McKinney | February 2023

DINING FEATURE

BY CHRISTOPHER GOODWIN

3 DISHES TO TRY 1 The enchilada dinner ($14.36) comes with two or three enchiladas, rice and beans. 2 The sizzling fajita skillet ($23.75) is served with a choice of meat, grilled onions and bell peppers. The dish comes with guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, charro beans, rice and our tortillas. 3 The Cowboy Chicken Fried Steak ($16.86) is fried, smothered with chile con carne, and topped with sauteed onions and cheddar cheese.

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Two Senoritas Mexican Restaurant & Cantina McKinney eatery oers tradition with a twist B eginning in Mexico, Two Senoritas Mexican Restaurant & Cantina has the familiarity the Mount Pleasant location experiences, but once Two

Juan Mercado is the general manager of Two Senoritas in McKinney.

Thursday. The restaurant is also involved with the McKinney Chris- tian Academy, and every so often the academy’s jazz band comes to play on the patio. The restaurant features tradi- tional Texas dishes with an added spin, such as the Cowboy Chicken Fried Steak, which is a standard chicken-fried steak topped with chile con carne, sauteed onions and cheddar cheese, and served with a side of rice and beans. Two Senori- tas is also known for its margaritas. “I tell my customers, ‘[If] you don’t like them, I’ll buy,’” Mercado said. “That’s how condent I am in our food.”

Two Senoritas Mexican Restaurant & Cantina 1222 N. Central Expressway, McKinney 214-548-4182 www.facebook.com/twosenoritasmckinney Hours: Mon.-Tue. closed, Wed.-Thu. 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Senoritas gains more traction in McKinney he plans to open two to three more locations around the area. “The biggest shock was the fact that when we got here, we didn’t have customers,” Mercado said. “I’m used to opening the door and people just owing through. At rst it was OK, because we were at a new spot, but we have to gure out a way to stand out so we do a lot of stu with the city.” Mercado said he plans to have the restaurant host live music and karaoke on the patio, possibly every

transcended four generations. Juan Mercado, general manager of the McKinney location, said the family-owned restaurant has stayed true to its roots since its conception from his great-grandparents’ home. The Two Senoritas in McKinney follows two other locations that settled in northeast Texas. Another concept from the family is called Papa Nachos, which is an explor- ative venture in Pittsburgh to dier- entiate between the Two Senoritas counterparts, Mercado said. Mercado said the restaurant lacks

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