National Chili Day is today, and even if fake holidays are silly and winter s bite left us almost as quickly as it arrived, it’s still a good time to eat a bowl of chili in Dallas. (In Texas, any day is a good day for chili.) I myself like to celebrate Texas Independence Day, March 3, every year with the state dish of Texas.
Dallas has a history with this particular dish and there’s no shortage of restaurants that serve it.
National restaurant chain Chili’s was born in Dallas, and their bowl isn’t half bad. Tolbert’s in Grapevine offers the bowl of red that launched the Terlingua Chili Festival. Plano’s Holy Grail Pub has served their nice-and-spicy ghost pepper chili for over a decade.