{"id":333540,"date":"2026-06-12T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333540\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:16:32","slug":"mexican-restaurant-in-dallas-creates-the-world-cup-torta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333540\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican restaurant in Dallas creates the World Cup torta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if the bread for your next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/2025\/01\/24\/mexico-city-is-the-capital-of-tortas-and-we-have-a-piece-of-that-in-dallas-fort-worth\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Mexican torta<\/a> were shaped like a soccer ball? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Mexican restaurant in Dallas created a torta to commemorate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/world-cup\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">2026 World Cup<\/a>, and the unique feature is its soccer ball-shaped bread. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>El Rinc\u00f3n del D.F., a restaurant in northwest Dallas, launched its World Cup Torta, which is filled with guacamole, grilled beef or chicken, melted cheese and lettuce. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to combine local flavors while still preserving the Mexican style of traditional tortas,\u201d said Jessica McGregor, co-owner of the restaurant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For $17.99, customers can order this special 6-inch torta, which will be available through the end of the World Cup on July 19. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ball-embossed bread can be used not only for the World Cup Torta but any other torta on the menu at no extra charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was something we created with this major event in mind \u2014 one our city will be a part of,&#8221; McGregor said. &#8220;We wanted to join in the celebration and want everyone to feel that festive spirit that will be in the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To make the soccer ball, McGregor enlisted the help of a designer who used a 3D printer to create a dough mold, which they then took to the baker who makes all the bread for their cakes. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The menu includes the classic Cuban torta (with a little bit of everything), the Argentine torta (with breaded beef cutlet and sausage), the Brazilian\u00a0torta (with pork leg, sausage and ham) and the Alemana (German) torta (with breaded beef cutlet and ham). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What makes this business distinct is that its\u00a0tortas are modeled after the street tortas sold in Mexico City, which are large and feature multiple-ingredient combinations. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>El Rinc\u00f3n del D.F. is located at 2900 Walnut Hill Lane,\u00a0#202, Dallas. <a href=\"https:\/\/elrincondeldf.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">elrincondeldf.com<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What if the bread for your next Mexican torta were shaped like a soccer ball? \u00a0 A Mexican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3691,102,104,103,104167,87998,91781,88951,89307],"class_list":["post-333540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-fifa-world-cup","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-mexican-food","tag-tp-northwest-dallas","tag-tp-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}