15 essential Fort Worth spots, the Stockyards to the Kimbell. This free City Pack from Whosly collects our favorite Fort Worth spots — restaurants, museums, and things to do — each one mapped and ready to turn into a plan. Save the ones you love, then text a link and see who's in.
The classics, for a first visit or anyone you're showing around.
The Lancarte family has run this Northside Tex-Mex compound since 1935. The dinner menu is short, enchiladas or fajitas served family-style, and the draw is the sprawling garden patio; bring cash and expect a wait.
The Stockyards steakhouse that has grilled over charcoal since 1947, bought and remodeled by Taylor Sheridan, who now supplies the beef from his own Four Sixes; there's live music on the new patio. CultureMap named it the city's best restaurant of 2026.
Five young pitmasters' barbecue joint on the far south side, No. 3 on Texas Monthly's 2025 list and Fort Worth's first Michelin star. It opens Thursday to Sunday at 11 and runs until the meat sells out; people line up hours early.
Travis and Emma Heim's barbecue began as a food truck and settled on Magnolia Avenue in 2016; it's where they first served bacon burnt ends. Order those and the brisket.
A Near Southside joint on Texas Monthly's 2025 Top 50 and Michelin's list, known for Southside twists like elote topped with brisket and jalapeño poppers wrapped in pork belly.
Fort Worth's big Texas ranch kitchen, back on the top floors of The Tower downtown, its original 1996 home, after more than two decades away. The tenderloin tamales are the signature; open for lunch and dinner.
Chef Marcus Paslay's scratch kitchen, open since 2013 and a 2026 CultureMap nominee for Restaurant of the Year, with a seasonal menu that might include grilled bone marrow. Happy hour runs Tuesday to Friday, 5 to 6.
It started as a food truck in West 7th and is now a Cultural District taquería, with brisket, pork and fish tacos and a house margarita it calls the best in Texas.
Louis Kahn's vaulted museum, washed in silvery daylight, holds a small, superb collection from antiquity to Picasso, including Michelangelo's earliest known painting. The permanent collection is free; Renzo Piano's pavilion across the lawn hosts the special shows.
Tadao Ando's concrete-and-glass galleries seem to float on a reflecting pond, with a collection that runs from Rothko and Warhol to new work. Have lunch at Café Modern overlooking the water.
A free museum of American art in Philip Johnson's building on the hill, strong on Frederic Remington and Charles Russell's Western scenes, with Georgia O'Keeffe and a major photography collection too.
A hands-on museum in the Cultural District with dinosaur halls, a children's museum, the Noble Planetarium and the Omni Theater dome. Open Tuesday to Sunday.
The old cattle-market district on the North Side, now a National Historic District of Western shops, honky-tonks and saloons. Longhorns are driven down Exchange Avenue twice daily, late morning and late afternoon, free to watch; come back on a Friday or Saturday night for the rodeo.
Downtown's heart, some 35 blocks of restaurants, bars and shops around a plaza with fountains, where live music plays Wednesday to Sunday evenings. The Bass opera house is around the corner.
Opened in 1909 with a handful of species, the zoo in Forest Park now cares for some 7,000 animals. Don't miss Texas Wild!, a walk through the state's landscapes and wildlife.
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