Cabela's Mesquite Grill

• Hours: Sun 9pm-8pm, Tue-Sat 9am-8pm
• Attire: Casual
• Features: Banquet Facilities, Wheelchair Accessible, Kid Friendly

Description

First, we watched the 1 p.m. "aquarium feeding." Not exactly what I expected. Dozens of live goldfish were dumped in a huge fish tank, and I watched transfixed and just a little horrified as native Texas fish snapped them up whole in a literal feeding frenzy. A couple goldfish managed to elude the crappies, gar, turtles and catfish for a few additional seconds, and I was silently cheering them on. But they all ended up in someone's gullet. Mmm. Makes me hungry. How about you? Actually, the restaurant inside Cabela's--the gargantuan, theme-parkish store for outdoorsmen north of Fort Worth--is worth a stop, if you can get the sight of a wriggling goldfish in a gar's long beak out of your mind. The Mesquite Grill, on the store's upper level, features pretty good wild game deli sandwiches (boar, ostrich, elk, bison) and grilled offerings such as venison and bison bratwurst (tasty and spicy). For the less adventurous, there are hamburgers, hot dogs and pizza by the slice. Best thing we tried, though, was the chili--mild and full-flavored, with lots of lean ground beef. Some of the best chili we've had in these parts.