3015 Oak Lawn Ave.
Dallas, Tx 75219
The Landmark is a restaurant inside another landmark. The Melrose hotel...A brick Chicago style apartment hotel designed by Dallas architect C.D. Hill. It has been a visual and social focal point for the Oak Lawn neighborhood since its opening in 1924.
Several years ago it was completely renovated.
The other cool place inside is a piano bar called The Library. It's literally set up to look like a library. I used to go there all the time in the 90’s.. which is another long story... ANYWAY, The Landmark.
This is a beautiful, tastefully decorated place. It reminds me of Chez Quis, that snooty french restaurant in "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off" where he poses as Abe Froman the sausage king. Lol
I thought it was oddly empty, but that might be common on Tuesdays.
Jennifer was our server, and she's excellent. If you go, request Jennifer!
This is copied directly from their website: “The Warwick Melrose Hotel, Dallas culinary team has been honored with the AAA Four Diamond award the prestigious DiRoNA award and the Wine Spectator award.”.. so.. .the food is award winning! Word!
Drinks to start. We're usually needing a drink by the time Tuesday rolls around.
Valentina and I both had their special, which is an appetizer, an entrée, a dessert, and a glass of wine for 30 dollars.
To start, Valentina had the Tuna tartare, and I had the wedge salad. The wedge is bacon, tomatoes and blue cheese dressing over a lettuce wedge. Anything that has bacon in it ranks pretty high up there in my book.
Val can tell you about the tuna, because I don't do raw tuna, thanks.
For dinner we both had the Angus filet, with potato pierogi, roasted mushrooms and a cabernet demi glace. OMG.. lovely.
We had the Penfolds Merlot to go with that.
Pierogi. One of my favorites. Seriously. I can eat my weight in these things. These were good but not quite what I am used to. They’re usually made of potato dough and these were pasta.
Dessert was the “My adult cupcake” for both of us.
It’s a chocolate cupcake filled with vanilla ice cream and topped with chocolate mousse. This was wonderful chocolately heaven!
Throughout the evening Jennifer was bringing us little things to taste. One she called an "amuse-bouche" Which was a little spoonful of fruits and bacon if I remember... something like this:
This was along the same line.. a little after dinner macaroon.
All in all, a wonderful experience except for the muzac. Which. Was. Bad.
Really bad.
Really REALLY bad.
Like A Summer Place and Dr. Zhivago, bad.
Like 60 years out of date, bad.
Can you tell we thought it was bad? ;)
Afterwards we weren’t ready to leave so we headed to the Library for a couple drinks, and bribed the piano player to play a couple songs for us. I think it was Erik Barnes. :)
The Landmark.. 4 1/2 out of 5 stars.
Afterwards we went back to Valentina's office, where I had the brilliant idea to add more RAM to her laptop. Not realizing the one that needed replacing was in the middle of the machine and I'd completely have to take it apart.
It's done though! :)
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