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    Oak Cliff Drinking Diaries

    Why Eno's Pizza Tavern is the best bar in Bishop Arts District

    Jonathan Rienstra
    Sep 6, 2013 | 4:53 pm

    As part of our Neighborhood Eats series, I have been tasked with the unenviable task of writing about the single best bar in Bishop Arts District. Teresa Gubbins got to pick six restaurants, and I can choose only one bar.

    “So what is the best bar in Bishop Arts?” my friend asked me when I told him about this impossible assignment. Trick question, apparently. According to him, there’s no such thing, because Bishop Arts is bereft of any bars. Of course, this ignores places like Oak Cliff Social Club and Ten Bells Tavern.

    The fact that Eno’s has been doing it since 2008, when craft beer in Dallas was a germ of an idea, gives the joint grandfather status.

    One could argue that Ten Bells Tavern is a bar that serves better-than-average bar food just as easily as one could argue that it’s a restaurant with quality taps. Either way, I’m not writing about Ten Bells Tavern.

    Instead, I’m going with what many consider to be one of the best pizza joints in Dallas, which also happens to serve excellent craft beers from across the country.

    Eno’s Pizza Tavern isn’t a bar. I get that. There are two bars in the restaurant, but it is very much a restaurant first. Heck, the upstairs bar doesn’t even have a TV, which is, like, Bars 101.

    Still, any place that serves pizza this good doesn’t need to carry a bunch of beers from Green Flash and Left Hand. Besides the permanent taps of local and national craft beers, Eno’s devotion to nearly 10 seasonal taps promises that each trip brings new discoveries.

    It all sounds a bit tired these days —“Oh, look, 24 taps of craft beer. Yawn.”— but Eno’s decision to offer good beers upon opening paved the way for bars like Common Table and Meddlesome Moth and all the other places that Dallas beer drinkers hold dear.

    The fact that Eno’s has been doing it since 2008, when craft beer in Dallas was a germ of an idea, gives the joint grandfather status. But Eno’s is the cool grandfather who sneaks you a drink at your cousin’s wedding and talks about the war. Which war? Doesn’t matter.

    Bishop Arts, for all the talk of it maybe, just maybe, not being the hot spot in Dallas anymore, is still the kind of walkable neighborhood that eschews the snobbery of Uptown or West Village or the crunchiness of Lower Greenville. Eno’s anchors the neighborhood with its two-story brick building, complete with neon sign and funkier-than-Pottery Barn decor that makes it a place you can’t patronize wearing a Rangers T-shirt.

    Plenty of soft lighting, rich woods, red brick and strategically placed indoor window walls give Eno’s the kind of atmosphere that could make Southern Living’s editors spill mint julep all over their seersucker jackets.

    So, no, Eno’s is not a bar. It’s a pizza tavern that brought in craft beer when the rest of Dallas was beginning to learn that breweries that care more about the beer than the can are worth supporting. For me, that’s enough.

    Eno's Pizza Tavern in Bishop Arts knows that good pizza needs good beer.

     
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    Taco News

    Award-winning Dallas restaurant Taco Y Vino branches out to buzzy 'burb

    Teresa Gubbins
    Jul 1, 2025 | 4:16 pm
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    An award-winning taco restaurant in Dallas is bringing its taco magic to Garland: Taco Y Vino, the innovative gourmet taqueria and casual wine bar in Oak Cliff, is opening a second location in downtown Garland, in a darling storefront at 706 Main St. that was formerly home to Jim's Barber Shop.

    Taco Y Vino is the brainchild of the ultra-charismatic Jimmy Contreras, a hospitality veteran who cut his teeth at Pappas Restaurants then worked for more than 15 years in the wine industry, representing boutique wineries and helping restaurants build their wine lists.

    He developed the original idea of a restaurant doing a fine-dining twist on tacos, along with an affordable wine list, and opened Taco Y Vino in 2018. Its combination of good food and wine at low prices made it an instant favorite.

    "We always want to be affordable — a place you can go daily to grab bottle of wine and tacos, but also nice enough to bring out of town guests," he says.

    The menu features a "three tacos for $14" that lets you mix and match fillings like cochinita pibil (pulled pork braised in bitter orange & achiote), pork carnitas, carne asada, barbacoa, brisket guiso, ahi tuna, tempura catfish or shrimp, chicken tinga with guacamole, black bean & cheese, and fried avocado.

    Shareable dishes include jalapeno poppers stuffed with catfish and shrimp; and avocado "toastadas" — a witty twist on avocado toast, featuring corn tostadas topped with guacamole, pico de gallo, lettuce, and pickled onions.

    They do brunch — but it's every day from 11:30 am-3 pm, with dishes like Brisket Con Huevo, featuring stewed brisket and scrambled eggs on a flour tortilla.

    Everything about the place is much like Contreras himself: approachable, friendly, and fun, and has generated intense goodwill and loyalty for the restaurant among locals and foodies alike. There is no one who does not love Jimmy.

    Jimmy ContrerasJimmy Contreras with a glass of wine.Courtesy

    "Oak Cliff has been amazing to us," Contreras says. "We're so grateful for the support from neighbors, diners, and wine lovers, and we have great employees who give a sense that they're happy to be there, which has definitely been a big part of our success."

    With the original location humming along, Contreras began considering another location. It only took one visit to downtown Garland and he and his business partner Brian White were smitten.

    "We immediately fell in love," he says. "The area has great old buildings and businesses like Intrinsic Brewing, Fortunate Son, Rosalind Coffee, Latham Bakery, plus music-forward places like guitar shops and Dead Wax, the record store. It just felt like a cool place to hang out."

    Garland has been undergoing a major transformation, one that includes a big revitalization of the Downtown Garland Historic District.

    The building they're going into was built in 1928 and they're doing as little as possible to alter the original structure. It's 1300 square feet, with a front and back patio, patio being part of Taco Y Vino's DNA. (They even won a CultureMap Tastemaker Award in 2024 for Best Patio, hoo-rah.)

    "We did remove the stucco wall so that the original brick could come through, and we're putting in doors and windows from that timeframe to match," he says. "We just want to keep it as is."

    The menu will be the same, with one exception.

    "Garland will have not only wine but cocktails," Contreras says. "You would not believe how many people walk in and ask about margaritas. So we'll do a frozen margarita, a paloma, ranch water, a sage margarita on the rocks — but not a full bar."

    Their planned for opening date is the end of summer.

    Contreras' idea when he opened was to have a business where he did not always have to answer to somebody, to not have a boss. "But every person who comes in is my boss," he says. "I think that service ideology is something you can never lose."

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