark chocolate souffle with crème anglaise. The $125 price includes French reds and whites for wine pairing. Class begins at 6 pm.

Monday, January 15

Cousins Maine Lobster at Rusty Nickel Icehouse
The popular lobster-focused food truck will make a stop at Rusty Nickel Icehouse to serve its famed lobster rolls, lobster tacos, lobster mac and cheese, and more. (Don’t miss the whoopie pies.) Order ahead using the Cousins Maine Lobster app and skip the line. The truck will be on-site from 5-9 pm.

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Where to eat

Where to eat in Fort Worth right now: 5 new restaurants for November

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For the November edition of Where to Eat, our monthly column with recommendations on which restaurans to try, we feature five places that have just hatched.

Here's where to eat in Fort Worth right now:

Don Melquia's
Home of "the best fajitas in town," this small local Mexican restaurant chain just opened a location in Joshua in the back of Shoppes on Broadway — its third, joining sibling locations in Granbury and soon-to-opwn Benbrook. The owner used to be a manager at Pulido’s, and the food is said to be fantastic and reasonably priced, with lunch specials every day. The menu has tortas, street tacos, caldos, carne guisada, menudo, and more.

Fort Redemption
Food truck-turned-restaurant serving great affordable steaks and barbecue is now open at 5724 Locke Ave., in the former Mariachi’s Dine-In space. The menu includes entrees like rack of lab with mashed potatoes, an eight-ounce beef tenderloin, ahi tuna salad, or pasta with lobster tail & grilled shrimp. They also have a full bar with cosmos and margaritas, in choice of frozen or on the rocks.

HG Sply Co.
Better known as the Palace of Paleo, HG Sply Co. is the healthy-ish restaurant concept founded in 2013 on Dallas' Greenville Avenue with a menu of various "proteins," bowls, lower carbs, vegan options, and the like. There are bison burgers, tacos (some made with thinly sliced jicama subbing in for the usual tortilla), a kale Caesar, Brussels sprouts, and a great spicy vegan queso and chips. In addition to the original in Dallas, there are also locations in west Fort Worth and Trophy Club, and now they've opened this fourth location in the buzzy Alliance area at 3351 Texas Sage Trail.

The Point Pub and Grill
Casual bar and restaurant concept from Oregon is now open in the former Wicked Wing Pub space in north Fort Worth at 5636 N. Tarrant Pkwy. The menu serves stick-to-your-ribs American, Mexican, and vegan bar fare. There are wings, fried pickles, burgers, salads, jalapeno poppers, and onion rings. Sandwiches are a tempting collection including a reuben, patty melt, French dip, and Philly cheesteak. One over-the-top sandwich called the Mac Daddy Patty Melt in which a burger is topped with caramelized onions, bacon, BBQ sauce, pepperjack cheese, and mac & cheese on grilled sourdough.

Son Of A Baker Pizzeria
Small, family-owmed restaurant-within-a-club located inside The Archibald, the lounge and rooftop bar at 902 Houston St in the former Houston Street Bar space is slinging some great pies.Their pizza style is not region specific — inspired by Neapolitan but not Neapolitan and not quite a New York-style — but instead a fusion of all the best pizza traits.Their meat pizza, called the Menage a Trois, has pepperoni, Italian sausage, ans soppressata, with organo and Parmesan cheese. And their vegetarian, called "Save a Pig," has spinach, mushroom, bell pepper, olives, and red onion.

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