Comments on: Somebody Help This Poor Girl: Great Tamales in Dallas

By: VM

VM — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:33:44 +0000

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

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:07:13 +0000

How do we get in contact with Tamale Dave?? I Googled him and I only pull up Dallas Observer reports by Dave Faries

By: borntorhone

borntorhone — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:26:38 +0000

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!

By: Twinwillow

Twinwillow — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:04:41 +0000

Yeah, just don’t go looking for tamales in that neighborhood after midnight.

By: mare

mare — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:30:08 +0000

AVILA’s on Maple. Hands down the best.

By: Dubious Brother

Dubious Brother — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:43:46 +0000

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.

By: Dubious Brother

Dubious Brother — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:23:08 +0000

How about just three.

By: Really?

Really? — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:26:50 +0000

How about listing a dozen places south of the Trinity that sell handmade (not extruded) tamales, Rawlins.

By: Rawlins Nichol-Plated

Rawlins Nichol-Plated — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:09:33 +0000

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.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:57:34 +0000

Carlos Rodriguez’s mom makes some of the best i’ve had. I wish you could have some too.

By: Amy B

Amy B — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:17:03 +0000

ojeda’s- you can get them at the restaurant or order them to go

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:27:14 +0000

Glorias has amazing tamales….but if you need more variety, call Tamale Dave! Just google him, he’s in dallas

By: Twinwillow

Twinwillow — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:13:28 +0000

I’ve also heard good things about La Popular.

By: Twinwillow

Twinwillow — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:12:49 +0000

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.

By: henry

henry — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:24:24 +0000

la popular

By: Kathie G.

Kathie G. — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:45:21 +0000

Is Eat The World a place? Is it in Dallas?

By: JB

JB — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:29:57 +0000

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.

By: Carla

Carla — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:48:38 +0000

Dallas Tortilla Factory.

By: gammypie

gammypie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:02:40 +0000

Luna’s!

By: MP

MP — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:42:43 +0000

or maybe it is Greenville still at that location.

By: MP

MP — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:41:22 +0000

that place on Munger next to the mechanic’s shop.

By: Vic

Vic — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:28:11 +0000

Dallas Tortilla Factory

By: mark

mark — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:18:24 +0000

Berrry Hill on Preston & Frankford, not cheap but good.

By: whoknew

whoknew — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:16:54 +0000

The tamale house next to el chicos downtown? You have to order ahead-they are the best!

By: Billusa99

Billusa99 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:16:48 +0000

Eat The World. Toby’s tamales rock!

By: WB

WB — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:03:30 +0000

La Popular Tamale House