While owner Gloria Rubio is Salvadoran, she certainly knows she’s in the Lone Star State and knows that most of us have a special place in our stomachs for Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes. That’s why the menu here is split pretty much down the middle between the foods of her Central American homeland and local […]
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While owner Gloria Rubio is Salvadoran, she certainly knows she’s in the Lone Star State and knows that most of us have a special place in our stomachs for Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes. That’s why the menu here is split pretty much down the middle between the foods of her Central American homeland and local […]
While owner Gloria Rubio is Salvadoran, she certainly knows she’s in the Lone Star State and knows that most of us have a special place in our stomachs for Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes. That’s why the menu here is split pretty much down the middle between the foods of her Central American homeland and local […]
While owner Gloria Rubio is Salvadoran, she certainly knows she’s in the Lone Star State and knows that most of us have a special place in our stomachs for Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes. That’s why the menu here is split pretty much down the middle between the foods of her Central American homeland and local […]
While owner Gloria Rubio is Salvadoran, she certainly knows she’s in the Lone Star State and knows that most of us have a special place in our stomachs for Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes. That’s why the menu here is split pretty much down the middle between the foods of her Central American homeland and local […]
Since 1973, Gonzales Restaurant has been dishing out traditional Tex-Mex and Mexican eats in a festive setting. There is a blue-tile bar and Southwestern geometric designs decorate the walls with colors straight out of a Frida Kahlo painting. Patrons dine on lengua almendrada, cabrito guisado, nopalitos con puerco and other house favorites as well as […]
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Colleen O’Hare & Jeana Johnson created an instantaneous hit with their little shop inside The Green Stop gas station and market in the White Rock area, and now they are making tacos at a new location. The emphasis here is on the local and the creative for those in need of a speedy nosh. While […]
Inhabiting a 1940s-era house (hence, hacienda) on Henderson, this restaurant brings the Tex-Mex and homey feeling to a crowded, high-energy entertainment district. It’s an extremely colorful and frenetic home, one filled with Mexican kitsch, burritos, enchiladas, tacos and fajitas during lunch and dinner. The chicken enchiladas with pepperjack cheese and sour cream tomatillo salsa, chile […]
This National Geographic-featured hole-in-the-wall is lauded for its enchiladas and dedicated regulars, who have been scarfing down combination plates for more than 40 years. Hungry? Try the popular Jimmy’s Special, which contains no less than a cheese enchilada, chicken enchilada with ranchero sauce, cheese taco, beef taco with guac, plus a burrito with beans, rice […]
Hugo’s Invitados is Mexican “influenced” cuisine with a focus on locally sourced and organic ingredients. There’s not a single bowl of queso on the menu. How about some ceviche fresco instead? Hankering a plate of nachos? You’re in luck, they’ve got those and they come topped with smoked salmon, a herbal avocado puree and mango-habanero […]
Like many business that found success in Austin, this Austin standby now has branch in Dallas. Here, you’ll find the same slick, modern trappings down to the neon glow and clean decorative lines. Iron Cactus offers gussied-up Tex-Mex (lobster tacos, anyone?), which can be paired with more than 75 tequilas. Perhaps you’d like tequila in […]
A Midland-Odessa transplant founded by Jorge Veloz Sr., this One Arts Plaza outpost was opened in 2008 by Veloz and family. The overall ambiance is one typical of Tex-Mex eateries the world over. However, its proximity to Dallas performing arts institutions gives it a more sophisticated sheen for the event-night crowd. Suits and evening wear […]
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This upscale Mexican restaurant, conveniently located near some of Dallas’ wealthiest neighborhoods, serves two menus. The first, which it debuted in 2017, is a canny setlist of fancied-up Tex-Mex favorites, such as $17 seafood enchiladas. The menu-within-a-menu is the work of a chef hired in late 2018, Anastacia Quiñones-Pittman, who brings her own distinctive and […]
Sitting on the porch at La Calle Doce in Oak Cliff, you could easily believe you were lunching in San Antonio, not Dallas. Upscale but not stuffy, this local institution (which also has an East Dallas location) serves some of the best-quality Mexican seafood in town, from ceviche cocktails and tostadas to seafood chiles rellenos […]
The food here is as good as Tex-Mex gets, with made-from-scratch salsas and unusual care given to ingredients on which other restaurants cheap out. There’s no better way to get to know La Comida than to try one of the generous combo plates, like the one with a superb chile con carne enchilada and a […]
It’s hard to miss the larger-than-life pink flamingos on the side La Comida along Beckley Avenue in Oak Cliff. La Comida makes traditional Tex-Mex classics, such as fajitas of every variety, tacos and chicken dishes. But the soul of the restaurant is in the Yucatan-influenced food, from which the owners hail. Try the cochinita pibil […]
One of the few restaurants where the theme won’t spoil your appetite, this rustic ranch/hunting lodge family-style eatery is comfortable and fun with food that can be surprising.
One of the few restaurants where the theme won’t spoil your appetite, this rustic ranch/hunting lodge family-style eatery is comfortable and fun with food that can be surprising.
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Three things give this restaurant notoriety: the outside taco window, from which customers order tacos with fresh tortillas; the bubbling Chori-Queso Fundido presented on a fajita skillet; and live music. Of course, the kitchen offers its signature grilled meats, like the pork chop, as the establishment’s name implies. Among the other menu favorites are homemade […]
Las Palmas has been cranking out some solid Tex-Mex for years; in fact, it was the 2022 Reader’s Choice pick for best all-around restaurant in Uptown. The votes poured in for good reason: the restaurant nails the classic dishes and serves them up in a classy dining room that mixes Dallas with a splash of […]
Tucked far, far away from the glittering, glowing lights of Victory Plaza, the sleek, upscale Victory Park location of Luna de Noche serves straight-up Tex-Mex with chic twists. Good Tex-Mex-which is certainly what Luna de Noche serves-hardly needs chic twists, but it seems our shiny new pre-fab entertainment district just rubs things that way. Underneath […]