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Eats beat: Fill 'er up with the best of Fort Worth at Empty Bowls benefit
Feb 14, 2012 (Fort Worth Star-Telegram - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
We have cookoffs and festivals of every flavor: steaks, barbecue, even peaches.
But Friday is the day for our only festival devoted to a winter favorite: soups.
The annual Empty Bowls celebration celebrates soups, stews, noodles and everything warm, with more than 30 restaurants dishing up their best at lunch Friday in the Amon G. Carter Jr. Exhibits Hall at the Will Rogers complex.
For $45, you get a keepsake art bowl and never-ending helpings of soups, stews and desserts. It's a benefit for the Tarrant Area Food Bank.
These are some of the best soups in town: lobster bisque from Truluck's, vodka-shrimp gazpacho from Bonnell's, Shinjuku Station's kabocha squash soup and Wild Mushroom Steak House's cream of jalapeno.
Chef Tim Love of Lonesome Dove Western Bistro sends his green pork chili of TV fame. And Bob's Steak & Chop House will serve a tenderloin chili con carne.
Among other familiar dishes will be the noodleless mushroom-corn ramen from Tokyo Cafe and tortilla soup from La Familia. Reata and Z's Cafe will bring to-be-determined specials.
Also on the menu: a Blue Bonnet Bakery 3-foot-tall cake, plus McKinley's Fine Bakery & Cafe cookies, Nothing Bundt Cakes mini-cakes and Paris Coffee Shop pies.
Tickets will be sold through Wednesday at www.tafb.org, or call 817-332-9177, ext. 110.
After a soup festival, it's time for dessert.
The largest dessert event in Tarrant County is the Sweethearts Dessert Fantasy, a cocktail party and festival Feb. 26 in the Fort Worth Club ballroom.
This year's Fantasy includes new addition Eddie V's Prime Seafood, serving miniature versions of its bananas Foster.
Other restaurants serving special sweets include Bistro Louise catering, Bonnell's, Cafe Modern, Ellerbe Fine Foods and Lanny's Alta Cocina Mexicana, plus prime steakhouses such as Bob's, Del Frisco's and Silver Fox.
Fantasy tickets cost $40. For $150, donors get reserved seating and a reception; 817-255-2616, www.lenapopehome.org.
More later on this, but Hard Eight BBQ is open in Roanoke.
The Hill Country-style barbecue restaurant serves a choice of eight meats plus grilled rib-eye steaks, sides and salads. It's open weekdays and Saturdays for lunch and dinner, Sundays until 6 p.m.; 201 S. Oak St., 817-837-8888, hardeightbbq.com.
Bud Kennedy's Eats Beat appears Wednesdays in Life & Arts and Fridays in DFW.com Weekend. 817-390-7538
Facebook: Bud Kennedy's Eats Beat
Twitter: @eatsbeat
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