The building on Manor Way near Love Field looks like it might be a mechanic shop, and that’s because it also used to be one. Abdol Samad Afghanipour ran both operations out of the same address for years — auto repair on one side, Persian food on the other — and if that sounds like an unlikely combination, it made complete sense to a man who came to Dallas from Iran in 1982 with a simple plan: work hard at whatever needed doing and eventually open a restaurant. He opened Samad Cafe at 2706 Manor Way in 1989. He has been running it alone ever since.
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