Each week, we spotlight a “hidden-gem” restaurant in the Fort Worth area that you, our readers, recommend checking out.
These local, mom-and-pop restaurants may not be the biggest or fanciest in town. But the food is delicious, the service is friendly and the price is right.
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El Garambullo Mexican Restaurant ($-$) | Hurst
▪ Where is this restaurant? 109 W. Harwood Road, which is in the Woods Crossing strip center at the corner of Norwood Drive in Hurst.
▪ What our readers recommend about El Garambullo: “Very fresh ingredients, bright decor and outstanding service all make for a great non-chain Mexican restaurant!”
▪ What else to know: Other reviewers who have tried El Garumbullo have described it as a truly authentic, friendly and unpretentious family-run restaurant that opened about two years ago with “nice people serving really good food for really good prices, especially in today’s world.” Several folks also recommend trying the margaritas.
There’s nothing flashy on the restaurant’s website, but a few highlights on the breakfast/lunch/dinner menu include tacos for $2.49; four enchiladas in green or red sauce ($12.49); various grilled shrimp, chicken and beef plates and fajitas; and molcajete (grilled chicken, beef, chorizo and shrimp, typically with cheese, cactus, onions and homemade sauce, served in a traditional stone bowl) for $26.99. Pozole ($9.99) and menudo ($11.99) are served weekends only.
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El Garumbullo Mexican Restaurant is at 109 W. Harwood Road, in the Woods Crossing strip center at the corner of Norwood Drive in Hurst. Courtesy of El Garumbullo
El Garumbullo has 4.2 stars on Yelp with some rave reviews. A Fort Worth diner posted:
“Pazole 10/10!!!!!!! The best I’ve ever had and i eat a LOT of Mexican food. Hole in the walls only. Food came out fresh and piping hot! The green hot sauce was my favvvv. Super spicy but amazing. Loved everything about this place. I also tried their fajita tacos on the side. Greaaaat flavor.”
Another Yelper from Dallas described El Garumbullo as “kind of the anti-chain restaurant” with friendly table service and fresh, authentic food:
“The tacos and enchiladas were both amazing. No ground beef in their tacos just actual fajita meat. The ambiance and atmosphere is more minimalist There are some good art pieces on the wall and they go with their more traditional Mexican flare. It isn’t the chain restaurant that has thousands of random signs and kitschy objects hanging from the walls.”
Hours are Sunday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-11 p.m.
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Matt Leclercq is senior managing editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He previously was an editor at USA Today in Washington, national news editor at Gatehouse Media in Austin, and executive editor of The Fayetteville (NC) Observer. He’s a New Orleans native.