You don’t have to go to the country or the zoo to see wild animals; there are lizards in downtown buildings, gators in the creeks, and deer in the parking lots.
Portillo’s, 4200 S Cooper St, Arlington. 682-318-9015. 10:30am-10:30pm Sun-Thu, 10:30am-11pm Fri-Sat. From a single hot dog stand in Chicago in 1963, Portillo’s has kind of become Big Hot Dog, with 70 locations in several states. Now including Texas, Arlington specifically and not too far from my house. The chain’s