There’s one tricky thing about telling the stories of Dallas-Fort Worth’s oldest restaurants: Very few of the men and women who started them are still alive.
One of the region’s oldest restaurateurs is 91-year-old Gene Dunston, whose Dallas restaurants Dunston’s Steak House and Gene’s Wheel In date back 68 years. Dunston is a risk taker. He went broke three times in the first year he opened his first restaurant, he says. That was 72 years ago.
One of the region’s oldest restaurateurs is 91-year-old Gene Dunston, whose Dallas restaurants Dunston’s Steak House and Gene’s Wheel In date back 68 years. Dunston is a risk taker. He went broke three times in the first year he opened his first restaurant, he says. That was 72 years ago.
