El Fenix

On Saturday, we took a drive to uptown Dallas and checked out a couple upscale furniture consignment shops and some antique stores....more on that in a minute. In all of our driving about we decided we better eat something, and stumbled upon El Fenix Mexican Restaurant. This is only the seocnd Mexican restaurant we've frequented since being in Dallas, so I'm certain there are many more equally as good, but El Fenix has a great atmosphere and amazing Mexican food! They opened in 1918 at the exact location they are at today. Since opening decades ago, they have branched out so today, you can find several El Fenix Restaurants in the surrounding Dallas area. The one we ate at was the original one in what is now referred to as Uptown Dallas.
The food is genuinely authentic, reasonably priced and we will be going back. Henry found a website called Copycat.com that actually has recipes for tons of restaurants, El Fenix included. Their guacamole (yum!)recipe is online, along with other recipes. Even better, is that in yesterday's paper, El Fenix has an insert for a buy one entree, get one free! Jack's going to love that, because he may even get some leftover tamales next time. :)