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Remember La Tunisia? Dallas Once Had One of the Most Gloriously Over-the-Top Restaurants in America.

Before Dallas had a fine dining scene worth arguing about, it had La Tunisia — and La Tunisia had a seven-foot doorman named Abdull who had allegedly been a palace guard for Sheik Mirza Hassan of Morocco and wore ceremonial Watusi chieftain’s robes to work every day on Harry Hines Boulevard.

It was that era in Dallas. And it was that kind of restaurant.

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