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Flag Raised: The Nostalgic Tastes of Ft. Worth’s Pancho’s Mexican Buffet

10:22 AM EDT on August 26, 2025

Way back in 2013, I submitted my first-ever restaurant review for The Lost Ogle.

It was a long, almost endless piece that paid glorious tribute to the Pancho's Mexican Buffet on I-240 and Penn, and its endless supply of cheese enchiladas, chile rellenos, flautas, and all the other Tex-Mex standards that were all only one flag raise away.

Although I thought my writing would pack the place like a basket of fresh chips, leaving hungry readers waiting in lines and out the door, it apparently had the opposite effect, and the location closed only about a year or two later, leaving me with only fond memories and novelty restaurant glassware…which sadly broke when I got married.