Fort Worth Tex-Mex restaurant The Original Mexican Eats Cafe was given three more months to serve queso and enchiladas on Camp Bowie Boulevard.
The Original will now close June 30, 2023, three months later than the original expiration date of March 31, 2023. The landlord granted an extension, confirms owner Robert Self. He wouldn’t say whether another one is likely.
“I wish I could see into the future,” Self said. But, still: “We live to Tex-Mex another day.”
The nearly 100 year-old restaurant is closing because of a lease dispute, Self said in February 2023.
The Original is one of the longest-running restaurants in Dallas-Fort Worth, and it’s one of the only ones that has inhabited its original address for all of those years.
A second Original Mexican Eats Cafe will remain open 5 miles away. It’s not the original Original, but it has the same menu.
To learn more about the history of The Original Mexican Eats Cafe, please read this story.
The original Original Mexican Eats Cafe is at 4713 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth. It is now expected to remain open until the end of service on June 30, 2023.
An Original Mexican Eats Cafe will remain open at 1400 N. Main St., Fort Worth.
