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You could try Applebees or Whataburger, but sometimes the gems like that are going to require a drive from downtown.
You could try Applebees or Whataburger, but sometimes the gems like that are going to require a drive from downtown.
Casa Rio was pretty solid. I liked it.
Landry’s sucks in Lake Charles. Overpriced as well.
Leaving today since the conference ends at 12.
That can’t be right. You must be thinking of different places.
You could hook up with SpursforSix and he could show you the fastest way to get thru grocery lines.
That sounds like fun.
Who would ever go to NOLA and go to a ing Landry's? Yes I remember walking by 2 of them right there in the French Quarter, but the nameless places are so much better.
San Antonio is to Mexican food as NOLA is to Cajun creole food and Gulf style seafood. The best and cheapest places are in the higher-crime parts several miles from downtown San Antonio. Don't be surprised if the waitresses are fat and don't speak much English. Be prepared to order and know at least some conversational Spanish...
"harina" - flour
"maiz" - corn (tortilla)
"con/sin arroz" = with/without rice
"con/sin frijoles" = with/without beans
"coca" = Coke, but also could mean any kind of soda
"res" - beef
"pollo" - chicken
"puerco" - pork
"pescado" - fish
"salsa verde" - green sauce
"salsa roja" - red sauce
"chinga tu puta madre" - your dirty mother
Shut the up. You’re just the type of person to go out of town and go to a chain restaurant.
You live in an area with a reasonable amount of decent Mexican restaurants but you go to Taco Bueno and Taco Cabana. Then about it.
DFW doesn't have decent Mexican restaurants. Not like the Mexican food I was spoiled on growing up in SA, at least. I'm not going to spend $30/person on a "fine dining" Mexican restaurant in Dallas, because that's not the Mexican restaurant ambiance or pricing I was raised on. I was raised on holes-in-the-wall type places with the papeles picados decorating the interior and cheerful fat Mexican women serving my food, not gringos and negritos working there just for the decent wages.
For example.... when I was in Manhattan for a month last spring.... I didn't go to any chains. I did get the dollar pizza from a few dollar pizza places, but also tried the best pizza Manhattan had to offer that was within my budget... Joe's. A can't miss NYC staple.
When I was in Cincinatti for all of last August, I did go to Skyline and Gold Star, yes those are chains but they are local only chains... there's not really anywhere else you can really find Cincinnati chili? Plus all the locals go there anyway. I stopped going after the 3rd time because that Cincinnati chili really devastated my GI tract.
I quit after the first paragraph. There’s plenty of hole in the wall places in Dallas. My guess is you’re to scared to be in those areas. But go ahead and keep eating Taco Bueno.
Mainly because I don't know about them. There was a hole in the wall place in a gas station in Denton that I only knew about because my favorite Chicano friend Angel from UNT knew about it. But as far as Plano/Carrollton area goes, I'm clueless and all the fellow gringos up here I talk to keep talking up Chuys and Del Frisco, which are mediocre and way overpriced.
I'm not scared to go to a Mexican area. Obviously it's safer in SA because my mom's around but I wasn't scared to walk to Taqueria Estrella in Denton and I wouldn't be scared up here either. I just don't know where to go. It seems all the less-well-off places in DFW are majority black, not Hispanic unlike in SA.
And for the record, I don't eat at Taco Bueno. I ate at the one inside the UNT Union in 2016 a few times because it came with my Flex Dollars. But I've never eaten at one ever since. Really haven't eaten any Mexican food north of SA since UNT graduation in 2016 aside from buying occasional cans of Juanita's Menudo from Walmart (which is surprisingly good).
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