This week in gluttony

These are the 5 best food and drink events in Fort Worth this week

Lauren Klipfel, new owner of Roy Pope Grocery, hosts free wine tastings every Friday.

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School is back in session for most students this week, but on the food event scene, summer is still in full swing. There's a summer whiskey tasting, summer Sunday supper, and a summertime afternoon tea, Texas-style (meaning the tea will be iced). Plan for a free wine tasting on Friday to kick off the weekend.

Wednesday, August 21

Summer Sipping Series at Ellerbe Fine Foods
The last of Ellerbe Fine Foods’ summer tasting series – which coincided with the farm-to-table restaurant’s 15 ^th anniversary – will feature whiskey. Guests will enjoy a guided whiskey tasting highlighting regional variations and learn how to craft whiskey cocktails with recipes to take home. The event is $50 and begins at 6 pm.

Friday, August 23

Free Wine Tasting at Roy Pope Grocery
Roy Pope Grocery recently rebooted with new ownership, and Friday means it’s time for their new complimentary wine tasting, which features a new varietal and vineyard each week. Visit anytime from 5–7 pm.

Saturday, August 24

Wine Dinner at Los Vaqueros West
The new Willow Park outlet of the Fort Worth Tex-Mex institution (whose original Stockyards location is currently on the move), will host its first wine dinner featuring four courses by new chef Manny Vasquez. Wine pairings will be from historic Spanish vineyard Herederos Del Marques de Riscal. Standout menu items include garlic shrimp over jalapeno Monterrey Jack grits with a sherry butter sauce, braised short rib with whipped Yukon potatoes, and triple chocolate mousse. Dinner is $75 plus tax and gratuity, and begins at 6 pm.

Sunday, August 25

Texas Afternoon Tea at The Londoner Colleyville
The longtime British-inspired bar and restaurant will host a Sunday afternoon tea service, Texas-style. The menu includes cheese and charcuterie, scone with clotted cream, tea sandwiches, fruit parfait, macaron, Victoria sponge cake, sparkling wine, and – because it’s August in Texas – iced tea. Price is $38 plus tax and gratuity, and the tea service will run from 12–3 pm. A la carte menu options will be available.

Summer Sunday Supper at Rosen House Inn
Chef Victor Villarreal will visit the Near Southside bed and breakfast for a pop-up Sunday supper. Courses include champagne ricotta salad, red snapper with rose aguachile, smoked butter poached swordfish, and a surprise dessert by Dallas’ Nena Postreria. Drink pairings are included, while they last. Dinner is $120, plus gratuity, and begins at 6 pm.

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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