Insider picks to close out DFW Restaurant Week: $39 deals in Fort Worth, Arlington
Two new Arlington-area restaurants and one older Fort Worth favorite are among restaurants still offering $39 dinner specials with appetizer and dessert as DFW Restaurant Week ends Sept. 3.
They’re among a total of 20 local restaurants offering lunch, brunch or dinner specials and donating from $5 to $20 of each dinner to a Fort Worth-based children’s agency as part of the annual regional summer business promotion.
One of the Arlington-area restaurants offering $39 three-course dinners — the least expensive and best bargain — is Zack’s Bistro, 900 E, Copeland Road (Interstate 30 at North Collins Street). Of the $39, $7 is donated to Lena Pope.
Zack’s is the work of Zack Moutaouakil, also the operator of the Keller Chophouse and Mercury Chophouse restaurants.
Zack’s three courses include a choice of prime filet medallions, blackened chicken pasta, a pork chop or spicy salmon “dynamite,” plus a chopped or Caesar salad and cheesecake or tiramisu.
The cousin Keller Chophouse, 124 S. Main St., Keller, is serving a similar $49 special.
Zack’s is also drawing Viridian neighborhood residents at lunch for specials such as stroganoff or a smoked-bacon Roquefort patty melt, Moutaouakil said.
The other Arlington-area restaurants offering the best $39 dinner value are:
▪ The Finch, in EpicCentral at 2955 S. Texas 161, Grand Prairie, serving a choice of pasta or roast chicken with appetizer and dessert;
▪ Or the Home Plate Restaurant at Texas Rangers Golf Club, 701 Brown Blvd., with a choice of flatiron carne asada, lobster risotto or pork tenderloin.
The Home Plate’s desserts are notable: chocolate-chip bread pudding, dark chocolate pot de creme or strawberry shortcake.
For a nicer night out in Arlington, Cut & Bourbon at the Loews is offering a $99 deluxe prime strip dinner special and donating $20 to Lena Pope.
CRÚ has $39 dinners; eight Fort Worth choices for $49
In Fort Worth, CRÚ Food & Wine Bar, 5188 Marathon Ave., offers diners an extra price break with a $39 dinner or a choice of an upgrade for $49.
The $39 menu includes a salad or appetizer, salmon or lemon chicken Francese with CRÚ’s familiar molten chocolate cake or creme brulee.
Add three wines for an extra $25. The upgraded $49 dinner comes with a choice of short rib or risotto.
Eight Fort Worth restaurants are offering $49 dinners and donating $8 to Lena Pope: B&B Butchers, Del Frisco’s Grille, Fitzgerald, Goat & Vine, il Modo Italian, Pinstripes, Rise N°3 Souffle and Toro Toro.
B&B Butchers, 6212 Marathon Ave., is offering a choice of seven entrees including a filet. Houston restaurateur Ben Berg’s Clearfork restaurant was the No. 1 donor to Lena Pope last year.
Fitzgerald, 6115 Camp Bowie Blvd., is serving blackened redfish with a notable dessert: blueberry banana cream pie.
Duck, steak among Northeast Tarrant choices
In the Northeast Tarrant County area, five restaurants are continuing the $49 specials through Sept. 3: the Classic Cafe at Roanoke, Del Frisco’s Grille, Keller Chophouse, Kirby’s Steakhouse and Moxie’s.
The locally owned Classic, 504 N. Oak St. in Roanoke, is an annual Restaurant Week favorite. This year’s menu offers three choices including a duck breast with gazpacho or salad and blueberry-buttermilk pie.
The four choices at Kirby’s, 3305 Texas 114 East, include a filet, with appetizers including a crab cake or spinach and a caramel panna cotta dessert.
