{"id":417983,"date":"2025-12-01T20:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417983\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:51:11","slug":"fort-worth-food-and-wine-festival-switches-things-up-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417983\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Food and Wine Festival Switches Things Up for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look, we\u2019re not dogging on the Fort Worth Food and Wine Festival<\/a>; it\u2019s an annual staple and a welcome addition to what we\u2019ll call the town\u2019s fest circuit \u2014 Main Street Arts, Oktober, and Lone Star Film being the other three. But, as much as we enjoy \u201cBurgers, Brews, + Blues\u201d and \u201cRise and Dine\u201d \u2014 long part of the culinary festival\u2019s lineup<\/a> of experiences \u2014 the event, as a whole, was primed for a refresh.<\/p>\n

This year, FWFWF is looking outside county lines to bring some fresh culinary perspectives to Cowtown. In what they\u2019re calling \u201creimagined festival events,\u201d FWFWF is teaming with other regional food festivals in Dallas, Austin, and Houston to create a more geographically diverse lineup of chefs \u2014 the likes of which, according to a press release, we\u2019ve never seen.<\/p>\n

Each city will bring their own curated team of chefs to show off their distinct regional cuisines in the \u201cTaste of Texas Row,\u201d which will serve as a main component of a new Saturday night event, Fork + Fire. Bringing some of the state\u2019s top culinary talent under one roof, you\u2019ll get to see, smell, and taste what these other Michelin Star-achieving towns have to offer and compare it to our own city\u2019s grub. (Fort Worth\u2019s Michelin Star count, we\u2019ll note, remains zero after two years of the world-famous restaurant guide arriving in Texas, and we\u2019re as weirded out as you<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Looking outside the major metropolitan areas, the Fork + Fire event will also include a showcase of statewide, off-the-beaten-path hidden gems \u2014 aptly titled \u201cHidden Gems\u201d \u2014 and \u201cThe Fireside,\u201d where \u201cchefs turn out smoke-kissed dishes over open flames.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same Thursday and Friday events from last year\u2019s fest, Tacos + Tequila and Main Event (the showcase event), remain on this year\u2019s schedule \u2014 not that we\u2019re crying about it. But Sunday brings yet another change with The Big Brunch. According to a press release, \u201cthe relaxed, wide-open Sunday finale [will feature] sweet and savory brunch offerings alongside FWFWF\u2019s signature live-fire cooking area.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEach year, our goal is to create experiences that feel meaningful, memorable, and deeply connected to our culinary community,\u201d\u00a0Julie Eastman, Executive Director of the Fort Worth Food + Wine Foundation, said in a press release.\u00a0\u201cThis refreshed festival format allows us to bring even more to the table\u2014more room for chefs to shine, more opportunities for guests to explore, and new ways for us to share what makes food culture in Fort Worth so special.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2026 Fort Worth Food and Wine Fest will kick off Thursday, April 9 at Heart of the Ranch at Clearfork, and will wrap things up that Sunday, April 12. Each event requires separate tickets, which you can purchase here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look, we\u2019re not dogging on the Fort Worth Food and Wine Festival; it\u2019s an annual staple and a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,359,29751,3596,1596,20947,990,7371,108660,7372,176004,4345,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-417983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-brian-kendall","11":"tag-chef","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dining","14":"tag-food","15":"tag-fort-worth","16":"tag-fort-worth-food-and-wine-festival","17":"tag-fortworth","18":"tag-fwfwf","19":"tag-houston","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-top-story","22":"tag-tx","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115646292852574087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}