In the heart of Texas, a Mahomes Burger celebrates the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback
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The Rogers Roundhouse patio bar-and-grill is a giant success, except when it’s not.
Some nights, it’s packed with families filling the patio and parked cars spilling both directions from the grill and bar at 1616 Rogers Road.
But sometimes, on a perfectly beautiful sunny day, the patio is empty and nobody is strong-arming the stellar double cheddar-burgers or loaded tater tots.
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It’s one of the biggest puzzles in Fort Worth restaurants: Why isn’t a patio burger place with salads, smoked turkey wraps, hot dogs, funnel cakes and Curly’s Frozen Custard ice cream sandwiches busy at lunch?
If anyone needed a new reason to find Rogers Road behind Blue Goose Cantina, this week’s special is ready to play: the Mahomes Burger.
There aren’t many football stars outside the Dallas Cowboys who would get a Texas burger named in their honor.
But Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Pat Mahomes is from Whitehouse in East Texas, and he’s seen around Fort Worth so often that we can still claim him as a Texan.
Rogers’ Mahomes Burger is topped with grilled jalapenos and encircled with a giant yellow ring of cheese crisp. Come to think of it, it’s Chiefs yellow.
You might call it the Super Bowl ring.
We try and do themes — it’s hard to come up with names for a burger week after week,” owner Tommy Koons said.
The December specials were all named for Harry Potter characters.
This month’s burgers were all supposed to be named for Dallas Cowboys — but that didn’t work out.
“I watched one of the most amazing games ever last Sunday,” Koons said, referring to the Chiefs’ 42-36 playoff victory over the Buffalo Bills, “so Mahomes got the nod.”
The burger looks flashy. But frankly, it’s not as good as Rogers’ regular double cheddarburger with pico and sauce ($12).
Rogers also serves smoked turkey wraps and clubs, nachos and “Frog dogs” with queso, peppers or brown mustard.
On weekends, the brunch menu features a bacon-and-eggs platter, breakfast tacos or a bacon-and-egg biscuit sandwich ($8),
Rogers, in its third year, is important for another reason: It’s one of three grill-and-bars serving food until 2 a.m. every night. (The others are Buffalo Bros locations.)
Curly’s Frozen Custard owner Bourke Harvey is a partner here and also in the new JD’s Hamburgers on Camp Bowie Boulevard West.
It’s open daily for lunch or brunch, dinner and late night behind University Park Village, across the street from the new Courtyard Kitchen near the Union Pacific railyard; 817-367-9348, rogersroundhouse.com.
On your way, drive past Farrington Field, where the Chiefs beat the Denver Broncos, 14-10, in a 1964 pro football preseason game before a crowd of 19,400 fans who paid $1.50.
(Football fans’ note: The Chiefs and the now-Arizona Cardinals, then the Chicago Cardinals, are the only two NFL teams to ever host a game in Fort Worth.)
