Mermaid Raw Bar

This mermaid-inspired raw bar and champagne room sits adjacent to Paradiso along Bishop Avenue. The open-air courtyard has couches and is a great space for chatting and watching the vibrant scene pass-by. There’s a small but well built cocktail menu and several seafood dishes in addition to a raw bar with fresh shucked oysters.

Milagro Taco Cantina

This second iteration of the once-popular taqueria, Tacos Mariachi, just a stone’s throw away from the original, reprised much of the menu along with a whole new slate of ceviche tostadas and a shrimp burger that comes topped with chicharron crumbles and a jalapeño glaze. The standards include a filet of smoked salmon wrapped in […]

The Moon

Fort Worth’s The Moon bar has been the unofficial hub of Fort Worth’s music community for years. The sound system is big enough to fill a room 10 times its size, but the bar’s intimate feel is what keeps it abuzz during weekend performances from Fort Worth’s biggest local acts. That also might explain why […]

Mr. Max

Mr. Max himself, Hare Nakamura, died in 2013, but his namesake restaurant is still going strong in its third decade of business. A casual oasis of high-quality Japanese food in an Irving strip mall that also contains five hair salons, Mr. Max offers cold and hot appetizers, grilled seafood and irresistible fried snacks like takoyaki, […]

Off-Site Kitchen

Off-Site Kitchen moved to Trinity Groves recently, but don’t think for a second that the casual burger restaurant lost one drop of its greasy charm. The new location is just like the old location, just with a lot more tables, games to keep you occupied and a beer cooler that runs the entire length of […]