Legendary Dallas Tex-Mex restaurant El Fenix is 105 years old. That impressive age makes El Fenix not only the oldest restaurant open in North Texas, it also makes it one of the longest-lasting ...

El Fenix is a Tex-Mex chain known for its enchiladas. The operators have more than a dozen El Fenix restaurants in Dallas-Fort Worth, but one closed on Lemmon Avenue in Dallas. El Fenix / Staff ...

Thursday marks an important day in the rich culinary history of Texas, the 100th birthday of the nation’s oldest Tex-Mex restaurant chain – El Fenix. In 1918, the Martinez family opened the first El ...

WAXAHACHIE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Monday, September 27 th, El Fenix CEO and Owner Mike Karns joins Waxahachie Mayor, NB (Buck) Jordan, for the grand opening of El Fenix’s 19 th location. A ribbon ...

The sign out front of the flagship El Fenix restaurant in Uptown Dallas proudly proclaims "We Are Back." Still here, after surviving wars, recessions -- and not one, but two pandemics -- the 1918 ...

John McBride couldn’t outrun his roots. The fourth-generation leader descends from El Fenix founder Miguel Martinez, but as a young adult, he wanted to be a journalist. “That pen sitting next to that ...

There were certain dilemmas that my mom, a single parent in her twenties living in 1980s Dallas, had to contend with. Should we live in a “good” neighborhood or buy a cheap house? Should I let my son ...

Last week my Lunch Bunch Buddy and I had a surprising success visiting one of Wichita Falls’ Mexican restaurants, so this week we decided to try our hand at another. It’s a restaurant we pass ...

El Fenix Mexican Restaurant, Signature Baking Company and FreshPoint are joining forces for a Market Pop-Up today (Tuesday, April 21) from 4:30-7 p.m. at El Fenix Casa Linda, 255 Casa Linda Plaza in ...

A Wichita Falls Mexican restaurant suddenly shuttered its doors Sunday morning, reportedly without giving employees any advance notice. El Fenix, a North Texas chain with restaurants mostly in the ...