Pete Wann also contributed to this fine piece of internet bloggery.

• Can Wendy Davis Turn Fort Worth Blue? | The Texas Blue - “You can tell that [Brimer] is running scared,” Nieto said. “You can tell he’s seen the writing on the wall and he’s basically running for his political life.”
• Food and Fort Worth, Texas: More Restaurants: the Mid-Price Range “Indies” - A quick round up of the affordable independent restaurants in Fort Worth. “[T]he family owned and operated restaurants have moved aside to big business establishments[...]It is a market-driven reality, but, we have lost something”
• Two Fat Ladies: Way to Go Arlington! Fort Worth, What’s the Hold Up? - Eddie moved from Fort Worth to South Korean and he’s keeping a blog to document his adventures. Here he talks about life without plastic grocery bags, encouraging Fort Worth to follow Arlington’s lead.
• A Southern Missive–Fort Worth Reenactors - See what happens to Civil War re-enactors that try to get too friendly with the local saloon girls

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You know that bar and grill in every college movie? The place with the nice long bar, cheap beer, bar food, and close enough to campus that you could stumble back to the dorms after closing it down for the night?

That’s what Buffalo Brothers is like.

The difference here is that it’s not in a movie, it’s in Fort Worth, just down the street (easy stumbling distance) from TCU.

Buffalo Brothers is the result of a collaboration between John Bonnell (of, obviously, Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine), and Ed McOwen, chef de cuisine at Bonnell’s. It joins Grady Spears’ Dutch’s Burgers next door as the latest in the trend of local chef-celebs opening lower priced “everyday food” joints on University just north of Berry. (Yes, I’m aware that both have been open for a while, but I like to get to know a place before I write about it.)
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Welcome to Gastrognome, our recurring dining feature that aims to highlight the unique and varied dining landscape in Fort Worth. We’ve all got our own weird dietary quirks, so this will make for some good reading in the coming posts.

We’ll start this feature with a review of a seafood restaurant in Sundance Square, but just because our first restaurant has a couple $$ in the summary doesn’t mean we’ll always be dining with rich folks, drinking coffee and smoking big cigars. You get to read about the places we like. We aren’t food critics; we are folks that don’t mind spending our hard earned scratch on some good food.

So what’s with the name, Gastrognome? I don’t know, man…We have a weird sense of humour and as soon as I can cook up the graphic, it will make a lot more sense.

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Daddy Jack’s New England Lobster and Chowder House
American Seafood/817-332-2477/353 Throckmorton @ 3rd/$$$/ Reservations seem like a good idea
http://www.daddyjacks.org/

I dunno…I guess it was the understated exterior or the juxtaposition of red gingham tablecloth and fine tableware, but I wasn’t sure what to expect from Daddy Jack’s, a New England-ey seafood restaurant near Sundance Square in Downtown Fort Worth.

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