Sports bars near TCU in Fort Worth ready for championship game watch parties
Two notes about Monday night:
Yes, there are places to watch the TCU-Georgia game.
And if you’re not watching, it’s a great night to get a table in crowded restaurants.
TCU’s two most famous sports bar-and-grills lead the list of fan favorites:
▪ Buffalo Bros, ranked among the nation’s “Best College Football Bars” by a national foodie website, actually hosted a tailgate party at the Fiesta Bowl in Phoenix.
It’ll host celebrations Monday in Fort Worth and if plans work out, in Los Angeles.
Both Buffalo Bros pizza-wings-and-subs restaurants and their cousin burger cafe, Jon’s Grille, will serve purple milkshakes and beers and “Hypnotoad” margaritas.
Every Monday is half-price pizza night.
In Phoenix, Buffalo Bros served wings and fries at a special “Taste of Home” concession stand in the concourse.
Buffalo Bros is open for lunch, dinner and late-night dining until 2 a.m. every night; 3015 S. University Drive, 817-386-9601, or 415 Throckmorton St., 817-887-9533, buffalobrostexas.com.
▪ Next door on South University Drive, Dutch’s Hamburgers and Dutch’s Burrito Bar are legacy restaurants filled with Horned Frogs memorabilia.
It’s all a tribute to 1930s national championship TCU coach Dutch Meyer, a Hall of Famer known for telling teams to “fight ‘em till hell freezes over, then fight ‘em on the ice.”
Dutch’s, a former Texas Monthly top-50 pick for burgers, has added an adjacent bar, a rooftop terrace and a burrito stand since chef Lou Lambert and partners opened it in 2007.
fans come back for Dutch’s half-pound burgers, green chile burritos or first-rate “Frog Dogs” and Frito pie with serious Texas chili.
The prize-winning original burgers remain on the menu, such as a bacon-blue-cheeseburger with chipotle mayo or the “Vaquero” bacon-cheddar burger with fried onion-and-jalapeno strings and barbecue sauce.
Dutch’s is open for lunch and dinner daily; 3009 S. University Drive, 817-927-5522, dutchshamburgers.com.
▪ Another choice: Heim Barbecue, which served hundreds of burritos at an AT&T Stadium tailgate party in Arlington before the Big 12 Conference championship game.
Heim is open Mondays and every day from 9 a.m. through dinner at its Southside location, 1109 W. Magnolia Ave, 817-882-6970, and also at a Dallas location, 3130 W. Mockingbird Lane, 469-397-4346; heimbbq.com.
Official alumni parties
▪ The official TCU game-watching party is usually at a Fort Worth location of the Buffalo Wild Wings chain, 629 Stayton St.
▪ The Georgia alumni party is usually at Reservoir Bar, Patio & Kitchen, 1001 Foch St.
In Los Angeles
The championship game dining scene in Los Angeles will revolve around the Taste of the Championship, a $300 food and wine tasting event featuring California chefs.
The event is at 4 p.m. Sunday at Hudson Loft, 1200 S. Hope St., near the sports arenas.
Tickets were still available early this week at cfp-foundation.org/champtaste.
