Regular Joe's Guide

Locations: DFW (4); Houston / College Station / Beaumont (19); Austin (5); San Antonio (3). For our NE Tarrant readers, it appears Alliance would be the closest. HQ: Houston (founded: 1983) Alrighty - Mr. Music is on the scoreboard for 2025! Looks like he's been visiting a chain that owns tex-mex.com. Let's see how his experiences went. --- I went out to McKinney to meet my brother, my sister-in-law and their son's family for some disc golf. After a great, long round in the woods we were all famished! My nephew and his wife, seemingly in unison said "have you ever been to Lupe Tortilla?" "We gotta go!". They explained that their flour and corn tortillas were freshly made there and they had fantastic fajitas and lots of other Tex-Mex dishes. They had me at fresh made corn tortillas! You don't get those everywhere! I figured this must be some cool mom/pop place; my favorite! I followed them to the restaurant, which was on Central Expressway in Allen....

...only a few years too late... You can save time on the narrative below and go here:  https://www.instagram.com/regularjoesguide There was a time when the RJG was ahead of the curve, especially when one considers that we were the single most popular restaurant blog in Dallas-Fort Worth according to Urbanspoon. Yea, Urbanspoon. Remember them? They were a blog friendly site that helped promote local restaurants via those blogs. We ended up designing this blog around that site, which took me some years to unwind. In 2015, an Indian firm called Zomato bought the site and subsequently destroyed it because they didn't take the time to understand why it was popular. They took away crowd sourcing, and everyone eventually moved to Google Reviews and Yelp. Both platforms are decidedly anti-blog. We've added reviews to Google and TripAdvisor, but it hasn't lead to much activity here. Why do I prefer the blog platform over the others? Because I can control the content and keep posts r...

Latest visit: Feb 2026 (S. Academy @ Hancock) First visit: Jan 2025 (S. Academy @ Hancock) ---2/21/26 This is my first visit back. It's always difficult for me to find places to eat in this part of Colorado Springs, and with many restaurants closing here, and no new ones opening, it only gets harder. For this visit I tried the carne asada, plus the same two as last year (pollo asado and ground beef). I'm not a fan of pico or guac, and when you remove them, you're left with a meat taco. I wouldn't suggest that the carne asada is overly charbroiled which is disappointing. The chicken taco remains excellent and the ground beef remains kind of bland. The three salsas mentioned below were also consistent. I really like the one they refer to as "hot", which I think is spicier than their "extra hot".  Next time I should try a burrito or something else. Their tacos are good, but compared to Zapata and Tacos del Gordo, they fall short. It doesn't look lik...