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Tips for DFW Restaurant Week: what’s new, where to dine, how to save, and best deals

Bud Kennedy
·4 min read

DFW Restaurant Week really lasts a month.

That’s almost enough time to try all 25 area restaurants serving discount deals to help promote a local children’s charity.

Three old-time favorites — Bonnell’s in Fort Worth, plus Piccolo Mondo and the Sanford House in Arlington — will end the $49 dinner specials Aug. 13.

But more than 20 other restaurants will extend the deals, most as long as Labor Day.

Here are the basics:

Don Artemio Mexican Heritage is an upscale restaurant and steakhouse serving foods from Coahuila.
Don Artemio Mexican Heritage is an upscale restaurant and steakhouse serving foods from Coahuila.

▪ 25 area restaurants serve a $39 or $49 three-course dinner menu.

▪ Some also serve a $99 premium dinner, a $24 two-course lunch or a $29 brunch,

▪ 20% of each meal ($5-$20) is donated to the Lena Pope family counseling agency.

Don Artemio Mexican Heritage is decorated with furnishings from Saltillo.
Don Artemio Mexican Heritage is decorated with furnishings from Saltillo.

(More restaurants serve similar specials in Dallas. The donations there benefit that city’s food bank.)

The list of Tarrant County restaurants includes exciting new choices like Don Artemio Mexican Heritage, 3268 W. Seventh St., and Fitzgerald, 6115 Camp Bowie Blvd.

The best surprise might be Fitzgerald, a seafood restaurant from TV food show winner Ben Merritt.

The dining room at The Fitzgerald, chef Ben Merritt’s Fort Worth seafood restaurant.
The dining room at The Fitzgerald, chef Ben Merritt’s Fort Worth seafood restaurant.

New to Restaurant Week: Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald has hit its stride, serving notable grilled seafood, chargrilled oysters, shrimp and grits, ahi tuna and generous salads.

For Restaurant Week, Fitzgerald offers a $24 lunch. Choices include a catfish plate with green-chile grits, jalapeno sausage and a salad or soup.

At dinner ($49), the feature is blackened redfish with chorizo and succotash; a garlic-butter Southern pork steak with grits and greens; or ahi tuna with soup or salad. Desserts include peach-caramel buttermilk mini-pies or rum-butter banana pudding.

Fitzgerald is open for lunch weekdays and dinner nightly; 817-349-9245, Eatatfitz.com.

Chilaquiles verdes at Don Artemio.
Chilaquiles verdes at Don Artemio.

New to Restaurant Week: Don Artemio

Don Artemio, a Coahuila-style upscale restaurant, charcoal steakhouse and anejo bar, is featuring a $49 dinner with a choice of entrees: salmon in pipian, pecan-stuffed poblanos or enchiladas in tamarind mole sauce.

There’s also a $99 premium dinner with a charbroiled filet mignon on chipotle sauce, or sea bass on mole sauce, plus wines and a cocktail.

Chef Juan Ramón Cárdenas of Saltillo, Mexico’s “Mr. Cabrito,” opened the restaurant with local partner Adrian Burciaga, formerly of Cafe Modern.

“I don’t just like Fort Worth, I love Fort Worth!” Cárdenas said in a recent Star-Telegram Eats Beat podcast episode, available on iTunes or any podcast source.

Don Artemio has added all-day valet parking on the Arch Adams Street side (one block west of University Drive).

It’s open for lunch or brunch and dinner daily; 817-470-1439., donartemio.us.

Sky Creek Kitchen is a new hotel restaurant in Southlake.
Sky Creek Kitchen is a new hotel restaurant in Southlake.

New to Restaurant Week: Sky Creek Kitchen

Sky Creek, 251 Texas 114 East, Southlake, is a hotel restaurant with a menu designed by Dallas hall-of-fame chef Dean Fearing.

The Restaurant Week menu offers both lunch and dinner, each with Fearing flavors.

The dinner choices ($49) are a skirt steak with shishito-chimichurri or barbecue chicken with mashed potatoes and green beans, plus a Caesar or chipotle chicken tortilla soup and either a mocha-cayenne chocolate cake or toasted coconut flan.

Lunch is a deal at $24 for the same steak or chicken plus a Caesar or house salad.

Sky Creek, inside the Delta Hotels Southlake, is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily; 214-727-0811, skycreekkitchen.com.

More choices

More Restaurant Week options, with dates and menus listed at lenapope.org/dfwrestaurantweek.

▪ Five restaurants are serving a $39 dinner, even more savings.

They are: Rise n°3 Souffle, 5135 Monahans Ave., Fort Worth, a Restaurant Week favorite; Mac’s on Main, 909 S. Main St., Grapevine, another long-standing participant serving a bargain steak or prime rib dinner; the Home Plate or Ventana golf course restaurants in Arlington; and Primo’s in Flower Mound.

▪ Three downtown Fort Worth restaurants are serving $49 dinners.

One, Toro Toro, even has free valet parking for diners. The menu features a choice of achiote salmon, a flatiron steak or charred cauliflower with pipian, plus appetizer, sides and churros.

Waters, a Restaurant Week regular, is serving the special through Aug. 21. It features grilled shrimp, salmon, a filet mignon or crawfish cakes with salad and either chocolate-pecan sheet cake or buttermilk pie.

Wicked Butcher is offering a wide range of six choices, from filet mignon to ginger-miso sea bass, with an appetizer and black-cherry cheesecake or a chocolate-hazelnut tart.

▪ Northeast Tarrant County has a wide range of choices: Bacchus Kitchen, Mac’s or Perry’s, Grapevine; Kirby’s Prime Steakhouse, Moxies or Sky Creek, Southlake; Next Bistro, Colleyville; Classic Cafe, Roanoke; and Primo’s or Sfereco, Flower Mound

▪ At the Shops at Clearfork, B&B Butchers & Restaurant is serving one of the largest menus at both lunch and dinner. Chicago-based Cityworks Eatery also has specials.

▪ A West 7th nightclub, Concrete Cowboy, is offering the food specials but has not promoted the menu.

Check the Lena Pope website for exact dates and specials, and always book advance reservations mentioning DFW Restaurant Week.