Eddie Cervantes has been feeding Dallas Tex-Mex since 1981. He opened Primo’s Bar & Grill on McKinney Avenue in 1986 and built it into one of the most loved Tex-Mex cantinas the city has ever had — where locals, chefs, and the occasional celebrity would end up on a Tuesday night over meltdown margaritas and a bowl of queso that nobody wanted to stop eating. Primo’s ran for years. People still bring it up.
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Eddie’s Tex-Mex Cocina isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel—it’s just making sure the tires are perfectly inflated and the engine hums. This Lower Greenville gem delivers a menu built on memory: the kind of Tex-Mex that feels familiar but rarely tastes this fresh. It’s a small, unfussy space with an open view into the kitchen, where the scent of grilled onions, cumin, and bubbling chili hits before you even sit down. All this from the artful mind of Eddie Cervantes of E-Bar fame.
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