Mar 16, 2026 | 12:45 pm
A new Mexican buffet restaurant has just debuted in Garland: Hacienda Buffet is now open at 1480 W Buckingham Rd., in the Northstar Plaza center at the southwest corner of Garland Ave., serving an all-you-can-eat Mexican dining experience for lunch and dinner, starting at 10 am.
The restaurant takes over what was most recently a location of Del Rancho Grill (which relocated), but was previously a Pancho’s Mexican Buffet. Pancho’s is the buffet chain founded in El Paso in the late 50s, forced to close most of its locations more than a decade ago. A couple of locations remain, but its demise still prompts loads of nostalgia among Pancho’s fans to this very day.
Spotting an opportunity, entrepreneurial businessman Jose Becerra opened the first Hacienda Buffet in 2016 in Grand Prairie, featuring authentic Mexican food as well as Tex-Mex in a festive setting. They’ve since opened two more locations in Carrollton and Fort Worth (which also boasts a big event space)…