Chicken-fried steak, meatloaf, pot roast: They’re all at a new Airport Freeway cafe
Until Dixie House Cafe reopens, this’ll work.
Real Texas Cafe is open at 2103 W. Airport Freeway, serving familiar home cooking just when the beloved Theresa’s Dixie House Cafes are taking a few days off.
Roy Villarreal worked at Dixie House restaurants 20 years. So if his meatloaf or chicken-fried steaks seem similar — well, he did work there 20 years.
His new restaurant is next door to a former Dixie House location.
Villarreal moves from Keller, where he sold his popular Roy’s Mexican & American restaurant.
He went ahead and opened as a take-out restaurant because “we felt out community needs the kind of comfort food we offer,” he wrote in a message.
That’s true. Comfort food has been a big seller, both as family dinners and temporary indulgences.
His hope, he wrote, is that Euless “can find a little bit of comfort in homemade meals.”
A lunch stop this week produced remarkable results.
For $10, the lunches include two veggies, a salad and giant rolls.
They’re huge. Two could easily share, or two lunches could feed four.
The meatloaf, like Dixie House’s, is lean and among the best. Fried okra seemed hand-cut and battered.
Loaded mashed potatoes were a step above the regular variety.
The chicken-fried chicken was large and peppery.
Other entrees include chicken-fried steak, pork chops and pot roast
Real Texas Cafe is open for lunch and dinner daily for now and will add breakfast later; 817-864-8400.
(Theresa’s Dixie House Cafe is expected to reopen on East Lancaster Avenue first. The East Belknap Street location is being remodeled during the break, Theresa Simon said.)
This story was originally published April 24, 2020 at 5:45 AM.
