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Somebody Help This Poor Boy: Chilean Restaurant

Posted on October 19th, 2009 9:39am by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Celebrity Diners, Restaurant News

I’ve already told him you can find bits (bites?) of Chile at La Duni, Zaguan, and Stephan Pyles, but he wants more.

Do you know of any Chilean restaurant in DFW (empanadas, etc.)? It’s kind of hard to Google “Chile” and DFW without Google thinking of the pepper and not the country.

Silly Google. We’re smarter than Google.

13 Comments to “Somebody Help This Poor Boy: Chilean Restaurant”

Worzel Gummidge @ October 19th, 2009 at 10:34 am

Don Panza, in The OC, is Argentinian. Without comment on territorial issues, that is close. The empanadas are addictive.
CoB @ October 19th, 2009 at 11:26 am

Is Don Panza currently open? I saw a note that they are closed until November when they will open at a new location. Their website is not working either.
Nancy Nichols @ October 19th, 2009 at 11:39 am

I thought Don Panza was gone. Thanks for the reminder.
patti @ October 19th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

Try Gran Machu Picchu
http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/13/163874/restaurant/Gran-Machu-Picchu-Garland
but I don’t think they have empanadas.
Worzel Gummidge @ October 19th, 2009 at 12:41 pm

Thanks, CoB. Apparently to a Cliff Dweller I just corresponded with, their answering machine has a message saying that they are moving to Beckley Ave. and will have a name change. It doesn’t say whether the present site has closed. The web site has been down for months so I would not read too much into that.
Worzel Gummidge @ October 19th, 2009 at 12:42 pm

One place for empanadas that is open is Inca Cafe in Carrollton.
Shane @ October 19th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

Don Panza is moving to 1116 N Beckley Ave across from Spiral Diner and Beckley Brewhouse. They will be changing their names it stated on their telephone recording. I would look in the shopping center across Beckley from Spiral Diner at the corner of Zang and Beckley.
214-514-1184 is the new telephone number.

I would say that the Peruvian inspired Inca’s Cafe is the closest thing we have to Chilean cuisine. It is not an exact match but might suffice. I do know that the ceviche de pescado is very good at Inca’s Cafe. They also have empanadas as Worzel had stated.
http://incas-cafe.com/menu.html#

If you are not into Inca’s Cafe a few blocks away at Trinity Mills and Marsh is El Portal a Colombian cafe. They have awesome almojabanas (cheese bread), milhojas (a pastry) and their daily lunch plates are quite good.
http://www.el-portal.info/
Twinwillow @ October 19th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

This is all great information for me as coincidentally, I just started a topic on Chowhound.com asking about restaurants in Dallas serving empanadas. Other than, On The Border. Don Panza was mentioned as the best.
Twinwillow @ October 19th, 2009 at 6:23 pm

Who is, “he”?
Billusa99 @ October 20th, 2009 at 9:50 am

If the Peruvian-inspired Inca’s Cafe is the closest thing we have to Chilean cuisine, does that mean that the Italian-inspired Olive Garden is the closest thing we have to Tibetan cuisine?

Sheeeeeesh….
Balonpie @ October 20th, 2009 at 11:55 am

Empanadas at On The Border? You have got to be kidding me! Whose border? Peru’s Argentina’ Bolivia?
Jessica @ November 4th, 2009 at 7:44 pm

Thanks for the post! My boyfriend is Chilean and we will be visiting Dallas in about two weeks. I’d love to take him somewhere with Chilean food (we’re from Michigan and there is nowhere around here with food that is remotely close to Chilean cuisine).
matias @ November 8th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

Whole foods is making really good empanadas.
Argentinean style.

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