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Tei An

1722 Routh Street, Dallas, 75201
(at One Arts Plaza)

Phone: 214-220-2828

Cuisine

Basic information:

  • Pricing: Expensive
  • Alcohol: Full Bar
  • Accepts major credit cards
  • Reservations recommended

Features:

Business hours

  • Mondays: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
  • Mondays: 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
  • Tuesdays: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
  • Tuesdays: 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
  • Wednesdays: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
  • Wednesdays: 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
  • Thursdays: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
  • Thursdays: 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
  • Fridays: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
  • Fridays: 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
  • Saturdays: 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Past events at Tei An

Favorited by these users:

Catherine Cuellar, Matt Anderson, Stephanie Byrd, dschmits, osuzannadrums


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Comments

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!

8 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Travis Bush Verified

I nominate JRice for Manchurian Candidate!

9 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Jason Rice Verified

Is CK suggesting a vast Spicy Asian Wing conspiracy or some such?

9 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

DC Anonymous

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

9 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Stephanie Byrd Verified

So funny... I ate there last night, so I came in today and added it to my favorites and commented on the toilet seats. I thought it would be funny. I had no idea about the WRR connection. I am slightly embarrassed and sorry to create such an uproar!

9 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Teresa Gubbins Staff

CitizenKane, i am embarrassed to admit that i know nothing of a WRR-related event. i made this lunch appointment weeks ago (actually, it got canceled once and we re-skedded). i have always liked Tei An, have been there a few times. i don't usually broadcast where i'm eating for lunch but mike is correct that i was responding to the comment by stephanie byrd

i did notice today that there was some kind of crowd or event down there at the One Arts Plaza but it was all out on the concourse, not inside Tei An where there were plenty of empty seats. parking stunk, though. no spaces anywhere and i had to pay $6 for garage parking. hate that

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James Scott Verified

very contrived statement, DC.

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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.

9 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Pavel Lishin Verified

Are you sure the toilet seats are heated? Maybe someone who runs a little hot vacated the premises right before you came in.

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Mike Orren Staff

CitizenKane, I'm chiming in because TGub is offline right now, but I'm sure she can elaborate.

But the answer is that there is no promotional tie at all. We have no business relationship with Tei An. It appears to me that she was just responding to the comment from Stephanie Byrd. Dunno if she listens to WRR or not.

We do sometimes make promotional posts, like the contests on the blog, but we're always transparent about those relationships.

9 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

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.

9 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Teresa Gubbins Staff

stephanie, how clever of you to offer this reminder. it just so happens i am eating there at lunch today

9 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Stephanie Byrd Verified

No one has mentioned the heated toilet seats in the restroom. Just something else for folks to consider.

9 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

commenter Anonymous

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

11 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Billusa99 Anonymous

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

1 year ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Teresa Gubbins Staff

dmacfar, DC's posts always work wonders

i LOVE tei an

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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.

1 year ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

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.

1 year ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

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