May 15 has arrived: the day that CultureMap Fort Worth unrolls its bi-monthly restaurant news roundup, featuring tasty bites of news collated from emails, press releases, and private messages on Facebook. This edition has new burgers, new menus, dishes for spring. It has shakes, steaks, and chicken sandwiches.

Here's what's happening in Fort Worth restaurant news:

Pizza Buzz, the enormously popular pizzeria and chicken joint, has opened in the former Chef Point Cafe space at 5901 Watauga Rd. in Watauga, serving their unique lineup of pizzas topped with international ingredients like tandoori chicken and a dill pickle pizza. For now, they're open with a limited menu — no beer yet. They kindly hired some of the displaced staff from Stevie's Diner, which closed in April after 13 years.

Townes Drive Thru is a new locally-owned drive-through coffee concept opening in late May at 4100 Bryant Irvin Rd, right across from Country Day School, from some of the owners of Rusty Nickle and Bodega West 7th, the speakeasy and grocery in the West Seventh District (now dubbed Artisan Circle).

Sokah is a food truck that opened in 2023 dedicated to Caribbean food that parks outside the Hotel Dryce, serving jerk chicken and a dish called doubles, a street food from Trinidad and Tobago featuring fried dough topped with curried chickpeas and chutney. Another key dish is a sandwich called “bake and fish” with catfish filets, cucumber chutney, and coleslaw.

Flips Patio Grill sports bar has a new Habanero Burger featuring a 50/50 patty topped with Habanero-Pineapple Pico, Pepper Jack cheese, lettuce, and Habanero Ranch dressing. available throughout May at Grapevine and Fort Worth locations.

JD's Hamburgers has a new lunch menu, featuring tempting salads and sandwiches. There's a Caesar, a lunch salad (which is kind of like a Cobb salad, with turkey, egg, etc.), a clever grilled pimento cheese sandwich, spinach chicken wrap, a fried green tomato sandwich with bacon & lettuce, and a fried bologna sandwich. Sandwiches are $8 to $10.

Mendocino Farms has a new lineup of limited time entrées available beginning Tuesday, May 21: Street Corn Chicken Sandwich with al pastor chicken over street corn, roasted peppers & onions on a toasted sesame roll, and Peach Goat Cheese Salad with chicken, peaches, goat cheese, almonds, fennel, Romaine, kale, and mixed greens. New sides include couscous tabbouleh, Oaxacan potato salad, macaroni salad, corn chowder, and chicken tortilla soup.

North Italia has debuted its Spring/Summer lunch, brunch, and dinner menus available now through mid-October, including sea scallops over corn risotto with asparagus, pancetta, Hot Honey & Prosciutto Pizza, tortelloni al pomodoro, lemon olive oil cake with lemon curd and blueberry compote, carrot buttercake with cream cheese frosting, and cocktails like the My Verona and Ristretto.

Twisted Root Burger Co. is celebrating its 18th birthday with new menu items: Birthday Cake Shake, featuring vanilla custard with cake pieces, topped with a cake slice; Cuban Burger with Swiss cheese, bread & butter pickles, ham, and horseradish Dijon mustard; and a sampler platter with fries, onion strings, fried pickles, fried green beans & carrots, chips, chipotle ranch, and peppercorn ranch.

Chili’s has a new Big Smasher Burger, featuring a hand-smashed burger patty with Thousand Island, red onion, lettuce, pickles, American cheese, and a Crispy Chicken Sandwich with topped with mayo and a pickle.

Pollo Campero, the Guatemalan chicken chain, has two new permanent crispy chicken sandwiches: The Buffalo Slaw Chicken Sandwich with coleslaw and buffalo sauce, and the Queso Bacon Chicken Sandwich topped with Pollo Campero's new green chile queso and bacon.

Sweetgreen is now serving Caramelized Garlic Steak available at all Dallas/Fort Worth locations and nationwide in three new entrées: The Caramelized Garlic Steak protein plate with wild rice, sweet potatoes, broccoli, tomato, and pesto vinaigrette; The Steakhouse Chopped warm bowl with Romaine, herbed quinoa, cabbage, tomato, crispy onions, blue cheese, and green goddess ranch dressing; and The Kale Caesar (Steak) salad with kale, Romaine, tomatoes, and parmesan.

Dog Haus has three specials for May featuring Colorado Green Chili: Colorado Green Chili Sausage, a smoked green chili, jack cheese & pork sausage topped with Colorado green chili sauce, corn tortilla strips, cotija cheese, and scallions between grilled King's Hawaiian rolls; Colorado Green Chili Burrito with smoked green chili, jack cheese, pork sausage, eggs, Colorado green chili sauce, white American & cotija cheeses, corn tortilla strips & scallions in a flour tortilla; and Colorado Green Chili Queso Hot Fries.

Cinnaholic has two specialty desserts for the summer: Strawberry Shortbread Roll with strawberry frosting, strawberries, and shortbread cookie crumble; and Churro cinnamon roll dusted in cinnamon sugar.

Whataburger has a new Caramel Latte Shake, a twist on a latte with espresso, caramel, and vanilla, available for a limited time, how long they do not say.

PJ's Coffee of New Orleans has new Southern Wedding Cake flavored drinks: Southern Wedding Cake Iced Latte, Wedding Cake Velvet Ice featuring almond and vanilla blended with Southern Wedding Cake cold brew concentrate, choice of milk and ice; and Southern Charm Chicory Cold Brew, a chicory-infused cold brew topped with black sugar sweet cold foam.

Cantina Laredo is featuring the USA ’Rita, a layered red, white, and blue frozen margarita with flavors of Blue Curaҫao and strawberry puree, for Memorial Day weekend from Friday, May 24-Monday, May 27 at the restaurant’s Addison and Frisco locations.

Malai Kitchen, the Thai and Vietnamese restaurant with four DFW locations, is offering specialty tequila drinks for the month of May. The week of May 10, it's a Lychee Guava Mezcal Cooler with mezcal, lychee syrup, guava juice. The week of May 17 it's a the Blood Orange Tequila Old Fashioned with añejo tequila, Grand Marnier, blood orange simple syrup, angostura and whiskey bitters. The week of May 24 it's a Mezcal Mule with mezcal, agave, passion fruit puree, lime and cucumber topped with ginger beer.

Shiner Bock released three new beers for summer: Shiner Shandy, !Orale Limon¡ and Tex Hex Passion Fruit IPA, as well as a sober Rode0 variety pack with Citrus Wit, Red Amber, and Golden Brew.

Silver Fox Steakhouse and III Forks Steakhouse are both serving three new cocktails available through September 9: Sparkling Paloma with Herradura Reposado Tequila, Q Sparkling Grapefruit; Gunpowder G&T with Gunpowder Irish Gin, Q Classic Tonic; and Aperol Spritz with Aperol, Lunetta Prosecco, Q Club Soda.

Candor Food Chain is a new technology that allows shippers to transport frozen and refrigerated food across the U.S. using a fully reusable cold packaging solution that allows pallet and box-sized frozen and refrigerated shipments to go by regular transport and stay frozen or refrigerated for up to nine days. The release is short on how they do this, but the eco-safe packaging and cooling components are non-toxic, safe, and food-grade, which means no more dry ice. All boxes are reusable. The Candor team picks up the chilled and filled palettes, delivers them, and then retrieves packaging for cleaning and reuse.