Tradicion

4334 Lemmon Avenue

Dallas, TX, 75219

(at Herschel in Oak Lawn)

Phone: 214-520-5974

Ricky Avila, majordomo of the beloved, family-run Avila’s Mexican Restaurant on Maple, branches out into upscale traditional Mexican. The food is a neat blend of rustic and upscale, with fish and prime beef side by side with tacos al pastor, a soft corn tortilla filled with pork sliced extra-thin and topped with fresh pineapple. He loves sopa de fideo, the Mexican soup with broken vermicelli pasta, so that’s on the menu, as are sopes, the little masa pizza-ettes topped with beef, chicken, pork, lettuce-and-tomato, and crème fraiche. A ceviche bar fills the gap between lunch and dinner, and he has a whole collection of funky chandeliers to dress up the space.