The Near Southside is Fort Worth’s most vegan-friendly part of town, and it’s not all due to Spiral Diner. We’ve looked at other favorites like Chadra Mezza and Junsuree Thai before, and it’s time for another Near Southside restaurant – King Tut, on Magnolia Avenue.

King Tut serves up a wide array of Middle Eastern dishes, and features a handful of vegan-friendly dishes. Our particular favorite is the vegetable shawarma, seen above in its lunch configuration. The shawarma features a selection of veggies with mushrooms, some delicious vegan-friendly rice, tahini, and toasty warm pita bread. It’s all very tasty, and always nicely prepared. The flavors of the shawarma veggies, rice, and tahini combine in wonderful ways. The lunch portions, shown above, are perfectly sized – filling, but not too heavy. Come back at dinner, and everything’s bigger – you’ll often have leftovers from King Tut’s dinner shawarma.

You’ll usually have a side salad to go along with things, featuring the house dressing. Make sure and inform them that you don’t want feta cheese, which comes on the salad by default. They’ll be happy to leave it off, and the salad’s quite tasty without cow product.

King Tut is located at the corner of Magnolia & Hurley, just down from Baylor All-Saints Medical Center and across from Ellerbe Fine Foods. They’re open for lunch during the week from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, and for dinner from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM. On Saturdays, they’re open for the dinner hours, 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM (King Tut’s closed on Sundays).