Tex Mex Cheese Enchiladas Chili Gravy appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Fort Worth Tex-Mex cheese enchiladas with chili gravy · Fort Worth
Corn tortillas filled with sharp yellow cheddar, rolled and blanketed in a brick-red chili gravy made from dried chiles, beef tallow, and beef broth. Served with rice and refried beans in Fort Worth.
Tex-Mex cheese enchiladas with chili gravy trace back to the early twentieth century, when Mexican-American restaurateurs in Dallas and Fort Worth adapted interior Mexican cooking to the palates of Anglo ranch workers and cattlemen. The chili gravy format, distinct from mole or tomatillo sauce, became the dominant style across the DFW metroplex and defined the combination-plate era of Texas Mexican restaurants. Joe T. Garcia's, open since 1935 in Fort Worth's Near Northside, kept the tradition alive through the postwar decades, offering a simple fixed menu of enchiladas or fajitas served on the same sprawling garden patio where generations of Fort Worth families have marked milestones.
Where to eat in Fort Worth:
- Joe T. Garcia's
- Esperanza's