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Cheers to the best Fort Worth restaurants for brunch on New Year's Day 2024

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New Year’s Day falls on a Monday this year, and some restaurants are opening up for brunch service to bring in 2024. It’s also National Bloody Mary Day, the perfect excuse to kick off the year with a cocktail – or cure a hangover from the night before. Here are some of Fort Worth’s best spots for New Year’s Day brunch. (Note: This list will grow as more are announced.) Still need New Year's Eve dining plans? That list is here.

B&B Butchers & Restaurant
The Shops at Clearfork steakhouse will serve its annual “New Year’s Day Hangover Cure Brunch,” including Wagyu and eggs, crab cake Benedict, and a black-eyed peas and greens special. There’ll also be brunch cocktails and live music by Big Mike. Brunch service will run from 11 am-3 pm. Reservations are recommended.

Bohemian Bull
The Grapevine destination for pub food and game-watching will host a New Year’s Day brunch and pajama party. Keep the cozy pjs on for $10 mimosa carafes and $8 all-you-can-eat pancakes. There’ll also be DJ music. The party starts at 9 am and runs until 2 pm.

Chef Point Bar & Restaurant
Brunch will be served all day, 11 am-7 pm, at the Colleyville destination for elevated comfort food. Don’t miss the black-eyed pea bloody Mary special or go big with Chef Point’s Bloody Best double sized bloody Mary garnished with fried chicken, grilled shrimp, a slider, waffle fries, and more.

Chef Point Cafe Go big in 2024 with Chef Point's "Bloody Best." Facebook/Chef Point Restaurant & Bar

El Chingon
The West 7th-area Mexican restaurant and bar lets revelers sleep in and starts celebrating New Year’s Day at 3 pm with "La Cruda Mondays." Specially priced signature dishes and drinks will include $8 tortas served with loaded garlic fries; $4 sopa Azteca; and $3 micheladas and house margaritas. Festivities include dancing to DJs Shadowman and Alex P; party packages are available.

Funky Picnic Brewery & Café
The South Main Village restaurant and brewery will debut a new brunch menu on New Year’s Day, including new brunch cocktails. (A sneak peek of the menu revealed waffles topped with bananas and bacon, below.) Brunch will be served from 11 am-3 pm. Reservations can be made here.

Funky Picnic brunch, waffles Funky Picnic is unveiling new brunch menu items on New Year's Day.Facebook/Funky Picnic

HG Sply Co.
Brunch will include cranberry pecan muffins, veggie hash, protein pancakes, sausage breakfast tacos, bacon breakfast on a bun, Julio’s bloody Mary, mimosas, and espresso martini. Reservations for the Fort Worth-WestBend location can be booked here.

Hot Box Biscuit Club
Normally closed on Mondays, Hot Box Biscuit Club will open for a New Year’s Day pop-up with guest chef Kevin Martinez of Tokyo Café. Longtime Hot Box fans might remember the biscuit institution’s coveted brunch pop-ups of years past, and this will be similar with limited seating and a surprise set menu. Tickets are $50 and include a welcome cocktail. (The bar will be open for additional purchases.) The party starts at 10:30 am.

Malai Kitchen
Vietnamese-Thai restaurant with locations in Fort Worth and Southlake will be open for brunch with limited-edition dishes including Lao quail crostini, Thai crab cakes, Vietnamese 5-spice pork belly, “drunken” filet mignon, night market cotton candy, and Thai tea panna cotta. Plus cocktail specials passion fruit fizz, apricot old fashioned, and Singapore sling for two; 11 am-2 pm.

Pinstripes
The Shops at Clearfork bowling and bocce ball destination will host its popular brunch buffet on New Year’s Day from 9 am-2 pm. Expect made-to-order omelets, a waffle station, carving station, salads, breakfast dishes, chef’s specialty entrees, and more. The buffet is $27 for adults and $13 for kids 6-12.

Pinstripes Fort Worth Bowling Lanes Come for brunch, stay for bowling at Pinstripes. Photo courtesy of Pinstripes

Razzoo’s Cajun Café
The cure for a holiday hangover is available at Razzoo’s. Visit for $5 Moonshine Marys and $5 mimosas all day long. Save room for black-eyed peas, a New Year’s Day tradition to ensure good luck and prosperity for 2024.

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Teresa Gubbins contributed to this report.

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Hottest headlines of 2024

The top 10 restaurant stories that Fort Worth devoured most in 2024

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Three savory pancakes from A Taste of Europe.

Editor's note: Fort Worth readers were hungry for dining news in 2024. Which stories did they savor the most? News of a Guy Fieri-approved restaurant in Arlington facing closure; buzzy new Italian, burger, and chicken eateries; and Fort Worth's first H-E-B store topped the list. There was also the chance to vote for the city's best new restaurant, a new concept from McDonald's, and more.

Here are the 10 most-read restaurant stories of 2024 in Fort Worth:

1. Arlington restaurant featured on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives to close. A restaurant in Arlington that got the Guy Fieri bump announced it was closing: A Taste of Europe, the long-running, European-inspired restaurant in Arlington that was featured on an episode of the Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, said they would close in August. After receiving an outpouring of support from local diners, however, co-owner and chef Daniel Tsalko said they would work to keep the restaurant alive; it would still close August 18 so repairs could be made to the building, but then would reopen in November.

2. 16 best new restaurants in Fort Worth compete for 2024 Tastemaker Award. The 2024 CultureMap Fort Worth Tastemaker Awards category for Best New Restaurant doubled in size from 2023, this year drawing 16 nominees. Best New Restaurant annually is the only category where readers decide who wins, in a fun bracket-style format. Plank Seafood Provisions took home the 2024 trophy.

3. Buzzy new burger joint is tucked inside Fort Worth convenience store. A Fort Worth chef has resurrected a convenience-store dine-in restaurant in the Fairmount area where he’s specializing in one of the city’s favorite cuisines: burgers. Ray’s Burgers, found inside the Corner Store at 1945 8th Ave., opened in early July and is serving old-fashioned hamburgers and cheeseburgers, made on an old-school flat top grill.

4. Supermarket chain H-E-B has good news about store at Alliance Fort Worth. Supermarket giant H-E-B continued its expansion in Dallas-Fort Worth in 2024. The Texas grocery announced it would officially open the doors of H-E-B Alliance, at 3451 Heritage Trace Pkwy., in Fort Worth on April 10. The store had been in the works since 2022. It opened with great fanfare, followed by a store opening in Mansfield, and one on the way in Bedford.

H-E-B grocery store H-E-B opened its first Fort Worth store in 2024. Photo courtesy of H-E-B

5. McDonald's to open its first CosMc's beverage spinoff in Fort Worth. McDonald's debuted a new concept called CosMc's focused on beverages, with its first location opening in the Fort Worth area. The smaller-sized beverage-led drink shop would open in Watauga, at 7304 Denton Hwy., on April 2. That would be followed by a location in Arlington and one in south Fort Worth.

6. Buzzy Filipino fried chicken chain to open a restaurant in Arlington. A buzzy Filipino chain came to Arlington: Jollibee, known for its kooky combination of fried chicken and spaghetti, opened its first location in Arlington, at 1700 W. Pleasant Ridge Rd., across from the Parks Mall near I-30 and Cooper Road, on August 16.

7. Miss Hooters beauty pageant to take place in Fort Worth for first time. An international beauty contest took place in Fort Worth for the first time: It's the 2024 Miss Hooters International Pageant, and it took place on Thursday, August 22 at Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth. The event was open to the public for the first time since 2021. Cassidy Welch from Grand Prairie was the winner.

Meet the 2024 Miss Hooters International winner Cassidy Welch. Hooters

8. Amazing Italian restaurant with international roots to open in Fort Worth. A new family-owned Italian restaurant specializing in freshly made pastas opened in the South Main area. Called Bocca Osteria Romana, it opened over the summer at 411 S. Main St. #104 in the space last occupied by Rancho Loma Vineyards. The restaurant would be the first stateside concept from a trio of Texas-born family members and restaurateurs - brothers Alfonso and Alessandro Salvatore and their cousin Eduardo Mariel.

9. Devastating closures lead this round of Fort Worth restaurant news. This edition of Fort Worth restaurant news included some saddening closures, new menu items, and a couple of interesting company collaborations. There were also a couple of crawfish events going on, just in time for peak crawfish season.

10. Texas Fish Chicken Grill takes winning formula to new Arlington location. There's a new restaurant in Arlington serving fried fish and fried chicken in one convenient spot: Called Texas Fish Chicken Grill, it's part of a family-owned mini-chain, which opened on June 27 at 1030 W Arkansas Ln. #206, in the former D. Smith's Chicken and Fish (which relocated). Texas Fish Chicken Grill is owned by Obie Alananzeh and his five brothers, who debuted the concept in Fort Worth in July 2023.

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Three savory pancakes from A Taste of Europe.

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