Relaxed stop offering creative, locally sourced Tex-Mex favorites, plus signature cocktails & beers.
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Address: 4400 White Settlement Rd, Fort Worth, TX 76114
Phone: (817) 570-0537
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Thurber Mingus, home of one of Fort Worth’s best burgers, closes
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Reviews
Andrew Harris
I have never been to Thurber Bingus. But its aura is undeniable. I hope someday to make pilgrimage to Thurber Bingus so I may partake in its bountiful blessings of burgers. The image of Thurber Bingus came to me in a dream. I was commanded by the force ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi to travel to this sacred establishment and order its delectable and scrumptious delights. Also Obama was there.
… moreKristi Johnson
I had the burger with caramelized 1015’s and blue cheese and my lunch companion had the goat cheese and bacon jam one. We gave each other slices of our respective burgers so we could both try both. Both were excellent. The herb dressed fries were really good too. Frankly I could have done without the whole spiel about the local sourcing but, it was good to learn about their farmers’ market they have there every other Saturday if the weather is good. Looking forward to going back.
… moreShawna Gutierrez
This was a great dining experience for my husband and I. We sat out on the back porch area it has nice lighting and the atmosphere was awesome! We loved the dobbleganger drink! We both had to try the Goat Cheese and Bacon Jam Burger & it was by far the absolute best burger I have ever tasted! Whoever came up with that combination was a genius! The only thing is that they are a bit pricey but it is so worth every dollar! WE WILL BE BACK!!
… moreMike Morgan
Just had lunch here with a colleague, and ordered a regular cheese burger with a fried egg. It was honestly one of the best burgers I’ve had in Fort Worth. This was also the most plain jane burger on their lunch menu. If you like culinary adventure and hamburgers this is with out a doubt a place you should check out. Their starter menu and drinks menu is also something worth checking out. The restaurant is clean, with plenty of space and good light. They claim to represent West Texas culture and cuisine, and as a native West Texas I appreciate the attempt. We plan on visiting again for dinner and happy hour and I’m really looking forward to taking my wife. Great place!
… moreRoycester E.
It’s like they can’t decide who they are yet – and are trying a little too hard. The menus have no prices, because: “Market Prices” for tacos? Come on.
Specializing in craft beer, but waitress knew little to nothing about them, so I ordered tea. Got some strange mixture of flavored something I couldn’t drink, but $3 nonetheless.
The world’s greatest sauces and offbeat concoctions served in styrofoam. It’s an upscale taco house.
Can’t imagine I’ll be back. They would make a great middle of the road meeting place that would attract a nice crowd and keep them coming back, but I think they want to be important instead.
… moreSpecializing in craft beer, but waitress knew little to nothing about them, so I ordered tea. Got some strange mixture of flavored something I couldn’t drink, but $3 nonetheless.
The world’s greatest sauces and offbeat concoctions served in styrofoam. It’s an upscale taco house.
Can’t imagine I’ll be back. They would make a great middle of the road meeting place that would attract a nice crowd and keep them coming back, but I think they want to be important instead.
Cynthia Ayala
Love this place! Great food, the environment is great! They are the only place so far that I have found that only uses every thing from Texas in the Fort Worth area. Every Tuesday night they have movie night it is great to bring the kids and just let them hang out while you can talk to you mr friends. Also love how they have live bands every Friday and Saturday night. The burgers and tacos are the best I have had I love how the chef makes the food so balanced and delicious. I highly recommend this place to eat.
… moreJoey Parnell
I love the whole ambiance of it its beautiful in it’s simplicity its very rustic in my opinion, Very creative, And the food was amazing with its original Ideas. I was quite fascinating how they used all Texas ingredients it really promotes local business, and its zesty spices were perfectly distributed to make a perfect taste. This place is really the perfect place for first dates and family events or just a weekend hang out with friends.Also the concept of A west Texas Cantina Was a very fresh and new idea.
… moreCase Martinec
We really wanted to love Thurber Mingus because it’s right down the road and the outside area is great but we’ve been disappointed every time after trying it three times. Seems like they only have a few on staff with enough experience to get things done. Drinks are watered down, they’re always out of something (Who runs out of bacon?) and yet don’t mark it on the chalkboard menu above where you order, etc. We ordered guacamole, 6 tacos, a burger and 4 drinks. They brought the tacos (which were soggy and nearly cold) about 30 minutes before the burger and, when we asked why, the answer was, “burgers take longer to make than tacos.” Maybe don’t make the tacos until the burger is almost ready? There are just too many other burger and taco joints close by with better food and better service for us to go back.
… morePtah “Makto” Baphomet
Want a burger not your standard fare?
You,owe it to yourself to find this little gem.
The goat cheese and bacon jam burger is delightful.
The herb fries are awesome if you like a little vinegar with seasonings.
The queso has a wonderful flavor but a bit on the thin side..will be venturing here again
… moreYou,owe it to yourself to find this little gem.
The goat cheese and bacon jam burger is delightful.
The herb fries are awesome if you like a little vinegar with seasonings.
The queso has a wonderful flavor but a bit on the thin side..will be venturing here again
Keith M
Tl;dr: It’s worth a shot with some items living up to the hype and others prepared wrong or with shortcuts – and the beer is a rip.
I like trend-bucking upstarts like this place. Ultimately I think Thurber Mingus is doomed for lack of attention to detail.
Not rustic but more uber-minimalist. Repurposed pallet tables, gray-painted cinderblock walls, black burlap curtains, menus of black ink on two-sided and laminated 8.5” x 11” paper. On which is conspicuously absent any part of their story or detail about where they are sourcing their Texas fare.
That last may be problematic. Much is made by ownership about their “drive towards the best ingredients and products sourced from the state”. Unfortunately they tell us nothing more.
We had two appetizers and all chose something different for entrees. The border taco app is pretty tasty.
The burgers don’t have cutesy names – which is undoubtedly a good thing. It does make ordering more awkward because you either point to the menu or say what is listed (the entire list of ingredients).
Dinner:
• One of us strayed from the burgers and went with the Mex of the Ameri-Mex portion of the menu: Chicken and Smoked Chili Quesadilla. She said it was mighty tasty but didn’t blow her away.
• One went with the intriguingly named Pork & Pork…a boat of “House Fries topped with Pulled Pork, Bacon, Queso Blanco, Crema, and Cilantro”. The chef “forgot” the pulled pork. I shouldn’t have to point out that this is arguably THE key ingredient in a menu item with that name. How does a chef forget this?
• As something of a connoisseur, I came for the highly-touted burgers I’d heard so much about. It being August and on the end of peach season I ordered the Grilled Texas Peaches, Bacon, Goat Cheese and Spinach Burger. I figured this baby would come with a grilled half of a juicy Parker County peach on top of a grass-fed patty from a Texas steer with house-made bacon and Winter Garden spinach. I don’t know if the peaches were from around Weatherford but I can tell you it was just a few slivers in there. Glued to the top of the bun (perfect burger buns) by some crema (not in the description) was the spinach. I think what was supposed to pass for goat cheese may have been mixed in that crema, but the pieces were pretty small and had none of the tang of goat cheese. Perhaps it was the Oaxaca. I think they bacon may actually be made in-house because it was excellent. I also ordered the fries.
Fries are a big sticking point with me. Especially when they are advertised as house cut. For $3+ they had better be. These clearly were pre-frozen foodservice fries. An unforgivable sin in the culinary world. For $3+.
Yes, about that tap wall. The place, Texas-themed as it is (purportedly named after the I-20 exit to the towns of Thurber and Mingus between Weatherford and Ranger) serves only Texas brews. This is excellent. The website suggests the beers are $3 a pint. Even better. But all is not well on the wall.
Two taps have no handles, two of them are cider (?), one is an undrinkable Lakeview beer, one was connected to an empty keg leaving a). Revolver Sidewinder Pale Ale, b). Rahr’s Blonde and c). Pedernales’ Robert Earl Keen Honey Pils as the “choices”. But for $3 as the website says, why not have a REK?
Except it was $7.
Yeah, that’s right. For that kind of money The Bobby Earl himself had better be out on the patio picking some of his songs. Them’s some major huevos, hombre.
Bottom line: burgers are good, not great but plenty pricey. I will be back. I will order the fries and they had better be fresh cut or they are going back. And what goes back will come off the check. And I won’t be having a beer.
My hopes are not high, though, that it will even be there the next time. Inconsistency, halfassery, lack of attention to detail and general quality issues may doom this place. And that would be a real shame. Because while the world is getting the passable Thurber Mingus — it absolutely needs the good Thurber Mingus.
… moreI like trend-bucking upstarts like this place. Ultimately I think Thurber Mingus is doomed for lack of attention to detail.
Not rustic but more uber-minimalist. Repurposed pallet tables, gray-painted cinderblock walls, black burlap curtains, menus of black ink on two-sided and laminated 8.5” x 11” paper. On which is conspicuously absent any part of their story or detail about where they are sourcing their Texas fare.
That last may be problematic. Much is made by ownership about their “drive towards the best ingredients and products sourced from the state”. Unfortunately they tell us nothing more.
We had two appetizers and all chose something different for entrees. The border taco app is pretty tasty.
The burgers don’t have cutesy names – which is undoubtedly a good thing. It does make ordering more awkward because you either point to the menu or say what is listed (the entire list of ingredients).
Dinner:
• One of us strayed from the burgers and went with the Mex of the Ameri-Mex portion of the menu: Chicken and Smoked Chili Quesadilla. She said it was mighty tasty but didn’t blow her away.
• One went with the intriguingly named Pork & Pork…a boat of “House Fries topped with Pulled Pork, Bacon, Queso Blanco, Crema, and Cilantro”. The chef “forgot” the pulled pork. I shouldn’t have to point out that this is arguably THE key ingredient in a menu item with that name. How does a chef forget this?
• As something of a connoisseur, I came for the highly-touted burgers I’d heard so much about. It being August and on the end of peach season I ordered the Grilled Texas Peaches, Bacon, Goat Cheese and Spinach Burger. I figured this baby would come with a grilled half of a juicy Parker County peach on top of a grass-fed patty from a Texas steer with house-made bacon and Winter Garden spinach. I don’t know if the peaches were from around Weatherford but I can tell you it was just a few slivers in there. Glued to the top of the bun (perfect burger buns) by some crema (not in the description) was the spinach. I think what was supposed to pass for goat cheese may have been mixed in that crema, but the pieces were pretty small and had none of the tang of goat cheese. Perhaps it was the Oaxaca. I think they bacon may actually be made in-house because it was excellent. I also ordered the fries.
Fries are a big sticking point with me. Especially when they are advertised as house cut. For $3+ they had better be. These clearly were pre-frozen foodservice fries. An unforgivable sin in the culinary world. For $3+.
Yes, about that tap wall. The place, Texas-themed as it is (purportedly named after the I-20 exit to the towns of Thurber and Mingus between Weatherford and Ranger) serves only Texas brews. This is excellent. The website suggests the beers are $3 a pint. Even better. But all is not well on the wall.
Two taps have no handles, two of them are cider (?), one is an undrinkable Lakeview beer, one was connected to an empty keg leaving a). Revolver Sidewinder Pale Ale, b). Rahr’s Blonde and c). Pedernales’ Robert Earl Keen Honey Pils as the “choices”. But for $3 as the website says, why not have a REK?
Except it was $7.
Yeah, that’s right. For that kind of money The Bobby Earl himself had better be out on the patio picking some of his songs. Them’s some major huevos, hombre.
Bottom line: burgers are good, not great but plenty pricey. I will be back. I will order the fries and they had better be fresh cut or they are going back. And what goes back will come off the check. And I won’t be having a beer.
My hopes are not high, though, that it will even be there the next time. Inconsistency, halfassery, lack of attention to detail and general quality issues may doom this place. And that would be a real shame. Because while the world is getting the passable Thurber Mingus — it absolutely needs the good Thurber Mingus.