If your New Year’s resolutions include dining at a new restaurant, you’re in luck. Over the past few weeks, several new restaurants have opened in and around Fort Worth, from a new burger spot to an exciting French and Asian fusion restaurant to a Malaysian cafe.

For the January edition of Where to Eat, it’s all about new.

Gusto’s Burger Bar + More
Smashburger virtuoso Jonathan Arguello moves from food truck to a brick and mortar spot at 1229 7th Ave., the historic, Near Southside bungalow best known as the original location of another burger haven, The Bearded Lady. Now that he has more leg room in the kitchen, Arguello has expanded his small menu to include several new smashburgers, including the Sweet Heat Burger, topped with grilled jalapenos and housemade salsa, and the It Is Possible Burger, which is made with an Impossible patty. There are sliders, too, along with sides such as excellent, hand-cut French fries, plus a huge selection of beer. The killer patio offers great views of Magnolia Avenue.

Enchiladas Ole
The third location of Mary Perez Vasquez’s popular enchilada emporium takes over the west side space at 6473 Camp Bowie Blvd., recently vacated by the shortly lived Boozie’s Brewery & Gourmet Sandwiches. The restaurant offers nearly a dozen variations of its namesake dish, with fillings such as brisket and cheddar, curry chicken, veggie, and ground beef. Enchiladas come topped in your choice of seven housemade sauces, ranging from mole to queso. The menu also includes Tex Mex staples like tostados, nachos, and quesadillas.

Hudson House
Upscale American restaurant, at 4600 Dexter Ave., in Arlington Heights, comes from Dallas, but it lands in a building that means a lot to Fort Worth: Originally built as an ice house in the 1920s, it was the longtime home to Celebration, one of the city’s most popular restaurants (and, coincidentally, another Dallas-born concept) throughout the late ‘80s and ‘90s. The menu is heavy on seafood, with fresh oysters, sushi, blackened white fish tacos, and a sizable lobster roll, and American classics, such as the popular double-patty burger, steak frites with truffle fries, and a popcorn chicken salad. To drink, there are signature cocktails, a long list of martinis, and wines by the glass and bottle. Daily happy hour includes $10 burgers, $3 oysters, and half price martinis, bellinis, and wine by the glass.

Malacca Cafe
Malaysian and Singapore-inspired food isn’t easy to find in these parts, so this new family-run spot in Southlake, at 2120 E. Southlake Blvd., is worth celebrating. The expansive menu includes nasi lemak, a popular Malaysian dish made up of coconut milk rice, curry chicken, anchovies, boiled egg, and sliced cucumbers; Singaporean-style hokkien mee, a dish consisting of noodles braised with sliced pork, prawn, fish cake, and squid; and yong tau foo, a hearty soup made with eggplant, fried tofu, melon, and beancurd skin stuffed with fish and meat paste. For less adventurous appetites, the restaurant offers straightforward renditions of Asian staples, such as pad thai, pineapple fried rice, and hot and sour soup.

Megu
Classy new French and Asian restaurant opened recently on the ground floor of the Campus Office Tower building at 3113 S. University Dr., in the TCU-area space last occupied by Overflow Coffee Co. The concept comes from chef/owner Peter Liang, who ran similar concepts in New York and Weatherford. The restaurant is practically a two-person show, with Liang greeting guests, taking orders, and making the food himself, with longtime service industry worker Crystal Richey assisting. Liang and Richey will guide you through the absolutely huge menu, which consists of French staples such as French onion soup, pan-seared ostrich, and steak au poivre, and Japanese noodle and rice favorites, along with a vast array of beautifully presented, and often imaginative, sushi and sashimi dishes. Liang freely chats with guests throughout their meal, creating a highly interactive, and memorable, dining experience.

Papi’s Tacos & More
Tiny Mexican restaurant on the Benbrook traffic circle, at 3520 Alta Mere Dr., takes over the pint-sized building best known as Salsa Fuego’s original home. This is the third location of Papi’s and the first in Fort Worth. Owners Joshua Vasquez and his wife Nayely Eillanuva run two other stores in Kentucky, where Vasquez was stationed while in the military. The couple specialize in Tex Mex and Mex Mex tacos, with fillings ranging from birria and seasoned ground beef to tripe and lengua. They’re cheap, too; most are $2.50. They also serve burritos big enough to feed two and an assortment of breakfast dishes such as chilaquiles, available all day.

Sabar Barbecue
Open just one day a week, Saturdays from 11 am-3 pm (or sold out), this new food trailer in the South Main area offers a Pakistani twist on Texas barbecue, a refreshing change of pace from the barbecue norm. Instead of pork ribs, there are smoked lamb ribs and in place of sausage, there’s seekh kebab, their porkless version of sausage. Smoked brisket looks traditional but is made with a rub that includes ingredients such as coriander. Likewise, thick slices of turkey incorporate flavors commonly associated with tandoori chicken. Sides include dal chawal, a lentils and rice dish, and fruit chaat, a refreshing fruit salad. In place of ho-hum bread: thick slices of naan. The trailer comes from Zain Shafi, who comes from good barbecue lineage, having worked at No. 1-ranked Goldee's BBQ. A cool and creative addition to Fort Worth’s ‘cue scene.

VBQ Smokehouse
On the other side of the BBQ coin is this vegan BBQ startup restaurant-inside-a-restaurant operating out of Mariachi's Dine-In at 5724 Locke Ave., where it's serving Southern plant-based barbecue, fixins, desserts, and cocktails. Founder Hank Storm has cooked at many DFW vegan restaurants including Spiral Diner, Vegan Food House, and V Eats. (He currently works at Mariachi's on Thursdays-Saturdays.) Open Sundays-Mondays only, VBQ does vegan brisket platters with sides such as mac & cheese, spicy green beans, coleslaw, and baked beans. On Sundays they do brunch: raspberry glazed burnt end brisket on a homemade blueberry waffle with raspberry coulee; potato hash with tofu scramble; and a mixed berry crumble parfait bowl. On Mondays, they do a brisket mac burger, brisket mac tacos, brisket elote, and chopped brisket sandwiches.