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Alligator Cafe

9540 Garland Rd.
Dallas, TX 75218

White Rock Lake Area

214-821-6900

http://www.eatgator.com

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Hours:Tues-Wed 11am-9pm, Thurs 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10:30pm, Sun 11am-9pm, Closed Mondays
Price:$
Serving: Lunch, Dinner
Features: Takeout
Parking: Parking Lot Available
Reservations: Reservations Accepted, Reservations Not Necessary

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A perennial winner of the Observer's "Best Cajun" honor, Alligator Café is a counter-service take on South Louisiana cuisine. The restaurant is a reliable source of boiled crawfish come mudbug season, and the popular pies tend to sell out before closing time. The East Dallas restaurant's good cheer and boudin balls have won over eaters, and the Cajun eatery also offers occasional live blues on the weekends from the likes of local luminaries.

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Alligator Cafe Seized for Nonpayment of Taxes
Thursday, November 9, 2017 at 12:29 p.m. by Beth Rankin

According to a sign posted to the front door, Alligator Cafe in East Dallas has, as of Nov. 8, been seized by the state of Texas for nonpayment of taxes. On Thursday morning, the long-running Cajun eatery in Casa Linda was dark, the...
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Monday, February 15, 2016 at 7:16 a.m. by Nick Rallo

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Monday, February 11, 2013 at 1:19 p.m. by Lauren Drewes Daniels

The Free Man Cajun Café in Deep Ellum is a small, dark, shotgun bar and restaurant with marginal lighting that keeps things dim, which is certainly a prerequisite for any proper New Orleans-ish bar. So, if you're going for a ...
Alligator Cafe's Voodoo Sauce Burned My Face Off, But it Was Worth It
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 12 p.m. by Whitney Filloon

I recently mentioned to a friend that I was on a quest to hunt down the best spicy foods in Dallas, and he implored me to visit Alligator Cafe to try their Voodoo sauce, mentioning that they'd appeared on Food Network's Heat Seekers...

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