It took five years, but the most beautiful rooftop in Fort Worth is fully open.
The 17th-floor restaurant on top of the Sinclair, Autograph Collection hotel is now open as Nikuya Rooftop, a sushi restaurant from the same local restaurateurs behind the first-rate Wicked Butcher steakhouse.
“We always wanted to do something up there,” executive Nafees Alam said. But the original plan for an open-air rooftop bar proved too open-air in Texas weather.
Nikuya added the perfect touch: a 16-seat, weather-controlled counter serving sushi, nigiri, sashimi and crudo with a variety of craft cocktails and sake.
The “Cowboy Kiss” sushi roll with salmon, fried salmon skin, fish sauce caramel and yuzu at Nikuya Rooftop in Fort Worth, Texas.
It’s what downtown has needed: a spectacular sushi restaurant for dinner and cocktails.
Nikuya, formerly RTB (Roof Top Bar), added the glassed-in sushi bar because “the weather was always crazy — it was either too hot, too cold or too windy,” Alam said.
“We want a restaurant that can be open the whole time. No matter the weather, you can dine year-round.”
The surrounding rooftop seating will be open when weather permits, he said.
A nigiti platter at Nikuya Sushi in Fort Worth.
RTB has been closed nearly a year for the Nikuya makeover.
“A sushi restaurant seemed to be something downtown needed,” Alam said.
The chefs from Wicked Butcher came up with a menu with a variety of items featuring a “Nikuya Cut” wagyu beef roll with avocado and fried leek, or a brave “Trinity River” tuna roll with shiso, cucumber, soy, jalapeño, avocado and tomato.
The enclosed all-weather Nikuya Rooftop sushi bar at the Sinclair hotel in Fort Worth, seen Oct. 31, 2025.
Appetizers include oysters, salmon or scallop crudo, and tuna tartare with Fresno chiles.
Alam said his favorite rooftop view is toward Sundance Square or northeast toward the Trinity River. But there’s an open view on three of the four sides.
Nikuya opens at 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, and stays open until midnight Fridays and Saturdays. Reserve on resy.com; 817-697-7777, nikuyarooftop.com.
The view from an outdoor table at Nikuya Rooftop sushi bar atop the Sinclair hotel in downtown Fort Worth, seen Oct. 31, 2025.
The view from the rooftop restaurant and bar in the Sinclair Hotel.