There’s been a lot of news lately about restaurants making donations to charitable causes, including my column last week. But DFW Restaurant Week is a bit different. This annual event sees restaurants around Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties donate 20% of proceeds from a specific prix-fixe menu to a designated nonprofit.
Tarrant County’s charity this year is Lena Pope, a Fort Worth-based nonprofit which provides counseling and behavioral intervention programs for children and families, along with substance use treatment, teletherapy and other services, according to their website.
According to the DFW Restaurant Week website, participating restaurants will provide at least one of the following: Three-course dinners for either $49 or $59; “signature experience dinners,” which might include craft cocktails or additional courses, for $99; two-course lunches for $29; or two-course weekend brunches for $29.
Reservations have begun, according to a press release, and you can find a list of participating restaurants, make reservations, filter by types of cuisine and check out menus on the DFW Restaurant Week website.
Anyone looking to get in on the action early can also eat out at the following spots during Preview Week July 31-Aug. 3.
Savory and sweet options at Rise Souffle
This French-inspired bistro specializes in souffles, so there are four savory varieties available as a second course in their $49 three-course dinner menu. Rise’s signature salad, artichoke Andrée and marshmallow soup are the first-course dishes. Mushroom, escargot, crabmeat, and ham and Gruyere are the savory souffles offered in course two, which also houses a Rise salad or seared ahi tuna steak.
Naturally, a classic souffle is one of three desserts, along with a chocolate souffle with raspberry and creme brulee.
5135 Monahans Ave., Fort Worth; 817-737-7473
Both $49 and $59 three-course dinner options are on offer from Crú Food & Wine Bar.
For $49, customers choose between shrimp potstickers or burrata and roasted tomatoes as an appetizer, followed by either chicken alla Francese or herb roasted salmon. This dinner concludes with creme brulee or molten chocolate cake and an optional $25 wine pairing of two wines, Cakebread sauvignon blanc and Caymus cabernet sauvignon.
The $59 menu kicks off with the same appetizers, desserts and wine pairings, but offers entrees of seared jumbo shrimp or prime bistro steak.
5188 Marathon Ave., Fort Worth; 817-737-9463
Quince Riverside features brunch, lunch, dinner and signature menus
Quince Riverside is offering four dining specials throughout Restaurant Week. The $29 Saturday and Sunday brunch runs 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and starts with muffin with fruit, parfait with fruit, or a slice of French toast, followed by chilaquiles and eggs, red guajillo enchiladas, or steak and fries.
Their three-course lunch, also $29, is served Wednesday-Friday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Customers pick from lamb dumplings, rock shrimp and Caesar salad, then a second course of chicken salad, yakimeshi or a French dip sandwich. Baklava cheesecake or a flourless chocolate cake finish the meal.
The same desserts and starters appear on the $59 three-course dinner menu, available 4 p.m. to close all week, only this meal includes entrees of roasted chicken, aji pepper risotto or roasted salmon.
The $99 “signature experience” runs all week from 4 p.m. to close and opens with a five-piece nigiri sampler board, melon salad and a 12-ounce New York strip with broccolini and potatoes. The same desserts apply to this menu.
1701 River Run, Suite 181, Fort Worth; 682-385-9073
Waldorf salad, fried yucca among their cold and hot plates at Chamas do Brazil
A Brazilian steakhouse in Arlington, Chamas do Brazil will offer a $59 three-course rodizio dinner — which literally translates to rotation in Portuguese — featuring a selection of cold salads, meats, desserts and hot plates.
Meats range from bacon-wrapped filet mignon and Brazilian sausage to Cajun picanha and alcatra black Angus top sirloin. Seafood fans can find lobster bisque among the hot plates beside the fried yucca and Alfredo pasta.
Meanwhile, smoked salmon, tuna pasta salad, and a shrimp and scallops salad are among the cold plates, as are a Waldorf salad, gluten-free chicken pasta salad, a selection of cheeses and a tropical spinach salad with strawberries.
There are three cakes on the dessert list: cheesecake, chocolate cake and tres leches.
4606 S. Cooper St., Arlington; 817-375-0250
Here is a complete list of Tarrant County businesses participating in DFW Restaurant Week:
Fort Worth:
Arlington
Keller
Keller Chophouse – 124 S. Main St.
Roanoke
The Classic Café at Roanoke – 504 N. Oak St.
Southlake
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Erin Ratigan is a freelance journalist and writer specializing in narrative news features. You can find her on X @erinratigan.
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