5027 West Lovers Lane
Dallas Texas 75209
214.350.5027
This place is great! It's hard to know where to start..
Ok, first off, from the outside it looks like a crappy little bar.
The food here is excellent, and the place is always packed.
You have to call ahead of time, and making a reservation does NOT get you a table. It gets you a place on the waiting list.
So you make a reservation to go wait. That's how busy it is. lol
We were on time, but we still had to stand in the bar area for about 30 minutes, so we both had a champagne thing while we waited. I think it was a "Beauty School Dropout". Very tasty.
As this was Tuesday night.. I can't imagine the wait time on a weekend.
It's also a tiny little place.. sort of narrow. And the tables are small and packed together. And it's LOUD.
My only real complaint. The place is SO loud, Valentina and I had to shout to hear each other across a table 2 feet wide. It's the loudest restaurant I've ever experienced. And that includes airports and theme parks.
I do not remember what Valentina ate. (Help me out here!)
I had the Coq Au Vin. It was Vincent Price's recipe and it was amazing.
We also split an order of french fries, and an order of 3 jack mac and cheese.
Ok, the mac and cheese gets a paragraph of its own. So far, best mac and cheese I have EVER EATEN. I made a joke that it was so good I wanted to be alone with it for awhile, and she still laughs at me for that. lol
There's definitely sour cream in it...that's part of what makes it so good, I'm sure.
When you go to the ladies room, instead of music, they have Vincent Price on the speakers reciting recipes from his cookbook. That's definitely funny. Obviously I'm not sure what kind of audio is going on in the men's room. :)
For dessert we went a little nuts.. we both got Butterscotch pot du creme in a little glass pot. And I got a home made Ding Dong. Yes, it's as good AND weird as it sounds. lol
And Valentina got something else also, and again I'm not remembering what.
And I took an order of mac and cheese to go.. LOL
3 out of 5 stars. I'd rate it higher if it wasn't so horribly noisy.
The food here is amazing, but I think I would get a To Go meal instead of being subjected to the noise! Seriously, it was really irritating to eat in such a DIN! I hated that noise, AWFUL!
And the No Reservations Thing...when I'm hungry, I really want to eat, not stand around with a cocktail watching other people eat. There are very few seats in the bar, so it feels sort of RUDE and dismissive.
But here are the Good Things: 1. Excellent valet service! 2. Absolutely Perfect Mac And Cheese.
3. Funny Vincent Price soundtrack in the Ladies' Room.
My dinner was the Short Rib, and it was good, not as good as Smoke, but okay.
The Pots du Creme were really just too sweet, and sort of a one-note dessert...Valentina
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