David Surasky and Susan Hutson are regulars at Dart Bowl Cafe, yet they said they have never bowled a game.

Surasky and Hutson have been coming to Butch Martinets’ restaurant ever since he set up shop inside its namesake bowling center, Dart Bowl on Grover Avenue, in the 1990s.

The dining establishment is more than just the snack bar one typically finds at a bowling place, Martinets said: Its menu features about 50 items, including chicken-fried steak, old-fashioned burgers, sandwiches Tex-Mex options and breakfast.

But Dart Bowl Cafe’s bread and butter is its enchiladas, filled with cheese and onions and topped with homemade chili. The enchiladas constitute about 35 percent of the restaurant’s sales, Martinets said.

When then-server Peggy Zamarripa began making enchiladas—with her own recipe—at a previous iteration of Dart Bowl Cafe on Burnet Road in the 1970s, word began to spread about the food at the restaurant within a bowling center.

So much is made about the enchiladas and the restaurant’s other offerings that many customers are like Hutson and Surasky and come in just to eat, Zamarripa said. She said Dart Bowl Cafe makes homemade bread, hand-cuts its fries and cooks its own beans, a key to its success.

“We literally make everything from scratch,” Zamarripa said.

Martinets said he has made sure over the restaurant’s 46 years in business that quality never falters.

“We always try to be consistent,” he said. “You come in; we want you to be happy.”

Dart Bowl Cafe also features a full bar. Its selection of 28 beers is all under $4 with the highest-priced beers consisting of craft brews, such as Austin Beerworks and Live Oak products, at $3.75.

Twelve-ounce cans of Pearl beer sell for $2. Customers pay $2.85 for well drinks.

Did you know?

Dart Bowl and Dart Bowl Cafe were among the Texas film sites for 2013 movie “Boyhood.” The film was shot over 12 years and features actors Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.