Agreed. There is so much great Tex-Mex in Dallas. I haven't found better, either, although I'm sure it exists. I moved there for my first "real job" in 1990 and lived in an apartment near the North Park mall just off the North Central Expressway, near the so-called "five corners" including Greenville Ave. There was a place called Annie's Santa Fe that probably wasn't any better than 100 such places in Dallas but was truly amazing. Another was Rafael's near the office at Lemmon Park East, where on about my second day of work my many new friends urged me to take them all to lunch to be sure the home office back in Chicago would know my company AmEx card was activated and working correctly <lol>. I did, and the proverbial good time was had by all.

I wonder if Mias is the same spot as Rafael's?



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>I find it difficult to find good Mexican food even in S. Cal. Even a franchised restaurant like On the Border is not the same. It's much better in Texas.
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>I guess I'm spoiled by Tex-Mex during my growing up years in Dallas, Texas.
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>I don't say this lightly when I say go to Texas for great Tex-Mex food, it's worth the trip. If you ever got to Dallas, there is little restaurant on Lemmon Ave called Mias. The best Tex-Mex in town. It was a favorite of the great Tom Landry.
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>>About 30 years ago I was trying to find a good Mexican restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area. There were three advertising on the radio, so I tried each one. I got food poisoning at each one.
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>>My friend Tom Palado was from Mexico City, and knew that I like Mexican food and was sick for days after eating at local Mexican restaurants. I said, “Tom, where can I get good Mexican food”? Tom answered, “That’s easy! My mom’s house”!
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>>>I am 40 years old, but still when making a burrito I almost always put too much filling in it. I get too enthused about all of the yummy ingredients that I end of with this overstuff pillow like thing that breaks apart when I eat it. Then just long enough time passes before I have them again that I forget this lesson. I guess it is sort of like making a pizza, it hard to show restraint, but if you do it turns out so good.