Dallas & Ft. Worth eats..

[ExtraMSG]

Those sneaky bastards often put some of the best courses on the 15 course menu, too. btw, when I went there (with Scott) I've never seen such excellent course timing. They must have one of those mechanical octopus backpacks I'm seeing in the Spiderman commercials lately. He and I ate very quickly and rarely had much of a wait -- a couple minutes at the most -- between courses. I think we did the entire 15 courses in 1.5 hours, maybe. Contrast that with 5 courses at Fifth Floor in SF in 3 hours or 12 courses at Masa's in, I think, over 4 hours!!! I've never seen such balance of texture and flavors as at Lola's Tasting Room. Some haute restaurants I've been may be more adventurous on occasion, or more clever (which can also be read as pretentious), but Lola makes great, solid, upscale tasting dishes. Mmm.

[Richard Kilgore]

Thanks for the report, Brian. You ate at two fine restaurants. But next trip we may have to escort you to the tex-mex/mex-tex/mex and barbecue so you don't get waylaid by chain barbecue and such again.