Trick or Treat

Fort Worth restaurants do up Halloween with spooky treats and events

Eatzi's Halloween cookies

Eatzi's

For some people, Halloween is the best holiday of the year — and Fort Worth restaurants are ready to serve, whether that's special sweet treats or spooky events, there’s plenty going down during the witching season. (For a list of Haunted Houses, click here.)

Byblos Mediterranean
Special version of Baba Ghanoush Dip featuring eggplant mashed with garlic and tahini is served with 10 hand-carved pita faces. $32.50, order online.

Crepology Cafe
Arlington crepe restaurant is doing a Halloween party with a themed menu for kids including items such as bat wings, mummy wrapped crepe, and graveyard smores. October 31, 4-8 pm.

Dan's Bagels
Trophy Club shop is doing a tinted swirled bagel in the classic Halloween colors of orange and black — made with the same signature sourdough recipe — which they recommend with their color-sprinkled Halloween funfetti schmear. October 24-31.

Del Frisco’s Grille
All outlets of Del Frisco’s Grille will host all-day happy hour for Halloween with bites like cheesesteak eggrolls and tuna tacos, and cocktails like the famed VIP for $10. Select draft and bottled beer are $5. Locations include Fort Worth, Southlake, and Plano. October 31, 4-10 pm.

Dunkin'
Doughnut and coffee chain has a new Candy Bar Signature Latte, featuring espresso with chocolate, toffee, pretzel, and peanut butter flavors, with whipped cream, mocha drizzle, and crumbled candy bar pieces, available hot or iced. The Spider Doughnut is a purple-frosted doughnut topped with a glazed chocolate doughnut hole, with chocolate drizzle for spider legs and vanilla flavored icing for the eyes. Through October 31.

Eatzi’s Market & Bakery
Halloween goodies include: The Ginger Dead Man, a soft, spiced skeleton-shaped gingerbread cookie; Spooky Cupcakes that include Vanilla Jack-O’-Lantern, Chocolate Mummy, and Red Velvet Spider; and chocolate-covered Oreos dressed up for Halloween. Through October 31.

El Primo's
Mansfield restaurant is hosting a Halloween Spooktacular with costume contest, spooky treats, and creepy cocktails. October 31, 5-10 pm.

Fort Worth Stockyards
Stockyards Spooktacular Halloween Festival will be a night of family fun featuring hayrides, face painting, spooktacular shows, and costume contest. Trick-or-treating for kids 12 & under in costume at participating SY Station and Mule Alley retailers. October 31.

Fuzzy’s Taco Shop
For these days of the dead, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop offers a special combo plate and adult beverage. For $7 (not $6.66?) the Draco Taco combo includes a taco with grilled steak and seared cheese entombed inside a blue corn tortilla, topped with vampiro-style sauce, guacamole, garlic aioli, lime, crumbled feta, and crisp red tortilla strips. Each order comes with draco queso and chips. Fuzzy’s Drac A ‘Rita frozen margarita mixes Bacardi rum with strawberry purée, rimmed with black salt, and garnished with a pair of vampire teeth. Through November 9.

Harvest Hall’s Nightmare on Main Street
Month-long pop-up at Grapevine’s downtown food hall features over-the-top Halloween décor, playfully themed cocktails, such as the Monster Mash-a-rita and Berry Scar’, and themed events, such as Ghouling Dueling Pianos, and Live Band Karaoke. Through October 31.

Hoppin' Grapevine
Boos & Brews features DJ, Halloween treats, and festive drinks Enjoy free Halloween candy, sip on pumpkin beer & cider, pumpkin pie shots, and creepy cocktails. Entry is free, reserve here. October 31st, 6-10 pm.

Joe T. Garcia’s
Mexican restaurant will celebrate a weekend of festivities to mark Dia de los Muertos on November 1 and 2, including special altars to honor members of the Joe T. Garcia family, plus a Skinny Margarita made with La Pulga Blanco Tequila, photo booth, and a La Pulga sampling. November 1 from 4-8 pm.

La Cabrona
Dia de los Muertos Celebration outdoor festival at Artisan Circle with will feature artisan vendors, mariachis, and street-food style dishes including tacos, elote, and fruit cups. November 2, 11 am–5 pm.

Messina Hof Winery
Grapevine winery is hosting two events on Halloween night: Spooktacular Winetail Class features three Hallowine drinks paired with spooky hors d’oeuvres; tickets start at $57. Murder Mystery Dinner: Chamber of Screams is an interactive murder mystery dinner with a Halloween-themed buffet and wine pairings; tickets are $93 including fees. October 31, 6:30 pm.

New York Pizza & Pasta
Location at 4750 Bryant Irvin Rd. will give a free slice of pizza to anyone in costume. October 31, 4-8 pm.

Pete's Dueling Piano Bar
Both Frisco and Fort Worth locations will host the Spooktacular Halloween Bash with live music and festive fun, as well as a spirited Costume Contest, where the winner will take home a VIP table for four to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2026 in style. October 31, 8 pm.

SusieCakes
Artisan bakery is doing sugar cookies shaped like ghosts and pumpkins, themed cupcakes, and cookie-decorating kits in creative designs such as Black SusieKitty, Spiderweb Vintage, Ghost, Jack o’ Lantern, and Barbie Halloween cakes, as well as the Boo Cupcake Box. For Día de los Muertos, SusieCakes is offering a cake with a hand-piped buttercream sugar skull. Available through October 31 at 6 pm.

Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall
Stockyards haunt will screen two cult horror classics — The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Pearl—on the big screen. Costumes encouraged. Free; RSVP here. October 29, doors at 6 pm, show starts at 7 pm.

TX Whisky Ranch
Fort Worth Distillery is hosting two spooky events: On October 24, it's a 6 pm screening (or is it screaming?) of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with food trucks, craft cocktails and tarot or palm readings. Tickets are $12. On October 25, from 12-5 pm, it's their annual Costumes & Cocktails party with axe throwing, DJ, food trucks, and a costume contest with a TX Whiskey barrel grand prize. Tickets are $15.

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Where to eat

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

Little Tavern

Salmon at Little Tavern

The November edition of Where to Eat, CultureMap's monthly roundup of new or interesting places to try, has exactly that: five new and interesting places to try. There's bargain Greek food, bagels, Mexican seafood, upscale Indian, and a great casual spot from two of Fort Worth's favorite chefs.

Here's where to eat in Fort Worth for November:

Danny’s Greek Cafe
Small counter-service spot recently opened in a former Mr. Gatti’s offers classic Greek and American comfort dishes. On the Mediterranean side, there five pita sandwiches including traditional gyro meat, plus lamb, chicken, shrimp, and falafel, priced from $8 to $10. If you don't want to do pita bread, they have the same offerings in a rice bowl version. There are also lamb kebabs over rice, baklava, and a mezze platter with hummus, olives, feta cheese, dolma, and pita bread. American foods include buffalo wings, meatball subs, and Philly cheesesteaks. The restaurant is from Joe Lusha, whose background is in Albanian-Italian food; he also owns a pizza place, Joe’s Pizza Italian Cuisine and Bar, in far southwest Fort Worth.

Dan’s Bagels
Beloved Trophy Club bagel shop now has a spinoff near TCU in a former Chip'd space at 2430 Forest Park Blvd., serving the same menu of bagels and sandwiches as the original. Dan's was founded in 2021 by husband-and-wife Dan and Jessica Hilbert, who went and trained at a shop in New Jersey to learn the craft of East Coast-style bagels. Sourdough bagel flavors run from standard poppy seed, garlic, salt, and cinnamon raisin to specialty options like French toast, pizza egg, and cacio pepe. They also serves a variety of house-made lunch salad, egg, and deli sandwiches. The TCU location is operated by franchisees Luis and Mona Lisa Galicia, and there are at least two more locations scheduled for Argyle and Grapevine.

Dos Mares
Long-awaited coastal Mexican seafood restaurant opening on November 14 is a sibling of Don Artemio, the steakhouse from Mexico which opened in Fort Worth in 2022. Both concepts are from Chef Juan Ramón Cárdenas and his chef son Rodrigo Cárdenas. At Dos Mares, their menu — yet to be unveiled — features ceviches, baja-style tacos with beer-battered fish on house-made tortillas, and seafood in upscale presentations such as the grilled butterfly-cut branzino with avocado mousse and black bean puree they served at the 2025 Fort Worth Food & Wine Festival. Cocktails will boast a tropical twist like the Kiwi Coco Margarita with tequila, kiwi, lime, and coconut water. The restaurant has been handsomely outfitted with blonde woods and handmade tiles in oceanic aquas and greens.

Karmma & Kocktails
Oddly-spelled new restaurant in Grapevine recently opened in the former Teatro space, from the same ownership group, who are now bringing Nepalese and Indian dishes to the Main Street corridor. The menu runs a sprawling six pages, ranging from classic butter chicken and samosa appetizers, to Himalayan comfort foods like momo dumplings and thukpa, the chicken noodle soup of Nepal. Unexpected fusion items include chicken wings in a fiery Indo-Chinese red sauce; chow mein, the Chinese stir-fried dish; and of all things, a version of American chop suey featuring crispy noodles topped with chicken and stir-fried vegetables in a sweet and tangy sauce. They have a full bar, too.

Little Tavern
New concept from chefs Felipe Armenta and Graham Elliot is now open in the former F1 Smokehouse space — a smaller version of The Tavern, their longtime staple. The menu includes a smashburger, fish tacos, birria tacos, enchiladas, fried chicken, and their version of the Zuni Salad from San Francisco’s Zuni Cafe with chicken, spinach, pecans, walnuts, bacon, and egg. Mostly everything is under $20, and there's a big selection of appetizers like deviled eggs, nachos, chips & queso, and gorgeous grilled artichokes, along with a full bar featuring craft cocktails such as a frozen margarita and a lavender martini.

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