Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Fort Worth TX
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Other suggestions that not terribly far from your hotel:
"Pappas Bros Steakhouse" for true Texas "excess" (helipad, private cigar lockers, and annual "table reserves" for area CEOs)... not more expensive than Bob's or Nick and Sams and closer into the airport corridor (Northwest Hwy and 35)
"Esparzas" for basic Tex-Mex in Grapevine (in an old house off Main Street - about five minutes from the north exit at DFW west on 114). I have to disagree with the Joe T. Garcia's sugggestion (and I'm a Fort Worth native)... the only appeal JTG's ever had was their lethal margaritas and since the Alcoholic Beverage Commission shut them down in the early 90s for cutting their drinks with Everclear, things haven't been the same.
The Omni is on 635. Head due east for about four miles and there is a Popeyes directly off the right access road after you cross I-35. I think it is off the Webb Chapel/Josey exit but I'm not certain.
If you want to try down home Southern cooking, go to Po Melvins. Dive restaurant in a strip mall in Irving, but killer chicken fried steak, pot roast, meatloaf, po boys, etc. Take 635 west, exit Belt Line south... at the Belt Line/Story intersection.