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Thrillist Dallas
Monday October 3, 2011
Bistro 31
A dream location for a man already living the dream
87 Highland Park Village; Highland Park
Some people spend an entire successful career dreaming of the one thing they haven't done -- like how the dramatic actor Dane Cook has always yearned to make a comedy. Finally opening a long-sought HP Village spot after decades as a leading restaurateur: Alberto Lombardi, whose Bistro 31 soft opens today.
Opened up by window arches extending from the floor to a canvas-covered, exposed-beam ceiling, B-31 borrows from Spanish, French, and Italian Mediterranean culinary and aesthetic styles, with Murano glass chandeliers, deco-esque marble-and-chrome tables, and original paintings from local French expat Jacques Lamy, whose merging of classical training with Dallas's energy could be called "Fina Art".
The menu's been assembled by ex-Mansion exec sous-chef Eric Brandt, and kicks off with apps like ham-and-gruyere galette, escargot w/ crispy pork belly, and a fricassee of walnut w/ chicken, mushrooms, and walnut pistou, a close enough cousin to pesto that they probably shouldn't get married.
Heavier stuff runs (very slowly) from Torchio pasta (with dungeness crab & lemon confit), to Kobe steak frites (balsamic cippolini, Provençal aioli), to a roasted black cod accompanied by fingerling potato salad with 'shrooms and mustard sauce, which the Colonel must've drank plenty of before doing it in the library, with a candlestick.
The back-lit, marble-topped wood bar gets the libations going with numbers like the "Torino" (Cocchi vermouth, absinthe, bitters), the "Juniper Flower" (Old Tom Gin, St Germain, g-fruit juice, bitters, Prosecco), and the raspberry vodka/Creme Yvette "Killing Thyme" -- which is really what aspiring comedian Dane Cook is doing with all these serious roles that don't indulge audiences with even one laugh.
They'll be serving up breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week; check 'em out here
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