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Speaker 2: But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 3: This thing's big Well text Mes News tend the week.
Speaker 3: On the border, Mexican Grill and Cantina has filed for
Speaker 3: bankruptcy protection, citing pressure from inflation and changing customer behavior.
Speaker 3: Now on the border, ironically not owned on any border
Speaker 3: Northern Georgia.
Speaker 2: Is that where the lady was who couldn't get her
Speaker 2: cheese during the pandemic?
Speaker 3: No, that was Mikosina.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they've recovered from that her not getting her cheese.
Speaker 3: I think she had to leave town. Yea too much
Speaker 3: social media.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think she ever.
Speaker 1: That was actually I believe the one in my near
Speaker 1: my neighborhood over there in Alan and Alan, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it was. She never recovered, but me Cosina just
Speaker 1: continue to set records for sales.
Speaker 2: Do great. My family last night, my daughter had to
Speaker 2: attract me and so they were out super late and
Speaker 2: they went to a restaurant in a very I don't
Speaker 2: want to call it out, but it was. They went
Speaker 2: to a pretty well known restaurant in a pretty well known,
Speaker 2: nice community that you think would be hustling and bustling.
Speaker 2: It was dead, Like everywhere was dead. And so you
Speaker 2: mentioned consumer behavior changing, I think folks are holding one
Speaker 2: of their wallets right now pretty tightly.
Speaker 3: That's what they said, you know, citing pressure from inflation
Speaker 3: and changing customer behavior. In court papers, it said customers
Speaker 3: ate out less in recent years, which I get that.
Speaker 3: I think people do eat out less once there's kids.
Speaker 3: Once you have kids eating out as much, I'm guessing yeah,
Speaker 3: but it could be wrong.
Speaker 2: No, you're right, And part of the reason is kids
Speaker 2: are stupid and they don't have really good palettes. They
Speaker 2: only eat like three things, and so it sucks to
Speaker 2: go spend a bunch of money on a meal for
Speaker 2: them to they don't eat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they could just they just you know, like eat
Speaker 3: at home. I have the cheese that you want at home,
Speaker 3: because kids love cheese.
Speaker 1: I think also the problem with tax mechs in particular
Speaker 1: is you look at the ingredients and you go, why
Speaker 1: is that Entree nineteen dollars.
Speaker 3: It's also says they've struggled to recruit and retain workers.
Speaker 3: There's Astrono bankruptcy. Hooters just did it. Well, we might
Speaker 3: see a lot of restaurants file for bankruptcy. They'll still
Speaker 3: they're still working, They're still out there. There's still let's see,
Speaker 3: they closed forty locations last month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think it's about to get better. Put
Speaker 2: it like that.
Speaker 1: How many on the borders are there? I only know
Speaker 1: of like one in town.
Speaker 3: Sixty and eighteen states.
Speaker 2: Oh so they cut two thirds of their on the borders.
Speaker 2: Sounds like it, all right.
Speaker 4: The one in Denton is still there, right.
Speaker 3: One in Denton, I don't know. The one in which
Speaker 3: Tall Falls is still kicking. I know that because you know,
Speaker 3: when I see my parents are like, it's a lot
Speaker 3: of places to go. Yeah. Now, Channel eight sparked a
Speaker 3: text Mex controversy before the story even broke. They just
Speaker 3: put out a list and it was nothing more than
Speaker 3: just probably a little bit of engagement farming. Uh, here's
Speaker 3: a list of eight iconic tex Mex restaurants in North Texas,
Speaker 3: and I'll tell you what was on the list. And
Speaker 3: then they got bombarded with people going, no, this place
Speaker 3: should be on the place should be on those that's
Speaker 3: not authentic.
Speaker 2: I know for sure Joe ts is on there.
Speaker 3: Joe ts is on there. Desperados does personally not make them.
Speaker 2: What made the secondary list?
Speaker 3: Uh, Polito's Kitchen and Cantena, the original Mexican Eats cafe.
Speaker 3: These are all fourth places right now?
Speaker 2: Guess I don't know those last two.
Speaker 3: Lost for Cattle's fourth and then over in Dallas Micosina, Manny's,
Speaker 3: Mariano's Hacienda, and El Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Dude, I feel like my Casina is undefeated. It's great,
Speaker 2: so good, you just can't miss anytime you go there. Agreed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know that they're a place that gets
Speaker 3: called out whenever the Rolling Stones are in town for years.
Speaker 2: Mombo Talxi, No, Gloria's is is some It's different, right,
Speaker 2: It's not text mex there's Salvadorian.
Speaker 1: Yeah there, well, there's They have three different parts of
Speaker 1: their menu. One part is text max, one part is Salvadorian. Really,
Speaker 1: I would say that it is.
Speaker 4: We live within walking distance of one. It's dangerous, so good, amazing.
Speaker 4: It is the third part of their menu. Kids, it's
Speaker 4: bean I don't know.
Speaker 3: I gotta you said, there's three parts of the mirror
Speaker 3: are there's like text mex Salvadorian and I.
Speaker 2: Can't remember what this.
Speaker 3: Middle ODIs. Uh so here's the place is that the
Speaker 3: readers threw in over a dozen emails mentioned Pape's and Metos,
Speaker 3: which is Elm Street and Dallas. I guess that's deep Elm.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I've never heard of it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Oh, hite us eat us. That's proud Us off Greenville.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of. Las Enchiladas is again not a
Speaker 2: super creative name. Do they serve enchiladas there?
Speaker 3: That's their go to?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well I thought it might be because he
Speaker 3: is Casita.
Speaker 2: That's like the donut place called donut.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Tupinamba that is the home of the hangover taco dude
Speaker 1: to Be's tacos is supposed to be the best hangover cure.
Speaker 3: That's not like some sort of Asian soup. I loved
Speaker 3: when Topinamba was on Jeopardy that one time. And I
Speaker 3: guess Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 2: That was wonderful. Sorry, is that the A and M guy?
Speaker 1: Yes? Great, Eddie Demenez took Thomas Jefferson to the state
Speaker 1: high school basketball championship in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 2: I never forget.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cosin Navarro off Marshall, Holy for Holies over there, Richardson,
Speaker 3: walking distance from my house. I went to Holly for
Speaker 3: Holies a time or two. Pretty little Mark's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh them, Yeah yeah, you just said you support
Speaker 2: them and you raise your voice like well.
Speaker 3: The problem that they have is if I was going
Speaker 3: to walk to Holy for Holies, I might stop off
Speaker 3: at Swainio first, a better Tex Mex restaurant.
Speaker 2: Oh, the local business in your community, trying to make
Speaker 2: it there. It goes that endorsement.
Speaker 3: Good listener. Uh works over at Sweno as well too.
Speaker 3: That's a great sat Me tell you guys, do you guys?
Speaker 3: Are you guys Taco Joint fans? Of course, I'm away
Speaker 3: on board. I'm way on board with Taco Joint. I
Speaker 3: think the world is They're amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I stopped there frequently. Right there at Inwood across
Speaker 1: from Jesuit.
Speaker 3: You can have breakfast n there two on a breakfast TALKO.
Speaker 2: Man, how many are there? There's mocking Bird, there's in
Speaker 2: Wood there more than that.
Speaker 3: There's one of Bishop Barts. We went last week. Yeah,
Speaker 3: There's there's one off Casting m Street's area. There's one, okay,
Speaker 3: and then there's uh, you said, mocking Bird. There's also
Speaker 3: one over here in Addison that's not too far. Maybe
Speaker 3: it would technically be North Dallas off Preston. Uh, I
Speaker 3: tell you how much, Gabrie and Sofia Man.
Speaker 1: No one can understand the words you're saying. He bandidos
Speaker 1: bandidos is good.
Speaker 2: It's over there and Snyder Plaza.
Speaker 3: Matt's Rancho Martinez in Allen.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I've been there. It's okay. I guess Matt
Speaker 2: Matt's staff probably wait in there.
Speaker 3: Matitios what Matito's Matito's off Forest. I see that e
Speaker 3: Bar haskel Haskell Avenue. You ever been to e Bar?
Speaker 2: I have. It's been before the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Ebar feels like one that was around and like when
Speaker 3: y'all were growing up.
Speaker 2: But they fancied it up, Dude.
Speaker 4: E Bar is packed every time I try to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know they fancied it up on
Speaker 1: the cocktail side and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: MIA's off Lemon Avenue is an interesting one, very delicious,
Speaker 3: very small. I remember the first time I went there,
Speaker 3: there was like seven members of the polyphonic spree having
Speaker 3: just a bunch of Mexican fiting the Hey guys, they're
Speaker 3: doing that weird.
Speaker 2: They were in their biggest groupie great guys. One day
Speaker 2: they weren't wearing robes.
Speaker 1: So, uh, MIAs is obviously legendary because that's Jimmy met
Speaker 1: Jerry and the picture ended up in the Dallas Morning News.
Speaker 1: And it's also it's the same family that me Cosina
Speaker 1: split off of and then what happened was it splintered
Speaker 1: off of MIA's and then uh Ray Washburn got involved
Speaker 1: in exploded me Cosina And that's why it's everywhere. But
Speaker 1: that's why Ernie's Chicken is the same as Ernesto's Patuga
Speaker 1: de poyo or no, yeah, is that what you know?
Speaker 1: Pachuga day whatever. It's the same dish, but it's named differently.
Speaker 1: One is Ernie's and one is Arnesto's because it came
Speaker 1: from that.
Speaker 2: MIA's. Is MIA's where we'd go meet machine.
Speaker 1: No, So that's that place is called that's over there
Speaker 1: right by neighborhood Services. What is the name of that
Speaker 1: place that's just west of the toll way on Lovers.
Speaker 3: I know, the vicinity, Yeah, killed the Inwood tavern kind
Speaker 3: of that are to time out tavern area.
Speaker 2: I can't remember the name of it. I probably pulled
Speaker 2: up on a mat. It looks like this MIA's menu.
Speaker 3: Herrera's Classic Dallas Mexican restaurant as well. They sit down. Also,
Speaker 3: I'll say this was sent in by many listeners to
Speaker 3: Channel eight, who pissed everyone off when they put out
Speaker 3: eight iconic textbox restaurants. Lastly on there was Pancho's Mexican.
Speaker 2: I don't get it. Why would somebody include Ponchos in
Speaker 2: this discussion? Pump Man Ponchos is amazing. No, it's basically
Speaker 2: bathroom fuel. It's essentially if it was a pitcher, it
Speaker 2: would be a middle reliever, it would be it's not
Speaker 2: good enough to be a starter. It's definitely not a closer,
Speaker 2: but you let it pitch when you're losing seventeen to
Speaker 2: four to the Royals and you're already in the third inning.
Speaker 3: It is certainly budget food. I have never been I
Speaker 3: should just call it.
Speaker 2: That Pancho's budget food, Poncho's budget cafe.
Speaker 3: It's a buffer, right, it's a buffet. Is that's the play?
Speaker 3: I can't remember if it's a buffet so much as
Speaker 3: you go through, and then you raise the flag and
Speaker 3: they bring more too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and dude, I'll tell you those chicken floutas are magical,
Speaker 2: but you see them in your toilet shortly thereafter.
Speaker 3: Is there any other Mexican food chains or anything that
Speaker 3: come to mind? There's one that you know. I'll get
Speaker 3: to two that I've stopped. You know, every once in
Speaker 3: a while, my wife doesn't like Uncle Julio's as much
Speaker 3: as I do. I love their salcea at Uncle Julio's.
Speaker 2: Chewi's Chewi's is legit. Yes, Chewies I do too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Solid ever time get that what is it called big
Speaker 3: as your head burrito or big as your face burrito?
Speaker 2: I think got like a Jlipino ranch dip. That's just
Speaker 2: the boobs.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just real ones No, you just get
Speaker 3: that appetizer sampler going. Oh, dude, do you get a
Speaker 3: little bit of everything? Your Gucci fan too, Margerita's Deep. Yep,
Speaker 3: you're having the time of your life.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm sitting here helping a lot, sitting here
Speaker 3: trying to look at lovers in Inwood area to try
Speaker 3: to find that place.
Speaker 2: And I just can't find it.
Speaker 4: Man, place of Tacoo is great. Where's that it's down,
Speaker 4: Bishop Barb. Yes, it's fantasy. It's more like street tacos.
Speaker 4: But they are so good, delicioso.
Speaker 2: It is imperative right now if you want to support,
Speaker 2: if you love a restaurant, you know, get out there
Speaker 2: and support it as much as you can.
Speaker 1: It's not great right now. Tough times for the ye
Speaker 1: ye all right. Uh, I hope everyone had a wonderful week.
Speaker 1: And now at five almost six o'clock on a Friday,
Speaker 1: you're rushing out to eat some Mexican food. That is
Speaker 1: going to do it for us. Now, don't forget, MAVs
Speaker 1: is early tonight, so pregame is early. But I'll never
Speaker 1: forget the time that KT looked Poncho dead in the
Speaker 1: eye and he said was in the today and it
Speaker 1: was strange. No, I'm sure what that meant. All right,
Speaker 1: stick around right here on the eagle there you.
Speaker 2: Going, well, I want to get my sack backed, dude
Speaker 3: God bless Jesus,