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    Tex-Rican Restaurant

    4.5 (103 reviews)
    InexpensivePuerto Rican
    Open 10:30 am - 3:00 pm

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    Quiet
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    10/10 would recommend! Everyone is so hospitable And the food is delicious and fresh ! I ate most of my food before I could take a picture

    Pork Chop Plate
    Jasmine J.

    This place will NOT disappoint. The food, music and customer service were excellent! The fruit punch, lemonade and passion fruit drinks are made in house daily. They made us feel super welcome. Will definitely be back. Buen provecho!

    Mofongo con carne frita, ensalada, arroz con gandules y yuca alajillo
    Genesis Z.

    Cuando como aquí me siento tan serca de mi hogar muy delicioso, se los recomiendo 100%

    My first time here. The food and the service was amazing! 10/10 would recommend, definitely going back to try more food! Lol

    Mofongo w/carné frites and salad
    Lynn B.

    Like many off-the-beaten-path restaurants the world over, this hole-in-the-wall place in the 440 Plaza has wonderful food and great service. When you've lived around the world as long as we have, you come to know that the hole-in-the-wall places are the BEST places to go. This place does not disappoint. Based on Yelp! reviews alone, we came and tried the carné frites and Mofongo. Absolutely off-the-scale amazing. Based on how the hubby attacked the plate, we WILL be back!

    puerto rican fried pork  - super tender - and a few authentic sides too!
    Big D.

    Another amazing meal at Tex-Rican Authentic and Fresh is an understatement. Try everything here. You won't be disappointed!

    Chicken was good, could have been a bigger portion
    Teisha V.

    Had a good time with my family the food was good, we were sad they ran out of the Penile. It was our first time there and my son liked his white rice and nuggets. Two of my local friends tried something new since it was in town it was my pick. I would recommend this place to at least try.

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    4 months ago

    Cada vez que voy quedo completamente satisfecho , te hacen sentir bien venidos y la comidas Rica y los postres fuera de este mundo

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    7 months ago

    Good food - something different. Food was delicious. A nice change of pace. Super nice staff. I will be back.

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    3 years ago

    Por años uno de los mejores restaurantes boricuas en killeen, buen servicio y ruca comida . Vayan les gustará.

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    2 years ago

    This place is amazing! Yummy! Ans the people are so nice. We always come back ....................

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    Amazing place to eat. The food was great and so was the service. I'm so glad I found this place.

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    3 years ago

    Every time I show up they show out! The food is really good and I'm never disappointed. The employees are always nice and accommodating.

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    3 years ago

    Amazing! Food is excellent, well priced and Portions are very generous. Staff is wonderful. Best place in town.

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    3 years ago

    The best Puerto Rican food outside of the Island ! I can't wait to go back . Everything is freshly made and with delicious flavors

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    6 years ago

    Food that takes me back home. When I'm homesick this is my place of choice is like abuelas cooking.

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    4 years ago

    Comida muy buena, algo costoso pero el staff es amable. Una gema escondida para ese boricua buscando un sabor similar a nuestra isla.

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    4 years ago

    Every time my wife and I visit Killeen, we always stop by this restaurant to enjoy it's delicious entrees. Highly recommend.

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    Puerto Rican & Caribbean Grocery Store - Merenguitos, meringue (in the refrigerated section of the grocery side)

    Puerto Rican & Caribbean Grocery Store

    4.0(37 reviews)
    1.1 mi
    $$

    Pasteles! Pernil! Everything you need for Puerto Rican dishes (and they even sometimes have mavi…read morebark, quenepas, pastel and pastelillo de guayaba, turron, and morcillas)! If you can't find what you're looking for, just ask one of the employees. This grocery store is THE "go to" tiendita for all Boricuas and NewYoricans in Bell County.

    Because my "second family" is Cuban and I have a great affinity for all things Cuban (not just the…read morecigars and the rums) I always have a complex about non-Cubans preparing Cuban like things. There is even a Seinfeld episode on point about this with the Dominicans rolling the crepes. If you don't believe me compare a Romeo y Julieta (DR) to a real one, or any of the other cigar companies that have a DR factory with non-Cuban torcedores to one from the motherland. With the limited reviews of this joint on yelp I was having to read between the lines that the ladies preparing the food were probably not authentic Cubans. But based on the very favorable four to five star reviews of the Cuban sandwich from other yelpers, they seemed to know how to put in work on the gentlesir's favourite panini type class of sandwich so I was sold on giving it the olde "college try" since the prices seemed quite reasonable and I needed to submit receipts for travel reimbursement to my organization that were not handwritten. Just a note for yelpers - the "grocery store" part of the business is actually called Killeen Nutritional Center which has a separate yelp business page and this is the page for the to-go restaurant portion of the biz. I wandered around there for several minutes trying to find the sammich counter until I realized I was at the deli (in the grocery store) and the girl behind the deli counter was actively ignoring me. So I spotted the door behind the registers the other way and walked into the sammich place I wanted to be in. They could really use a sign or something, or workers that will acknowledge your existence and direct you appropriately. I actually know some spanglish so I know enough to be helpful asking where ya boy can obtain his emparedado. There is "prepared food" cafeteria style that most people dining in seemed to be getting so there is a line for that. However if you are gentlesir in for a sammich then you go straight to the register to order it there, pay for it, then you go wait for it to come out. There are also people buying the pastries out of the case at the register which are neither sammiches nor prepared cafeteria style take out, so there is some light confusion and at one time there appeared to be three separate lines of people trying to get it in at the one girl working the one register at the counter. The Cuban comes with Swiss cheese, pork, ham, mustard, pickle, lettuce, tomato, onion, and mayo. Or if you are bi-curious: el cubano (es una balleza tambien) tiene queso suizo, pernil, jamon, mostaza, pepinillo, lechuga, tomate, cebolla, y mayonesa. Homey costs $3.35. You read that right. This is not the best Cuban I have ever had if we are being honest. It was not prepared by authentic Cubans, but they never represented that they were authentic Cubans so we have to temper expectations accordingly and especially at this price point. I have to review the sammich in accord with Antone's last non-chain outpost in the Med Centre who also was not Cuban, but they mastered the non-Cuban art of making Cuban food. I am pretty sure my order ticket they put in to the kitchen said something along the lines of me being a gringo, possibly a puta also but I will never know even though I always assume this is being said behind my back and the main reason why I learned spanglish. This thing came with a Shania Twain sized heaping of mayo. So much mayo. Goddammit I don't even like mayo, that racist stereotype has to end. Meanwhile I love mustard and that was nearly nonexistent. I also love pickles and there was little pickle to speak of. If I knew they were going to go HAM on the mayo I would have just told them to hold it entirely and slide some pickle magic into the sammich in its place - but I would have to be careful that nothing got lost in translation since sliding a pickle into something is a double entendre which we snuck past the censors, just like that lemon party joke. So that is my most useful tip I can give you for your visit, tell them to hold the mayo unless you want six pounds of it on your sammich just ruining everything and your good time. THAT IS NOT HOW A CUBANO IS SUPPOSED TO GO. The meats were extremely dry and I suppose the giant dosing of mayo was an effort to mask that desert dryness, which was exquisitely unsuccessful on me but may have worked its charm better on other diners. I put the sammich on par with Subway quality at best (especially the underwhelming tomato and lettuce quality) but not customizable at your own instruction as Subway is, so you don't need to take any responsibility for the creation of this monstrosity. This was my worst meal on my road trip through this area. However, I am still rewarding them with a three star yelp review (an #upgrayedd of stars taking into account the totality of the circumstances beyond the disappointing sammich) since unlike KMB they printed me a proper receipt I could actually use for reimbursement from my organization.

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    Puerto Rican & Caribbean Grocery Store - The cubano in all his glory. If he was a cigar I would smoke him but he is a sammich so I will eat him. Many ways to live your best life.

    The cubano in all his glory. If he was a cigar I would smoke him but he is a sammich so I will eat him. Many ways to live your best life.

    Puerto Rican & Caribbean Grocery Store - Got that sammich in my hands

    Got that sammich in my hands

    Puerto Rican & Caribbean Grocery Store - Waiting for my order at the table nearest the register. If you aren't getting food from the hoppers at back you just order at the register

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    Waiting for my order at the table nearest the register. If you aren't getting food from the hoppers at back you just order at the register

    Tex-Rican Restaurant - puertorican - Updated May 2026

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