This week in gluttony

These are the 8 best food and drink events in Fort Worth this week

Frosé season has arrived.

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Signs of a changing season are on the menu this week. There's a big birthday party with ice cream, a grand opening for a tropical new restaurant, and the launch of a summertime favorite cocktail, frosé. Save room for crawfish because the mudbug is also still making an appearance this week, this time at a bluegrass shindig.

Thursday, April 18

Lost Oak Winery Pairing at Salute Wine Bar
The Foundry District wine bar, new in the former Thirty Eight & Vine space, will host a wine pairing featuring Burleson’s Lost Oak Winery. Select wines will be paired with small bites by Joe Lane Catering. Reservations are $12 per person and the pairing begins at 6 pm.

Friday, April 19

Melt Ice Creams 10^th Birthday Party
Visit the scoop shop’s flagship Magnolia Avenue location for a birthday party that will combine cake and ice cream. Melt will launch a limited-time birthday cake flavor made with cake batter ice cream loaded with house-made yellow cake pieces and rainbow-colored cake batter crumbles. The flavor is available for the month of April. During the party, which will run from 5-6:30 pm, guests can get complimentary yellow sprinkles and enjoy sips from La Pulga Tequila and Topo Chico. There'll also be face-painting for kids, free 10-year bandanas, and guests can create birthday cards for Melt’s non-profit partner, The Birthday Party Project, which provides birthday fun for homeless children.

Saturday, April 20

Japanese Festival Sake Bar at Rock Springs Café
The Fort Worth Botanic Garden will host its annual Japanese Festival in the 7.5-acre Japanese Garden, and this year Rock Springs Café is coming in clutch with a new sake bar. Hot and cold sake will be served along with sake-based cocktails, like the sake mule with ginger beer, sake mojito with mint and lime, and tropical sake with pineapple and orange juices. Advance tickets to the festival, which will run Saturday and Sunday, are $12 for adults, $6 for kids 6-15, and $10 for those 65-plus.

Tropic Lady Grand Opening
After more than a year in the works, The Bearded Lady’s spinoff restaurant, Tropic Lady, is now open at 2719 Race St. Menu items range from smash burgers (including a vegan version) to blackened shrimp tacos and watermelon salad. Drinks follow the tropical vibe with options like coconut margaritas and mojitos. A grand opening celebration will be held all day Saturday featuring a live DJ and the launch of a few new menu items. The party will run from 11 am-midnight.

Taco & Tequila Crawl
The fourth annual West Seventh District bar crawl will guide guests to multiple stops for tacos along the way. Participating venues include Salsa Limon, Maestro Tacos, El Chingon, Kung Fu Saloon, and Reservoir, with an after party set at Koe Wetzel’s Riot Room. The $25 ticket includes a taco at four stops of your choice along with discounted specials on margs, tequila, and beer at each bar. Registration starts at Bar 2909 beginning at 1 pm and the crawl will run until 6 pm.

Birdie’s Bluegrass Brunch & Boil
Crawfish season is in full swing, and Birdie’s Social Club is here for it. The Wild Cajun will be on-site serving crawfish boil, shrimp, gumbo starting at 2 pm, which is also when the live bluegrass music will begin. Kids and dogs welcome.

Frosé Launch Party at WineHaus
The Park Place Avenue wine bar will start serving its house-made frosé, which is reason to celebrate. Cool off with the concoction, which is blended with fresh strawberries, while listening to a yacht rock-themed set by Allan Heida. There’ll also be a grilled cheese truck on-site. The party will run from 5-8 pm.

Eat Your Art Out at The Arlington Museum of Art
More than a dozen confectionary artists from around North Texas will visit the Arlington Museum of Art (which has a new location at 1200 Ballpark Way) to present their creative culinary masterpieces. Guests can peruse the artistic confections while enjoying hors d’oeuvres, dessert samples, and wine. The fundraiser is the museum’s largest of the year and proceeds benefit its education center and summer camp program for at-risk youth. Tickets are $100 and the event will run from 7-10 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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