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Dining
If you love steak, Fort Worth is for you. Meat here is hefty, fresh and prepared with tender loving care, especially in the Stockyards area, where the many good home-cooking cafés are frequented as much by cattle ranchers as by visitors. Mex and Tex-Mex tastes are well covered though vegetarians will do less well; try the upmarket restaurants downtown. The café in the Kimbell Art Museum makes for a pleasant place to snack or eat lunch.
Angelo's Barbecue 2533 White Settlement Rd tel 817/332-0357. Venerable westside restaurant open for lunch and dinner and cited by locals as the best in the city.
Angeluna 215 E 4th St tel 817/334-0080. Tasty Caribbean-Asian-Southern fusion food across the street from Bass Hall.
Cattlemen's Steak House 2458 N Main St tel 817/624-3945. Dim lighting and wall-sized portraits of prize steers. A Fort Worth institution thanks to its steaks and margaritas. Dinner is around $20.
J & J Oyster Bar 612 N University Drive tel 817/335-2756. Try the fresh crab and oysters at this local institution near the Cultural District.
Joe T Garcia's Mexican Dishes 2201 N Commerce St tel 817/626-4356. Nationally famed Mexican restaurant in the owners' 1930s home, serving hefty set tortilla/fajita dinners (around $10) and frosty margaritas. Outdoor seating available next to the family swimming pool.
Mi Cocina 509 Main St tel 817/877-3600. Healthy Tex-Mex dishes in a modern, eclectically decorated joint.
Star Café 111 W Exchange Ave tel 817/624-8701. Neon-lit café serving some of the least expensive steaks - not just in the Stockyards but in the entire city. They also know how to chicken-fry steak well.
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