{"id":258508,"date":"2026-04-20T22:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258508\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:25:13","slug":"michelin-taqueria-to-spin-off-seafood-spot-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258508\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin taqueria to spin off seafood spot in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A restaurant with heavy-hitting credentials is coming to Fort Worth: Called Mariscos Cortez<\/a>, it’s opening at 1151 Martin Luther King Jr Fwy., as a seafood-centric spinoff of Birrieria Y Taqueria Cortez, the family-owned restaurant which made the list<\/a> of restaurants that earned nods in the Texas Michelin guide.<\/p>\n

The restaurant will open walking distance from its sibling in a space that was originally<\/a> built to become a location of Huddle House, the breakfast-all-day chain.<\/p>\n

According to founder Rogelio Cortez, it’ll open “hopefully in time for summer.”<\/p>\n

The family shared the news an Instagram post<\/a> on April 15.<\/p>\n

“As y\u2019all may know, the Cortez family, we know how to cook,\u201d says Alejandro Soto, turning to gesture towards their Michelin award hanging on the front of Birrieria Y Taqueria. “For those of you who have been asking us, ‘When’s your next venture gonna be?’ I\u2019m here to tell you right now we are going to be opening a new sister restaurant, right across the street.”<\/p>\n

“It’s the same family, the same cooks, the same food you all love, but a whole new menu with different menu items \u2014 now we’re going to kick in to the seafood,” Soto says.<\/p>\n

Birrieria Y Taqueria Cortez started out in 2020 as a food truck that specialized in the hot-hot trend of birria<\/a>, the crispy, cheesy twist on a taco. According to<\/a> WFAA, founder Rogelio Cortez was a roofer who was sidelined by injury and began to sell food out of his mother\u2019s house before borrowing $15,000 from his father\u2019s 401K to buy a truck.<\/p>\n

They opened a brick and mortar a year later, at 2108 E Rosedale St. (Their original food truck still operates as a drive-thru window at 2220 E. Rosedale St.) Their fortunes rose in 2024 when they became one of only three Fort Worth eateries to earn a Michelin recommendation along with Panther City BBQ and Goldee\u2019s BBQ, which received a Bib Gourmand. (Smoke ‘N Ash in Arlington also garnered a recommendation.)<\/p>\n

Birriera’s menu is limited to birria and its variations such as tacos, flautas, and a birria pizza, and they plan to take the same limited approach at Mariscos Cortez, with a maximum of 10 items.<\/p>\n

While they have not reveailed a menu, they outline the differences in an Instagram post<\/a>, amusingly called “Mama Cortez vs. Papa Cortez.”<\/p>\n

“Y’all know that Mama Cortez got the birria flavor down, but a lot of you didn’t know that Papa Cortez used to be a cook his whole life, and his specialty, guess what it was \u2014 seafood,” they say. “Mariscos Cortez will bring old school, traditional, authentic flavors \u2014 a process that will assure freshness and flavor in our seafood!”<\/p>\n

They’ve already begun updates on the space, painting the interior a pretty marina-style aqua blue, and meanwhile they playfully pose a question:<\/p>\n

“Is Cortez turning East Rosedale into the hottest Food District?” their post asks.<\/p>\n