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Anamia's Tex Mex

Weeknight family Tex-Mex and lunch specials.

Open until 10 PM $$ Family FriendlyCasual VibesLocal Favorite
5.6/10
№ 44 on the List Issue № 140 · 9 wks · Scored by Rudy Tellez Full List →
№ 01 · The Brief

Coppell's answer to combination-plate comfort

Every suburb keeps one Tex-Mex room as its default, and Coppell's is Anamia's Tex Mex on Sandy Lake Road. The move here is the classic one: a booth, the chip basket, cheese enchiladas, and no second-guessing. This is not a room chasing a trend cycle, and the record makes clear that Coppell does not want it to be one.

The menu holds the canon and adds one quiet advantage. Cheese enchiladas are the plate a Tex-Mex default gets judged on and the standing order here. Chicken fajitas cover the table-for-four dinner run the suburb actually uses this room for. The breakfast burrito flags the brunch lane, which most Tex-Mex rooms in reach never bother to run, and the lunch specials do the weekday volume work that keeps a suburban dining room alive between weekends.

The record reads like a room that knows its job. Comfortable booths that tables remember, servers who stay attentive when the room fills, and the honest note that when it gets busy, it gets busy, because the whole suburb shares the same default. Doors run eleven to nine-thirty most nights and to ten on Friday and Saturday, which is exactly the spread a family room needs and nothing more.

The value math is the point. Coppell sits a solid drive from the intown rooms, and nobody needs to make that drive for enchiladas done right. A neighborhood Tex-Mex that holds its canon, keeps its prices sane, and seats the family without a production is worth more to its zip code than another concept room is to the city. Anamia's Tex Mex is that math, working.

№ 02 · What to Order

The order, from the record

№ 03 · Insider Tip
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Weekday lunch is the easy window for the specials; weekend dinner pulls the whole suburb, and the wait comes with it.

Rudy Tellez · Top of Dallas
№ 04 · The Verdict

What earns the 5.6

01
Coppell neighborhood standby

It reads as a family-owned Tex-Mex room built for the Sandy Lake Road neighborhood, not for spectacle.

02
Breakfast does the heavy lifting

The breakfast burrito and weekend brunch program carry more weight here than the dinner combination plates.

03
No frills, no pretense

Moderate prices and a straightforward enchilada-and-fajita menu suggest a kitchen that executes the standards rather than reinvents them.

The record

Insider Score history

On the List 9 wks Current № 44
How we score

The Insider Score is our own 10-point editorial rating, set by the writer who covers the room. It is never an average of other sites’ stars, and it is never for sale. It weighs three things:

01Track record

How highly a kitchen rates, across how many diners, over how long.

02Consistency

Whether recent diners still agree with the long-term verdict.

03Distinction

What the kitchen does that its category does not.

Anamia's Tex Mex earns a 5.6, solid on our scale for Mexican in Dallas.
Rudy Tellez
Rudy Tellez
Guides Editor

Rudy runs the dish-by-dish beat across Dallas, from the strip-mall taquerias to the marquee dining rooms, building best-of lists that send you to the exact table. His rankings begin with the reviews and end with an order you can place tonight.

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