Cantina Laredo: What’s Vegetarian Editorial Review

Cantina Laredo flags vegetarian and vegan dishes with icons and keeps a separate plant-based menu for guests who ask. Frisco’s restaurant at 1125 Legacy Drive, near The Star and Legacy West, stands in for a Mexican chain with ten locations across Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, and Texas. Consolidated Restaurant Operations runs the brand, and the Frisco page calls it an upscale Mexican restaurant with a modern twist. Fajitas, steaks, and seafood anchor the kitchen. Vegetarians have full meals to choose.

Icons on the core menu flag signature dishes, vegetarian dishes, vegan dishes, and dishes that come in a gluten-free version. Vegetarian icons are few but useful. Start with the Quesadilla ($11.50), which is Monterey Jack, green onions, and tomato. Espinaca enchiladas ($14.50) pair sautéed spinach, Monterey Jack, and mushrooms under a sour cream poblano sauce, and they arrive with beans and rice.

Vegans get Impossible meat. Impossible Tacos come with vegan cheddar, lettuce, tomato, pico de gallo, and roasted tomatillo salsa in corn tortillas (three for $19, or two at lunch for $14). At lunch you can also order the Impossible Bowl: cilantro-lime rice, black beans, corn, jalapeño, pico de gallo, and cilantro for $14.

Plant-based is where the options multiply. That menu lists Vegan Enchiladas with roasted red peppers, poblano, mushrooms, artichokes, spinach, and black beans ($13), Impossible Nachos ($12.75), a Black Bean Quesadilla with vegan cheddar ($12.75), Portabella Fajitas ($19.25), and a Relleno de Hongos stuffed with mushrooms, vegan cheddar, spinach, asparagus, and roasted corn ($14). Ask your server for it, because the Frisco menu page offers it as its own download.

Skip three dishes. Sopa de Tortilla uses pulled chicken, Queso Laredo adds seared ground sirloin, and the Veracruz enchiladas hold pulled chicken. Chili con Queso ($8.50 cup, $11 bowl) lists only creamy queso, jalapeño, and tomato. It carries no vegetarian icon, so ask your server first. You can split the Top Shelf Guacamole ($13), which a server mixes tableside, as a starter.

Expect a shared kitchen. That’s the catch. Steak and chicken come off the same lines, and the menu asks guests to take allergy concerns to the manager before ordering. I found no published cross-contact policy for vegetarians. Ask the cooks how they prepare your dish.

Beyond lunch and dinner, the Frisco menu page lists brunch, happy hour, bar, and kids menus. Frisco opens Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Happy hour in the bar area runs Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m., and lunch runs daily until 3 p.m. You can reserve a table or order online from the Frisco location page, or call 214-618-9860. Look for Suite 102.

Margaritas fill a full page of the core menu, from the Casa ‘Rita at $12 to the $29 El Diamante. Order the Espinaca enchiladas if you eat dairy, the Vegan Enchiladas if you don’t, and a Casa ‘Rita to go with the guacamole.

Traveling through Dallas? Cantina Laredo also has locations at Love Field and in Terminal B at DFW Airport. Each location writes its own menu, so check the airport versions before you count on the same dishes.