Luxe Beat Magazine OCTOBER 2014 | Page 14

Each guest room has an amazing view of the Sound from its room wide floorto-ceiling picture window. lessons every Thursday night at 7pm. Nelson believes that, “Dancing is the most fun you can have standing up.” A wildly popular country & western nightclub with a capacity of over 6,000 people, Billy Bob’s boasts 127,000 square feet for bootscootin’ fun, and has hosted legendary concert musicians like Willie Nelson, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Reba Mc Entire and Travis Tritt. It’s also home to a small indoor rodeo. Why ride a mechanical bull when you can witness the real thing? Best barbecue and beer in town All that boot scootin’ is bound to work up an appetite, so go where the locals chow down for some of the best barbecue in town. Within walking distance, Cooper’s Old Time BBQ is famous for smoking meat with a dry-rub. You will be surprised how meaty and succulent beef ribs are here – or for that matter, all the smoked meats. More cafeteria-style, the place isn’t fancy, so stay with it, since the ambiance is local cowboy. (I counted over 25 cowboys and cowgirls dining with hats). I ordered one beef rib after being told that they have a lot of meat, but I really didn’t believe the jargon. I ended up sharing half the rib with my son and ate a baked potato, coated with the dry-rub, that didn’t even need butter! Mosey on back to the heart of the historic stockyards (Exchange Ave.) for the best place in cow town to down some suds: White Elephant Saloon. Here, you’ll find a bevy of cowboy hats all over the walls, a weird collection of white elephants, and a great selection of beer, along with live music seven nights a week. Besides it being Fort Worth’s most historic saloon and dancehall, you just might also hear some chatter about it being the place of the “Last Great Gunfight in Fort Worth.”