I'm afraid we have another dead restaurant to report on. Developed as part of Lone Star Pavilion , On the Border Mexican Cafe opened in late summer 1997, replacing part of Texas 707 (a few buildings were torn down, notably the old Charli location). Although opened after the golden days of when it was a great Tex-Mex restaurant even for Houston standards, it became another standby in College Station. Even after the fanfare wore off and it became one of those "wow, it's still open" places like Casa Olé was (the Bryan one remains, though is newer), On The Border survived through COVID, past Taco Cabana and its follow-up Las Palapas (now nothing more than rubble), but it seems to be a victim of a number of other closures that have affected the chain nationwide.
I have no anecdotes about OTB. I can't even tell you definitively if I've eaten there or not; if I did it was a very long time ago.
