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Somebody Help This Poor Girl: Great Tamales in Dallas

Posted on October 16th, 2009 1:56pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Holidays, Restaurant News

Some people are already planning their holiday parties and are looking for great tamales by the dozen in Dallas. Giddy-up.

26 Comments to “Somebody Help This Poor Girl: Great Tamales in Dallas”

WB @ October 16th, 2009 at 2:03 pm

La Popular Tamale House
Billusa99 @ October 16th, 2009 at 2:16 pm

Eat The World. Toby’s tamales rock!
whoknew @ October 16th, 2009 at 2:16 pm

The tamale house next to el chicos downtown? You have to order ahead-they are the best!
mark @ October 16th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Berrry Hill on Preston & Frankford, not cheap but good.
Vic @ October 16th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

Dallas Tortilla Factory
MP @ October 16th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

that place on Munger next to the mechanic’s shop.
MP @ October 16th, 2009 at 2:42 pm

or maybe it is Greenville still at that location.
gammypie @ October 16th, 2009 at 3:02 pm

Luna’s!
Carla @ October 16th, 2009 at 3:48 pm

Dallas Tortilla Factory.
JB @ October 16th, 2009 at 4:29 pm

The lady who comes by my house once a month. I know that doesn’t help any one but those home made ones really are the best.
Kathie G. @ October 16th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

Is Eat The World a place? Is it in Dallas?
henry @ October 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm

la popular
Twinwillow @ October 16th, 2009 at 6:12 pm

I don’t know where the best tamales in Dallas are now. But, I do know where the best ones were. At the just closed, Lito’s on Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. How sad that they are gone, now.
Twinwillow @ October 16th, 2009 at 6:13 pm

I’ve also heard good things about La Popular.
Danielle @ October 16th, 2009 at 7:27 pm

Glorias has amazing tamales….but if you need more variety, call Tamale Dave! Just google him, he’s in dallas
Amy B @ October 16th, 2009 at 8:17 pm

ojeda’s- you can get them at the restaurant or order them to go
Kevin @ October 16th, 2009 at 8:57 pm

Carlos Rodriguez’s mom makes some of the best i’ve had. I wish you could have some too.
Rawlins Nichol-Plated @ October 17th, 2009 at 3:09 pm

You’re kidding with this one, right? Because anywhere south of the Trinity— North Central Oak Cliff , or north of the Trinity between Harry Hines and Webb’s Chapel or south of I-30 below Bruton Rd. in Pleasant Grove, even in Irving; Where hundreds of thousands of Mexican and other Latino immigrants live, wonderful handmade tamales of every stripe are as common in our city as sand in Guam or autumn leaves in a deciduous forest.
Really? @ October 17th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

How about listing a dozen places south of the Trinity that sell handmade (not extruded) tamales, Rawlins.
Dubious Brother @ October 17th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

How about just three.
Dubious Brother @ October 17th, 2009 at 4:43 pm

La Popular is just two blocks up the street from Los Dos Reales which was featured in this story in the DMN this morning:

“Johan Friesen, 50, of Seminole, Texas, was shot in the chest at the Los Dos Reales bar, in the 100 block of North Fitzhugh Avenue.”

Good tamales in what can be a tough neighborhood where it is best that you know where you are going and have someone with you.
mare @ October 17th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

AVILA’s on Maple. Hands down the best.
Twinwillow @ October 18th, 2009 at 11:04 am

Yeah, just don’t go looking for tamales in that neighborhood after midnight.
borntorhone @ October 19th, 2009 at 7:26 am

La Victoria at 1605 Haskell (between Ross and San Jacinto). I live across the street, but this place is very convenient to anybody in downtown or uptown area. The menu is small but everything on it is fantastic and the tamales are crazy good – fat and stuffed with meat seasoned just right. I was born and raised in San Antonio and my tamale standards are very high!
Shane @ October 19th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

How do we get in contact with Tamale Dave?? I Googled him and I only pull up Dallas Observer reports by Dave Faries
VM @ October 19th, 2009 at 7:33 pm

La Popular is good (and don’t be scared at all). But the best tamales hands down are Luna’s. Not even a contest

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