Impeccable Italian food with beautiful atmosphere provided by the view overlooking a small well landscaped pond. Menu emphasizes northern varieties focusing on cheese cream sauces as opposed to tomato based. Expect a crowd an most nights.

Some of the best TexMex in Dallas. The usual fare: enchilladas, tacos, fajitas, rellenos etc. All done to perfection. Famous for the Dallas Morning News photo of new (at the time) Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his soon to be new head coach Jimmy Johnson enjoying a meal and a couple of beers together with a autographed picture of Tom Landry on the wall of their booth. Mia's is/was Tom Landry's favorite restaurant and he was fired by Jones the day after the picture was taken.

A Dallas staple of French cuisine. Food & presentation excellent although service sometimes shakey. Very cramped seating and noise detracts from the experience.

A bit more upscale than most TexMex eaterys. Food is a bit more upscale also. Standard fare, better prepared than average. If you're in Plano, great. But not worth the drive from Dallas with so many good choices there.

One of the last drive-in (curb service) restaurants in Dallas. Unique burgers with everything except lettuce. No. 5 Special includes lettuce and is a favorite of many. Tasty tater tots. When are all the other burger joints going to learn what Keller's has known for a long time-that poppy seed buns add real class to a hamburger.

No reason not to have fresh baked bread in your house if you live near a La Madeleine. Several varieties of coffee offered sure to hit the spot. Excellent Caesar salad and tomato basil soup to die for. Other sandwiches, tarts, etc. all very good.

Actually a grocery, Kuby's is an outstanding place for German dishes. One of the best meat markets in Dallas offering prime to the public.

Nautical atmosphere somewhat reminiscent of seafood houses in the 50's & 60's. Admirable standard seaffod selections, well prepared and presented. Some dishes have a Cajun influence but Galveston Island seems too smart to go head to head with Pappadeaux. Live entertainment on weekends.

Long time upper Greenville staple. Always crowded. Live piano. A very upscale TGI Friday's/Bennigan's. Food always excellent with pasta dishes a standout. One of the best bars in Dallas with supurb selection of single malt scotch, brandy, cognac, and Ports.

Gilbert's trys to be a Bagelstein's and misses. Matzo ball soup good, unless you've tried Bagelstein's. Rueben special good, unless you've tried Bagelstein's. Lox & bagel plate good, unless you've tried Bagelstein's. Get the picture? At least Gilbert's is more centrally located than Bagelstein's.

Some may remember when it was nothing but a shack on Lover's. Then Harvey opened the first 'designer' icecream shop in Dallas next door. Then there were locations on Forest, in Garland, Carrollton, on Central Expressway. Now there's just the original (location) and and charges by D Magazine that Goff's is one of the dirtiest restaurants in Dallas with some of the gruffest service. Most people don't care. Goff's still grinds its own meat daily. Serves pattys thick enough to sink your teeth into and is one of the last 'hamburger' joints in Dallas to charcoal broil their burgs (see Del's Charcoal Burger). Give me a hicory smoke sauce with onions & pickles & a healthy dose of Tabasco. Salute a 10 foot bronze of Lenin as you enter or exit. Harvey's (a radical right winger) tribute to the fall of Communism.

Good run of the mill Tex Mex. Certainly no Herrera's but much better than Pancho's buffet. Shhhhhh! Cantina Laredo less than a mile east on Beltline.

(Rating applys to Sunday brunch only) What has to be the most spectacular Sunday brunch in Dallas. More manned food stations than a single person could possibly visit and live: omlets, roast, prime rib, lamb, turkey, lobster Newburg, lox, caviar (not the really good stuff) and all the sushi you can eat. Flowing champagne.

Long time lower Greenville stalwart. Intimate dark atmosphere the closest your will get to an underground French bistro this side of the Atlantic. Blackboard menu loaded with French country dishes. Don't miss the mushroom soup.

Ordinarily I don't review chains and Griff's is a chain. They've been around in this area longer than McDonald's and McDonald's has never made a hamburger as good as you will get at Griff's. In fact, I have long maintained that McDonald's has never made a hamburger to date, at least what I call a hamburger.

Standard above average Tex Mex fare with all the combinations of chalupas, enchiladas, tacos, flautas, tostados etc. What makes it unique is that they stay open all hours of the night serving Tex Mex. If you're crazy enough or work so late that you're ready for dinner at 3:00AM, this is your place. (Don't get shot or mugged on the way out to your car).

Still one of the best sushi experiences in Dallas. Geisha house atmoshpere. Live piano some nights. Supurb food and service.

Excellent Q. Some of the leanest brisket (although still moist) in Dallas. Sandwiches served on white bread instead of bun. Sauce of the thin vinegary variety as opposed to the thick tomato kind in north Dallas.

In business for years, along with Hall's, Williams, & Babe's one of the last fried chicken joints with memories of Youngblood's. Eat your heart out Popeye & Colonel!

Very elegant and reasonably priced, Henry Chen's gives you the same very good standard variety Chinese food in an upscale atmosphere with out an upscale price. Gorgeous black marble entry. Try the twice cooked beef.