The Best Restaurants in Forney, Texas

Eno's opened in the Bishop Arts District in 2008 and brought its second kitchen to downtown Forney in July 2017, into about 3,600 square feet on South Bois d'Arc. The format is the same one that built the original: thin crust pizza, farm fresh salads and a long craft beer list, in a room that does not feel like a suburban strip center.

The Forney location is also the only one of the three Eno's restaurants with its own brunch menu, which is the single best argument for driving out here on a Sunday instead of into Oak Cliff. The Forney Economic Development Corporation named it Business of the Month in March 2026, which is as close as a town this size gets to a civic endorsement.

Patrick and Monica McCrea opened Doe Belly's in Forney in 2009 and ran it long enough to earn a second location, which landed in Seagoville in January 2025. The menu is Cajun and Creole done without decoration: gumbo, etouffee, jambalaya, fried and grilled fish and shrimp, and the po boys that CultureMap singled out alongside the fried catfish when it covered the expansion.

This is the longest running independent kitchen on this list and the one most clearly rooted in Forney rather than imported into it. Note the four day week. It is closed Monday and Tuesday, and Sunday service stops at 3pm.

Forney Brewing opened at 203 E Main Street on June 14, 2025, after the Forney Economic Development Corporation announced it as a brewery and kitchen concept new to Kaufman County. The brewing equipment sits behind a glass wall from the dining room, which is the whole design idea, and the EDC named it Business of the Month that September.

The house list on its own site runs eight beers with ABV and IBU published for each, from a 4.6 percent American light lager to a 6.8 percent hazy IPA, with a Mexican style lager, a hefeweizen, a Czech style lager, an amber, a hoppy brown and a juicy IPA in between. The kitchen is not an afterthought: smash burgers, a fried chicken sandwich, wings, Bavarian pretzels, four pizzas including one called the Forney Hot, and sticky toffee pudding.

A small counter service room that pairs comfort food with a lending shelf and community events, which sounds like a gimmick until you order. InForney's Forney Foodie column, written by Jennifer Jacobs, reviewed it on May 3, 2025 and gave the burger 4.5 out of 5, calling it flat out delicious on a toasted brioche bun and a bargain at $13 with a bottled drink. Her overall score was 4 out of 5, with the small dining room pulling atmosphere down to 3.

The burger arrives with kettle chips rather than fries. The rest of the menu runs to pulled pork street tacos, a Greek salad and a meat and cheese board. It keeps short hours, Wednesday through Saturday only, 11am to 7pm.

Southern comfort cooking done properly and at length, inside the Innovation Boulevard development locals call The OC. The menu is the real thing rather than a nod to it: oxtails, smothered chicken, fried chicken, pulled pork sandwiches, loaded potatoes, collard greens with ham hocks, candied yams and macaroni and cheese.

Finish with peach cobbler or the bread pudding with bourbon glaze. It has the widest opening hours of anything on this list, 9am to 10pm six days a week, and it takes reservations and private party bookings, which almost nothing else in Forney does.

A family run Mexican kitchen on Pinson Road that says on its own site that the recipes have been in the family for decades. The two dishes worth driving for are the birria quesadilla tacos and the stuffed avocado, which comes fried or grilled and is not something you find on most Tex-Mex menus in Kaufman County.

The rest reads like a well run neighbourhood restaurant rather than a concept: classic fajitas, a chicken fried steak dinner, burgers and seafood, with vegetarian options marked. Closed Sunday, which catches people out.

Open since 2004 and the most straightforwardly useful restaurant in Forney. Breakfast runs all day, which means pancakes, eggs and biscuits at 6pm if that is what you want, and the rest of the menu is home style American: sandwiches, burgers, steaks, soups and a fresh salad bar, with homemade pies at the end.

It opens at 7am Monday through Saturday, earlier than anything else here, and it is right on US 80 so it is the easy stop coming in or out of town. Sunday it closes at 2.30pm.

The Forney Foodie column in InForney reviewed Rio Lerma on May 13, 2025 and put it solidly among the good Mexican restaurants in town, scoring food 4, service 5, atmosphere 3 and 4 out of 5 overall. The specific praise went to the enchiladas con huevos with chipotle sauce and, unusually, to the rice and beans, which the reviewer called the standout of the meal.

It is a brunch option as well as a dinner one, and the lot was already filling at 11.15 on a weekday morning when that review ran. Hours differ between listings, so call rather than trusting a directory. There is a separate Rio Lerma in Terrell, 12 miles east, so check the address when you search.

The only hibachi table in Forney, and the reason it is on this list rather than left off as a novelty is the sushi. The Forney Foodie review on April 23, 2025 scored it 4 out of 5 across food, service and atmosphere, praised the tuna roll as genuinely fresh, and found the prices fair for the portions and the show.

The hibachi comes with the full routine, onion volcano, flaming sake bottle and the bouncing egg. Order the steak and shrimp rather than the chicken, which that review found dry. The room gets loud when there are birthdays in, which there usually are.