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If you love steak , Fort Worth is for you. Meat here is hefty, fresh and prepared with tender loving care, especially in the Stockyards area, where the many good home-cooking cafés are frequented as much by cattle ranchers as by visitors. Mex and Tex-Mex tastes are well covered though vegetarians will do less well; try the upmarket restaurants downtown. The café in the Kimbell Art Museum makes for a pleasant place to snack or eat lunch.

Angelo's Barbecue 2533 White Settlement Rd tel 817/332-0357. Venerable westside restaurant open for lunch and dinner and cited by locals as the best in the city.

Angeluna 215 E 4th St tel 817/334-0080. Tasty Caribbean-Asian-Southern fusion food across the street from Bass Hall.

Cattlemen's Steak House 2458 N Main St tel 817/624-3945. Dim lighting and wall-sized portraits of prize steers. A Fort Worth institution thanks to its steaks and margaritas. Dinner is around $20.

J & J Oyster Bar 612 N University Drive tel 817/335-2756. Try the fresh crab and oysters at this local institution near the Cultural District.

Joe T Garcia's Mexican Dishes 2201 N Commerce St tel 817/626-4356. Nationally famed Mexican restaurant in the owners' 1930s home, serving hefty set tortilla/fajita dinners (around $10) and frosty margaritas. Outdoor seating available next to the family swimming pool.

Mi Cocina 509 Main St tel 817/877-3600. Healthy Tex-Mex dishes in a modern, eclectically decorated joint.

Star Café 111 W Exchange Ave tel 817/624-8701. Neon-lit café serving some of the least expensive steaks - not just in the Stockyards but in the entire city. They also know how to chicken-fry steak well.