Tips for DFW Restaurant Week: when is it, what’s new, where to dine and how to save

Bud Kennedy
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New restaurants such as Musume or the upgraded Texas Rangers Golf Club and old favorites such as Bonnell’s and B&B Butchers are among more than 100 Fort Worth and Dallas options for the annual DFW Restaurant Week dining specials in August.

Reservations are open now. The specials are actually offered for a month Aug. 3-Sept. 3, with 20% of each food ticket donated to the Lena Pope children’s charity for Tarrant County or to a food bank that serves Dallas.

Last year, diners generated $148,577 for the Lena Pope agency thanks to the event. Restaurant Week is operated by Philadelphia-based Audacy radio and its six local stations including KRLD/1080 AM.

The dining room at Musume in the lower level of the Sandman, in the W.T. Waggoner Building in Fort Worth June 26, 2023.
The dining room at Musume in the lower level of the Sandman, in the W.T. Waggoner Building in Fort Worth June 26, 2023.

Sushi special at Musume

Musume is a flashy new Asian Fusion restaurant in a basement — and former bank vault — at the Sandman hotel, in the historic W.T. Waggoner Building at 810 Houston St.

It’s one of several restaurants offering August;s best special: a $39 three-course dinner.

The Musume menu includes a choice of appetizer; entrees such as sesame salmon, a sushi sampler or Thai basil beef with udon noodles; and tempura ice cream.

Musume takes reservations at OpenTable.com, but be sure to add a note or call the restaurant saying it’s for the Restaurant Week Special.

New in Arlington

In the Arlington area, both the Home Plate Restaurant at the Rangers Golf Club, 701 Brown Blvd., and the new The Finch Grill & Raw Bar, 2955 Texas 161 South in Grand Prairie, are now among restaurants offering specials.

The Home Plate is also offering a $39 dinner plus a $24 lunch. The generous dinner menu features a choice of pork tenderloin, lobster risotto or carne asada with poblano hominy, plus a crab cake appetizer and dessert choices such as chocolate chip bread pudding or dark Mexican chocolate pot de creme.

The FInch, new in the EpicCentral shops, will also offer the bargain $39 dinner and a $24 lunch.

The Finch dinner menu features a choice of roast chicken or ricotta tortellini, with chocolate torte or butterscotch bread pudding for dessert.

The patio at B&B Butchers in Clearfork.
The patio at B&B Butchers in Clearfork.

More Tarrant County choices

Chef Jon Bonnell’s popular Fort Worth restaurants, Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine and Waters, will offer $49 dinner specials for one week only Aug. 7-12.

For a complete list of restaurants, dates and deals, see dfwrestaurantweek.com/reservations.

Here are the 10 restaurants that raised the most money last year for Lena Pope Home and their offers this year:

1. B&B Butchers & Restaurant, 5212 Marathon Ave., is offering a $24 lunch menu featuring soup or salad and large burgers, salads or sandwiches, and a $49 three-course dinner menu with choices including an 8-ounce filet; bbbutchers.com.

A steak salad at B&B Butchers & Steakhouse in Fort Worth.
A steak salad at B&B Butchers & Steakhouse in Fort Worth.

2. Rise n°3, 5135 Monahans Ave., is offering a $49 shorter three-course version of its regular menu of salads, savory and sweet souffles and an apple-pie tart; risesouffle.com.

3. Fitzgerald, 6115 Camp Bowie Blvd., is offering a $24 lunch, $49 dinner and $99 “signature” dinner; eatatfitz.com.

4. Mac’s on Main, 909 S, Main St., Grapevine, is offering a $39 three-course dinner with a wide variety of choices including prime rib and filet Oscar; macsteak.com.

5. Kirby’s Prime Steakhouse, 3305 Texas 114 East, Southlake, is offering a $49 dinner and $99 signature dinner; kirbyssteakhouse.com.

6. Wicked Butcher, 512 Main St., is offering a $49 dinner. The menu has not been announced; wickedbutcher.com

7. Don Artemio Mexican Heritage, 3268 W. Seventh St., is offering a $24 lunch, $29 weekend brunch, $49 three-course dinner and $99 signature dinner; donartemio.us.

Don Artemio Mexican Heritage is decorated with furnishings from Saltillo.
Don Artemio Mexican Heritage is decorated with furnishings from Saltillo.

8. Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille, 2400 Texas 114 West, Grapevine. is only offering a $99 signature five-course dinner; perryssteakhouse.com.

9. The Classic Café at Roanoke, 504 N. Oak St., Roanoke, is offering a $49 dinner with the menu to be announced.

10. Moxies, 1472 Main St., Southlake, Southlake, is offering a $24 lunch, a $29 weekend brunch and a $49 dinner; moxies.com,

Top Dallas restaurants regularly include such choices as Al Biernat’s, Lawry’s the Prime Rib, Chamberlain’s Steak & Fish and the Mansion on Turtle Creek.

DFW Restaurant Week is in its 27th year. It began as KRLD Restaurant Week, when that radio station featured a weekly show on dining out across both cities.

When the event began in 1997, it was only the second such promotion in the country after New York’s.

A short list of restaurants served meals to benefit the Tarrant Area Food Bank and Dallas-based North Texas Food Bank the first year. The promotion switched in 1998 to benefit Lena Pope Home.