It’s Hispanic Heritage Month and Fort Worth, Texas is celebrating the community’s Latinx food, art and culture this September 15 through October 15.

Visit Fort Worth, the Texas city’s convention and tourism bureau, is partnering with Artes de la Rosa, the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and several Fort Worth attractions to honor the city’s rich Hispanic culture with over 30 events.
Highlights include:

• The Fort Worth Herd, the educational tourism program that preserves the city’s Western history, will host a special event in the Stockyards District called Mexico en La Sangre on September 18, honoring the Mexican vaqueros and Indigenous cowboys who played a pivotal role in the Cattle Drive Era. The Stockyards’ historic brick streets will come alive with Mexican equestrian traditions, including charrería and caballos bailadores, as well as live music and a lively parade.

  

• Don Artemio, a spinoff of the acclaimed upscale restaurant in Saltillo, Mexico, is presenting its very own Festival del Chile en Nogada. The new restaurant will feature the special traditional Mexican dish, made of poblano chiles stuffed with picadillo topped with a walnut-based cream sauce called nogada, pomegranate seeds and parsley, on its menu all month long.
• On September 9-11, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is hosting a screening of The Good Boss, which features Javier Bardem and tells the story of Básculas Blanco, a company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town.
• Mexico’s Independence Day will be celebrated on September 18 at the Fiestas Patrias, held at La Gran Plaza de Fort Worth. Expecting more than 45,000 people to attend, the festival will display artistic and cultural activities, like folkloric groups and mariachi performances, as well as live entertainment, including the traditional “El Grito.”
• The Kimbell Art Museum is presenting a workshop with guest artist, Karla Garcia, to celebrate the ancient histories and stories inspired by the Mayan ceramic tradition.

  

• Taco Heads is a quirky taqueria operating from a food truck inspired by owner Sarah Castillo’s family recipes, and quickly cultivated a cult following in Fort Worth. The Latinx restauranteur also opened Sidesaddle Saloon, a craft cocktail bar inspired by legendary cowgirls located in Mule Alley (the recently revitalized horse and mule barns in Fort Worth’s Western-inspired historic Stockyards District), and Tinies, an elevated Tex-Mex experience named after her mother in Fort Worth’s burgeoning South Main district.

  

• Victor and Misty Villarreal opened La Onda in June 2021, which features an eclectic menu of fresh seafood dishes and a beverage program that focuses on local distilleries and ingredients, as well as traditional Latin spirits. The restaurant was also recently recognized on Bon Appétit’s 50 best restaurants in 2022.

  

• Opened in 1935, Joe T. Garcia’s is a staple family-run Tex-Mex restaurant in the heart of Fort Worth’s historic Stockyards District featuring an oversized outdoor patio that feels like a garden oasis and the strongest margaritas in town – guests are even limited to ordering only two.