FORT WORTH
Two months into its first year, the Dos Mares coastal Mexican seafood restaurant has floated to the top of Fort Worth’s fine-dining restaurants.
If any restaurant compares with the London-style Chumley House prime steakhouse or the award-winning Don Artemio, it would be Dos Mares, 3260 W. Seventh St. in Museum Place.
Chef Rodrigo Cárdenas and his team scoured coastal restaurants from the Pacific to the Gulf for lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch menus featuring everything from sea bass tempura fish tacos and a variety of ceviches to lobster, snapper and shrimp.
The 30-hour homestyle flan at Dos Mares is topped with macadamia brittle; seen Feb. 8, 2026. Bud Kennedy bud@star-telegram.com
A sea bass Veracruz the other night was served with a just-right tomato-olive-bell pepper sauce atop garlic rice. On this night, Dos Mares (”Two Seas”) offered wood-grilled shrimp on top.
For an option, the sea bass is also offered in a creamy chipotle sauce.
The menu highlights include a wood-grilled snapper adobo for a couple to share, lobster adobo or a 2-pound prime charcoal-cooked porterhouse.
The entryway and dining room at Dos Mares restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas, seen Feb. 8, 2026. Bud Kennedy bud@star-telegram.com
The evening ends with an eye-catching “30-hour” flan the size of a grapefruit, ostensibly for the table to share but easily consumed without further guilt.
Before you drop $50-$70 on a dinner entree, visit at lunch or Sunday brunch and take a look around.
The daily and Saturday lunch menu offers striped bass or shrimp in garlic sauce, duck carnitas enchiladas, a charcoaled prime-ribeye burger or quesadillas filled with octopus and shrimp (or squash).
Dos Mares restaurant is new in Museum Place, seen Oct. 21, 2025 on West Seventh Street in Fort Worth, Texas. Courtesy of Dos Mares
There’s a daily lunch special for $18-$19, or fried striped bass with pico and chili-mayo on Fridays for $24.
Dos Mares, dark and enticing at night, is completely different and sunny by day.
The Sunday brunch menu (about $20-$25) includes pancakes with dates, lobster tacos with pico and chili-mayo, or special chilaquiles with morita chiles and steak or chicken.
An achiote steak-and-eggs breakfast is $39.
Pancakes with dates at Dos Mares restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas, seen Feb. 8, 2026. Bud Kennedy bud@star-telegram.com
If you’re not familiar with Cárdenas, he and his father, celebrated Saltillo chef Juan Ramón Cárdenas, opened Don Artemio, the first Fort Worth restaurant to make the James Beard Award national finals.
Don Artemio has recently updated its own menu of steaks, cabrito and seafood.
Dos Mares has tables available for dinner Feb. 13 or Feb 15, or for lunch before 3 p.m. Feb. 13-14 and brunch Feb. 15. Book on resy.com; 682-480-2143, dosmares.us.
Don Artemio has only a few tables available for dinner all weekend. It’s at 3268 W. Seventh St., 817-470-1439, donartemio.us.
Lobster, sea bass, snapper and shrimp are among the choices along with steaks at Dos Mares seafood restaurant in Fort Worth. JO Agency Courtesy of Dos Mares
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Bud Kennedy is celebrating his 40th year writing about restaurants in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He has written the “Eats Beat” dining column in print since 1985 and online since 1992 — that’s more than 3,000 columns about Texas cafes, barbecue, burgers and where to eat.
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