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Food: 5/5  Vibe: 5/5  Service: 5/5  Value: 5/5  Overall: 5/5

Sevy's celebrates some of the best of Texas culture. No, not in the state fair, honkytonk kind of stereotypical way. Sevy’s is genuine, cultured in a Dallas way, with fabulous food. This is the restaurant to which I’ll bring intelligent visitors to illustrate the quirky, casual, distinctive excellence of Dallas. No pretense despite the location and the luxury. Above all else you are made to feel truly welcome here. Gracious hospitality – you are comfortable in shorts or blue jeans, or a $2k business suit. You'll see families, business deals, dates and obligations. Shirley Temples, light beer, great wine or single malt scotch, the fabulous servers here just want you to be happy and relaxed.

And the food isn't bad either. Yes that's understatement. More precisely, the food has always been wonderful and has fearlessly evolved over many years. Although I will say that the menu on its face tends towards fancy. What is offered on the menu is the best, the brazen, of what the high talent in the kitchen loves to do. The osso bucco is fabulous, as is the game. The duck flautas are a great companion to share over a business scotch. The menu ensures that the North Dallas folks get the freshest fish with the best sauces, and an array of exotic (Texan again) meats. Frankly, the steaks are some the best I’ve had in town, and, to my unsophisticated -- but well exercised -- palette, better than the upscale steak houses like Del Frisco’s and III Forks. The salads are innovative and imaginative (in particular, the spinach and 5 grain salad is unique, healthy and delicious).

But there's a secret, and I hope I don't get into trouble for saying this. If you want to make a modification ... ask. If they can do it they will. The biggest secret … Sevy’s has amazing French fries … and therefore the best steak frites in town.

The bar. Well, a few years back it won an award for the best place to drink an afternoon away. I can see that, and am still trying to find an afternoon to prove it.

So yeah, there’s the amazing food, and the beautiful décor, and the putting green. But, like Texas, it’s the people that Sevy hires that makes this a remarkable, distinctive, welcome and welcoming mainstay of the not inconsequential Dallas restaurant repertoire.

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