FORT WORTH
An Arlington restaurant once featured on TV’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” a Hurst relaunch of an old-time Tex-Mex favorite and a 60-year-old backroad barbecue restaurant are among the latest North Texas restaurants to close in the vise-like grip of high food prices and the economic downturn.
Taste of Europe, an Eastern European restaurant praised by TV host Guy Fieri as one of Arlington’s “best treasures”; Pulido’s Kitchen & Cantina, the Hurst location only; and Loco Coyote Grill, a landmark on a winding farm road southwest of Glen Rose, lead a list of at least eight restaurants closing or already closed…