Fred's Texas Cafe - Fort Worth, TX

Fred's Texas Cafe is tucked away on a side street in downtown Fort Worth.   Right away, you're reminded why Fort Worth is called "Cowtown."  This IS Texas, no doubt about it.

Everything from the loud friendly voices, cowboy boots and Tex-Mex food screams Texas.  It's got a funky vibe at the same time.  I actually got the feeling that we were more in hippie Austin than rough and tumble Cowtown.  There's local music and the feeling of a counter culture,  Lone Star style.

We hit the Sunday brunch just to check this place out.  I got the Migas because I had no idea what it was and was in the mood for an adventure.  I'm glad that I did.

The Wikipedia definition of Tex-Mex Migas described what I ate better than I could: "scrambled egg sauteed in butter or oil with torn strips of corn tortillas, diced onions, sliced chile peppers, diced fresh tomatoes, and cheese, plus various spices and condiments (e.g. salsa, pico de gallo). Migas are typically served with refried beans, and corn or flour tortillas are used to enfold all of the ingredients into tacos."

I can tell you this:  It was GOOD, but there was way too much of it!  We washed our food down with a couple of mamosas.  I thought that serving alcohol on Sunday before noon was against the law but, I wasn't about to complain. 

Fred's gets a solid thumbs up from me!

915 Currie Street
Fort Worth, Texas
(817) 332-0083

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Chef Point Café - Fort Worth (Watauga) Texas

Chef Point was my first Triple-D restaurant and is the standard by which I hold up all of the other restaurants that I visit.

Chef Point is no secret.  Guy Fieri has visited there and so has Paula Dean.  The wait to be seated can be well over an hour even at odd times of the day during the week.  If you come on the weekends then plan to wait a long time.  Just know that you won’t regret it.

Chef Point is not too far from my home.  So, I have the ability to get back there often, and I do.  It probably is my favorite restaurant anywhere.

Chef Point Café is located litteraly in a gas station.  Evidently, when they were starting out the owner couldn’t get a bank loan to start a restaruant but, he could get one to start a gas station.  So, they opened a gas station with a little restaurant area.  They could proabably easily aford to move into more upscale digs now but, that would ruin a big part of their charm.  They might be located in a gas station but, the menu is full-priced.

My favorite dish is probbly the Cioppino Soup.  This is an Italian fish soup.   It is a seafood soup with lots of mussels, scallops, bits of salmon, clams, calamari, shrimp and vegi’s cooked in a broth.  The last time that I was there, they served me an entire lobster tail on top.  It is absolutely incredible!  You get to enjoy it more than once because the servings are ridiculously large.  Only the most robust people can actually clean their plates.  Most of us will leave armed with shopping bags of take-home leftovers. 

On Sundays they serve their comfort food.  I've had the meatloaf each time.  The first time that I went there on a Sunday the hostess recomended it.  It was so good that I won't try anything else.

Save room for desert though.  The bread pudding is also incredible.  They featured it on Diners, Drive-Inns and Dives.  It is the hot cognac sauce that really makes this wonderful.  You can get just one and four forks if you want.  It’s that big and very filling.

5901 Watauga Rd.
Watauga, TX  76148
(817) 656-0080