jjdallas Anonymous

Food: 5/5  Vibe: 5/5  Service: 4/5  Value: 3/5  Overall: 5/5

This is maybe the best restaurant I've eaten at in the last year. Very unusual, but cool menu, with tons to choose from. This isn't the kind of place you expect to find in Dallas, it's more of a NY restaurant. I love the duck soba. In fact, I've loved everything I've ever had here (been twice). Sake selection is good too and the interior is relaxing and refined. I'd eat here every night if I could afford it!

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DC Anonymous

It's not an uproar until it requires a thread synopsis.

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DC Anonymous

I think the forehead is very temperature sensitive. Perhaps CK could check it out and report back.

Still the best restaurant in Dallas right now.

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CitizenKane Anonymous

TG:

What is the promotional tie in of you mentioning TA today w/ the heavy promotions being done for TA on WRR this morning?

Why all this buzz on TA today? The timing of all this seems contrived.

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commenter Anonymous

Still thinking about the yummy yellow tail in Portobello mashed potatoes! YUM!

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Billusa99 Anonymous

I think that you meant wo(u)nders, TG.

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dmacfar139 Anonymous

Food: 5/5  Vibe: 4/5  Service: 4/5  Value: 5/5  Overall: 5/5

We enjoyed Tei An a couple weeks back in the middle of the week. Fell in love with the curry Soba soup. Had been obsessively craving it so dragged friends there last night. DC, your post worked wonders since the place was nicely populated (on a Tuesday). Didn't really need the reservation I made, but one does give you a bit more attention on top of already fabulous service. The tempura was better than most places here and in Tokyo. Soba was great. One notable highlight was the barley tea that gratiously came at the end of the meal unordered.

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dmacfar139 Anonymous

Food: 5/5  Vibe: 4/5  Service: 4/5  Value: 5/5  Overall: 5/5

We enjoyed Tei An a couple weeks back in the middle of the week. Fell in love with the curry Soba soup. Had been obsessively craving it so dragged friends there last night. DC, your post worked wonders since the place was nicely populated (on a Tuesday). Didn't really need the reservation I made, but one does give you a bit more attention on top of already fabulous service. The tempura was better than most places here and in Tokyo. Soba was great. One notable highlight was the barley tea that gratiously came at the end of the meal unordered.

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DC Anonymous

Food: 5/5  Vibe: 4/5  Service: 5/5  Value: 4/5  Overall: 5/5

We are in the midst of a west coast tour. However, we have a little time back here in Dallas. So what to do what to do?

Well, after trying to hit as many live shows as we could this weekend, we also added a trip to Tei An. That's Tei like Tay and An like yawn not Anne of Green Gables I think. We tried to arrange a trip here a while ago while I think I was on a speakerphone driving as fast as possible from Salinas Kansas to DFW on the "24 Hours to Canada." It didn't work out then, so it was about time.

After deciding where to park we wander around the lifeless husk of One Arts Plaza. There are some people in the restaurants which is nice because the actual building appears to house the undead.

Tei An, however, is aesthetically pleasing. There is a strange white girl acting as hostess who seems pleasant but uncomfortable. It's ok. On the left there is a tiny bar of maybe 5 seats and a long table for a group. The right has the main dining room which is informally divided into a walled area, some 4s in the middle and a sushi bar style area surrounding a large rock. The palette is soft yet contrasted with perpendicular lines.

The menu is rolled into a bamboo style mat. It's simple and I instantly like it. We order some sake, tempura and settle in.

The servers have a muted peasant motif going on. They are also almost unreasonably polite.

Sake selections are excellent and the glasses are served in an ice packed masu same as Teppo and our memories of Moosh. Hey, Yosuke!

Yeah, the tempura absolutely rules. It's hot, crunchy and awesome.

We also have a bowl of udon which comes steaming hot with the requisite seasonings and a perfectly sliced portion of duck. The noodles are firm without being tough.

We also have a soba sampler. It's a stupendous platter of fresh soba and a variety of four sauces. Essentially you dip the soba in to the sauce and eat. Slurping adds extra flavo(u)r. You have to watch that the servers don't start dunking for you, but they're so damn sweet you can't be mad at them. In the end, it's like you also have a variety of soups to enjoy.

Oh, what to say? You knew I would love this sort of thing. The ingredients were excellent, the service was awesome and the setting inside the restaurant was perfect. The details like the welcoming cards if you reserve a table show a degree of interest not typical for D.

Still, on a Saturday night the place was maybe half full. I wouldn't say it was cheap. If you're used to Sonic sized meals, don't come hungry and broke. Still, if I think of our duck udon that was cheaper by a dollar and about a power of ten better than the duck curry we had at Mint I have to strongly recommend you get through the brain suckers at OAP and go to this place now.

THE END OF THIS.

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