The Story Behind Beto's Mexican Restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas

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Let's go back to circa 1993. In an old abandoned home cooking "joint", my family started our first Beto's Mexican Restaurant and Catering in Grand Prairie, Texas. If you're wondering where the name Beto's came from, well, it's a nickname for my Dad, Humberto, and me, Albert.

 

Ok, back to the story. So it was always my Dad's dream to open his own Mexican restaurant. He'd worked in the Mexican food industry for over thirty years. One day in the summer of 1993, Mom and Dad come home and say, "We've got a Mexican restaurant!"

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What? Wait. We? Well good for --> him, I was on my way to North Texas University after finishing up my basics at Mountain View Community College in Dallas. I was going to join my brother in pursuit of my degree in "partying".

 

So my parents take me up to OUR Mexican restaurant in Grand Prairie off of SW 3rd St and Freetown ...and guess what? IT WAS A DUMP! No, not one of those cool Anthony Bourdain's "hole in the wall" joints, nope, a certified DUMP! Yea, we tried to fix it up but it was like putting lipstick on a pig. Picture pink booths and baby blue mini-blinds. We didn't have enough money to re-decorate and the previous tenant was named "Big Momma's Country Kitchen". Oh the horror!

 

Mom kept her day job, Rick (my brother) was still attending UNT finishing his degree in "partying" and I'm working away 100 hours a week wondering what I've done with my life. I was having a midlife crisis at nineteen. You guessed it, I didn't go off to college.

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But Dad.....my Dad. He never showed doubt, he never showed fatigue, and he just kept "plugging" away. He is the hardest working man I know. He knew what I couldn't at the age of nineteen. If we just kept serving our authentic family Mexican recipes, we'd succeed.

 

Fast forward a few years, my brother comes aboard and things start to take off. The word gets out about our Grand Prairie location and our made from scratch Mexican food, and this little "lipsticked pig" starts to look more and more like you might want to kiss her.

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In 2002 we built our flagship Mexican restaurant you see below. All because my Dad never had a doubt. My Dad, myself, and my brother all still work at this Grand Prairie location.

 

So if you're visiting our little town of Grand Prairie and happened to google "restaurants near me" or "Mexican food Grand Prairie", come out and join us today. You'll be glad you did.

 

 

Thank you,

 

Albert Sanchez
President / CEO
Beto's Mexican Restaurant and Catering

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