Tickets for “Twenty at the Tower”, the summer pop-up benefitting the Fort Worth Food Fort Worth Food & Wine Festival are now on sale.  FWFWF will host chefs to cook intimate dinners for fifty diners each night at the pop-up restaurant event. Tickets are $75 including tax, valet, and ticketing fees. Gratuity will not be included. A different chef will prepare a multicourse menu each night. Drinks are BYOB.  Reata Restaurant’s very own Juan Rodriguez is participating, but we can’t tell you when. It’s a secret.  Shhhhhh.

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The First Tee of Fort Worth is a youth development organization whose Life Skills Curriculum is a scientifically proven means of helping children learn the inherent values present in golf and how those values also translate to real life and real world application. Through their partnership with The Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, The First Tee of Fort Worth is also able to provide their participants with an “inside the ropes” experience via The First Tee Caddie Days on Monday and Wednesday, managing the short game area all week, and various other opportunities.

In an effort to highlight local musical talent, Fort Worth’s amazing Sundance Square, and to further the experience of their patrons, The Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial is hosting a benefit concert for The First Tee of Fort Worth on Wednesday, May 22nd. The Josh Weathers Band will take the stage at 7:30 PM and fans are invited to enjoy food from Reata Restaurant and cold Michelob Ultra from Frankie’s Bar between 5:30 and 8:30 in the VIP Area.

VIP Tickets are available for $40 each and can be purchased on-line www.thefirstteeftworth.org or at the gate.

Lunch Additions

Fried Chicken Mondays

We broast an airline chicken breast in a pressurized fryer in order to keep the chicken moist.  You won’t be disappointed.  This is served with our weekly grits and seasonal vegetables.

Carnitas Street Tacos with Mango Salsa

Three yellow corn tortillas filled with pork and topped with mango salsa and fried onion strings.  Yum

Bacon & Egg Field Green Salad

Mixed field greens topped with dried cranberries, cherry tomatoes, manchego cheese, sugar bacon and a sunny side up egg.  
Topped with a honey mustard bacon dressing.

Dinner Additions

Pork Shank with Chorizo Black-Eyed Hash

16 oz Bone-in pork shank cooked until it’s fork tender served on a bed of black eye pea and chorizo hash.  As original as Reata.

Reata will be participating in Restaurant Week August 13^th through the 19^th, 2012.  Enjoy a fabulous three-course dinner for just $35 per person. For each prix fixe dinner purchased, Reata will make a $7 donation to Lena Pope Home to benefit children and families in need.  To see Reata’s Restaurant Week menu selections click here.  Please call (817) 336-1009 to make reservations.

On Thursday May 17^th, at 7pm Reata will be hosting Alaskan Brewing Company’s Beer Pairing Dinner.  The price is $50 per person, before tax and gratuity and the dinner is limited to 60 people.  Call or e-mail Anna to make a reservation at (817) 336-0500 ext 23 or anco@reata.net.

 Starter

Jalapeño and Bacon Crusted Scallop with Citrus Salad

Salad

Spring Greens, Fried Blue Cheese Crouton and Oranges
With Raspberry-Champagne Vinaigrette

 Mains

Amber Braised Boneless Short Ribs
Served with White Cheddar Grits & Fried Shallots Watercress Salad

 Afters

Molten Chocolate Cake with Drunken Berries and Vanilla Cream

Reata will once again be serving Tenderloin Tamales, Chicken Tacos, Apple Crisp and Cowboy Iced Tea at Fort Worth’s Main Street Arts Festival.  Come out and see the Reata crew across from the Sundance Square Stage, located at F2 on the MAIN STREET MAP.  For more information on the Arts Festival go to www.mainstreetartsfest.org.

On October 18^th join Reata Chef Juan Rodriguez for a cooking class at Central Market in Fort Worth.  Juan will be demonstrating how to make Coastal Crab Cakes with an Avocado Cream Tartar Sauce, Pan-seared, Pepper-crusted Tenderloin with a Port Wine Sauce (Attendees will make the Sauce.) and West Texas Pecan Pie.  To sign up for the class visit the Central Market website by clicking here.

Savor a tasty three-course prix fixe meals at Reata Restaurant located in Sundance Square, Downtown Fort Worth.  Priced at only $35/person (tax, tip and drinks billed separately) this will be a great way to experience Reata for the first time or to return to an old favorite.  Reservations are required.  Founded by KRLD Radio, the 13th annual promo benefits Lena Pope Home in Fort Worth ($7 of each meal goes to the charity).  Click Here to view Reata’s menu for Restaurant Week.

Kinsey McClure has been named the new general manager of the Reata in Alpine, TX according to Mike Micallef, president of Reata Restaurants.

McClure has worked at Reata in Sundance Square, downtown Fort Worth for a little over three years. Her earlier restaurant experience includes the Conference Café, Crickets Grill and Draft House and as assistant general manager at the Café Italia in Dallas.

McClure graduated from Texas Tech University in 2002 with a B.A. in public relations.

Reata know for it Texas cuisine provides guests with a unique dining experience in both Fort Worth and Alpine, Texas. Favorite dishes include Tenderloin Tamales, Blackened Buffalo Ribeye and Chicken Fried Steak.

D Magazine has a nice article reminding their readers to stop by Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth and grab a bite at Reata before heading over to Crown Plaza Invitational at Colonial.