The Mont brings mid-century vibes and New American cuisine to Montserrat
A couple barbecue dudes have opened one of the best restaurants of the year – and it has...
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Table for one – and proud of it
While Fort Worth is supposedly growing into this great food city, it still doesn’t know how to...
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Fort Redemption offers a cool meat-centric menu in a classy atmos
One of my favorite new restaurants in the city offers a meat-centric menu in a classy yet...
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6 Fort Worth restaurants with new leases on life
This month’s Where to Eat column for CultureMap is dedicated to restaurants that have...
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Unique TCU spot melds French & Asian cuisines
Megu, a one-of-a-kind new restaurant in the TCU area, brings together the flavors of Asian and...
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Profile: Mark Hitri, executive chef at Paris 7th
Local chef Mark Hitri has returned to French cooking and is helping steer the Paris 7th restaurant...
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The scratch-made pasta revolution
A new generation of chefs are tapping into the age-old tradition of making pastas the hard way: by...
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A look at downtown’s new 61 Osteria Italian restaurant
The upscale Italian restaurant comes from the same owner-chef team as Grace and Little Red Wasp....
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The best new restaurants in Fort Worth, 2022
My favorite restaurants to open between 2020 and the first half of 2022 are right here. Note: Some...
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Tre Mogli brings cool vibes & housemade pasta to South Main
The latest restaurant from the Trident Restaurant Group offers housemade pastas in a chill...
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Don Artemio brings Saltillo-inspired Mexican cuisine to the Cultural District
The posh new Don Artemio restaurant brings to the Cultural District cuisine inspired by the...
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Get Your Modo Runnin’
An exciting new Italian restaurant, il Modo, goes against the grain of typical Italian fare — and...
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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.
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