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D Magazine

Purepecha awarded Best Tasting Menu by D Magazine
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WFAA

There are so many options for dining in North Texas! D Magazine’s December issue features the best of the best with the top 50 restaurants in Dallas.
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D Magazine

Regino Rojas has served food in this Main Street space under many names and concepts over the years, most recently La Resistencia. But the Purépecha tasting menu, open by reservation only, serves some of the most awe-inspiring food in Dallas.
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Texas Monthly

At the new drinks-focused addition to his taco empire, chef Regino Rojas puts an imaginative, often multinational spin on casual Mexican fare.
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Netflix

Many of the most popular taco styles have long, rich, little-known histories. Explore some of them in this eye-opening, mouth-watering food adventure.
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USA Today

Located in an alley that was once cutoff from public access, this Deep Ellum cantina comes by way of James Beard-nominated chef Regino Rojas of Revolver Taco Lounge and La Resistencia tasting room.

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D Magazine

Regino Rojas expands his Deep Ellum Mexican food empire with the all-inclusive Revolver Gastro Cantina.

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DALLAS OBSERVER

Revolver Taco Lounge Gastro Cantina voted best New Restaurant in the Dallas Observer best of Dallas 2022 issue

This Deep Ellum gastro cantina represents the best of local food. It’s got grit and panache. James Beard-nominated chef Gino Rojas writes his own rules here at his newest concept, which is just next door to his original taco restaurant.

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TEXAS MONTHLY

Dallas’s Regino “Gino” Rojas stands out in Texas for his wildly creative food and his willingness to take risks (who says you can’t open a new restaurant concept during a pandemic?).

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SAMANTHA BROWN’S PLACES TO LOVE

The menu at chef Regino Roja’s Revolver Taco Lounge is delicious, but what you’ll find at Purapecha Restaurant is downright special 

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JAMES BEARD AWARD

JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION

Today, we are announcing the 2025 Restaurant and Chef Award nominees, as well as the Impact, Lifetime Achievement, and Humanitarian of the Year Award honorees. Winners will be revealed at the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards ceremony on Monday, June 16 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

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TEXAS MONTHLY

After a year-long hiatus, a policies and procedures audit, and an ongoing pandemic, the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for the 2022 James Beard Awards. The organization’s awards are considered the highest honors for restaurants and individuals in the food and hospitality industry.

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D MAGAZINE

And Your Dallas James Beard Award Semifinalists Are…

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KERA.ORG

Here Are The 6 Dallas Semifinalists For The 2019 James Beard Awards

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KERA—February 26, 2018

Regino Rojas has been named the sole semifinalist from North Texas for the 2018 James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Southwest. Rojas, the chef and owner of Revolver Taco Lounge in Deep Ellum, joins 11 Texas chefs in the running for the same award.

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Eater.com—February 15, 2018

Today, the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its annual awards, frequently described as the “Oscars of food,” and only one Dallas chef made the long list. Revolver Taco Lounge’s Regino Rojas is Dallas’ lone entry in this year’s list of semifinalists for a 2018 James Beard Award

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The Dallas Observer

If it was just a small Deep Ellum shopfront hawking tacos, Revolver Taco Lounge would already rank highly on this list

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D Magazine

50 Best Restaurants in Dallas

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Texas Monthly

Taco of the Week: El Holboxqueño at Revolver Taco Lounge

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Food & Drink by D Magazine—Best of Big D 2018

The octopus taco is a thing of beauty, a soft tentacle laid across a tortilla hot off the comal, cloaked with a jalapeño salsa and frizzled leeks. 

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Food & Drink by D Magazine—Best of Big D 2017

Fresh masa tortillas, golden disks pressed to order in front of you, are the ideal foundation for the small but stellar taco lineup at this new Deep Ellum taqueria.

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Thrillist—Top 31 Best Mexican Restaurants in America

Revolver Taco Lounge is of three minds. First, there is the taqueria with several dishes on offer. Think: a curry-soaked frog legs and Thai basil taco, carnitas-style octopus with charred leeks, smoking ceviches…

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Dallas Observer—Best Taqueria of 2018

Dallas may not be known as Taco City, but it should be. Our taqueria scene is diverse and thoughtful, but even with all the competition, there’s no rivaling Revolver Taco Lounge.

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Dallas Observer—Best Hot Dog of 2018

There are only a few places left to get a real street dog. Dallas is a hot dog ghost town, while major cities around the country have dogs pinned to sidewalks. Regino Rojas’ Revolver Taco Lounge has the most emotionally moving street meat in the city right now…

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Dallas Magazine—August, 2018

We first ranked the 50 best restaurants in Dallas in 2011. Since then, the scene has changed so rapidly that it’s required us update it every three months. Which is what we’re now doing.

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Dallas News—July 25, 2018

Deep Ellum nightlife fixture Jon Daniel knows this. That’s why, when his kids were growing up, he would take them to independent, family-owned taquerias around Dallas to introduce them to the magic of al pastor, bistek and barbacoa.

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Dallas News—June 12, 2018

The habanero pepper — one of the hottest chile varieties — is the signature chile of the Yucatan. “It has a nice kick to it, so it’s often accompanied by something sweet,” says chef Rojas. At Revolver Taco, Rojas slips habanero bits into a Yucatecan-style ceviche, taming its firepower with juicy bits of orange.

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GQ—April 24, 2018

It’s worth bringing enough friends to this Deep Ellum taco joint that you can order the whole menu. But if you must choose, go for the one filled with Michoacán octopus “carnitas”: slow-cooked, crisped with butter on the flat-top grill, and served in a tortilla with fried leek and jalapeño salsa.

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Dallas Observer—November 2, 2017

There are only a few places left to get a real street dog. Dallas is a hot dog ghost town while major cities around the country have dogs pinned to sidewalks. There are carts that griddle in the open breeze, squiggle them with mustard and pile on butter-soft onions while we’re gasping for hot dog air.

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360 West Magazine—October 2016

The taqueria menu is served all day, with taco choices from carne asada, shrimp, squash and lobster to rib-eye, octopus and duck.

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Texas Monthly—November 17, 2015

Revolver’s variety is astonishing, so you’ll want to bring friends along to also order the exquisite pulpo tacos (sautéed octopus layered with pan-fried leek and topped with a velvety jalapeño salsa), huitlacoche tacos (dark and dusky corn fungus)

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Texas Monthly—April 3, 2015

It’s difficult to select a favorite taco at Revolver Taco Lounge. The duck, a medium-rare slice of breast with a band of fat that is augmented with sautéed onion and a slice of roasted poblano alongside deep tomatillo-chile de árbol salsa

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Andrew Zimmern—April 14, 2014

Owned and operated by the Rojas family, Revolver Taco Lounge in Fort Worth serves some of best Michoacán food you can find outside of Mexico….

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