Where to eat in Fort Worth in 2026
From fancy Mexican downtown to the long-awaited Vietnamese restaurant from Hao Tran to a new...
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Tag: American food
Fort Worth’s best new restaurants 2025
This was a great year for new Fort Worth restaurants, from small mom-and-pops to opulent...
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Goldee’s new cookbook + other news
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Top Chef alum returns to Fort Worth with new restaurant
Top Chef alum Casey Thompson has returned to Fort Worth to open the new Duchess restaurant in the...
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She moved to Brooklyn for love. She came home with a restaurant.
Texan-turned-New Yorker-turned-Texan-again Deborah Williamson is living her best life — and...
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A preview of new restaurants coming to Fort Worth 2025
It’s going to be another big year for new restaurant openings in Fort Worth. Here’s a...
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97 West’s new brunch menu + other news
97 West recently updated its brunch menu with nearly a dozen new offerings, Vickery Cafe moves...
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Shannon Osbakken talks beer, burgers & her love of Fort Worth
To mark the arrival of Shannon Osbakken’s great new restaurant, Tropic Lady, I chatted with...
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Oma Leen’s worth the drive to Hico
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The Taste Project expanding to Arlington
On the heels of a donation from a Tik Tok foodie, the non-profit restaurant known as The Taste...
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Culinary couple helping revive downtown’s dining scene
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I’m a Fort Worth native who’s been writing about my hometown since 1992, when I joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Over a 26-year career there — 14 years on staff and 12 as a freelancer — I traveled across town, the state, and the country, writing about music, pop culture, food, and people, both famous and unsung, from Billy Joel to a young high school couple in love in a small Texas town.
My work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, American Way, Texas Music, Pop Culture Press, and MTV.com. I currently freelance for Fort Worth Magazine and CultureMap.
This site is an ongoing work in progress, updated regularly with new stories and older work spanning my now 30-year-plus career.