Dallas Frozen Margarita appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Frozen margarita · Dallas
A blended mixture of tequila, triple sec and lime juice served in a salt-rimmed glass from machines that run all day in Tex-Mex restaurants. Dallas claims the 1971 invention of the machine-blended frozen margarita.
Dallas restaurateur Mariano Martinez claims to have invented the first frozen margarita machine in 1971 at his restaurant Mariano's, adapting a 7-Eleven Slurpee machine to dispense a pre-blended margarita. The machine is in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. The frozen margarita subsequently spread from Dallas to every Tex-Mex restaurant in the United States.
Where to eat in Dallas:
- Mariano's Hacienda Ranch
- El Fenix
- Herrera's Cafe
- Mia's Tex-Mex