Dallas Restaurant Week: Bistro 31

Dallas Restaurant Week is here! 🙌🙌🙌 This wonderful time of year is when more than 125 delicious fancy schmancy restaurants offer special 3-course prix fix dinners. As if that weren't a sweet enough deal, if you spend $25 at Central Market (which is a regular occurrence in our house), you get a voucher for a *free* 4th course too. AND, just to sweeten the deal even more, 20% from each restaurant week meal purchased will be donated to the North Texas Food Bank. Basically, you should look at this list and make a reservation now. 

Pro Tip - "restaurant week" is a tad misleading because it's actually more like "restaurant 3+ weeks" for a lot of the participating restaurants. (I guess that just didn't have the same ring to it...) Chris and I love this opportunity to try new restaurants we haven't been to yet, so we're planning to go to a different one each week of 3+ week event (which I will review in full here. You're welcome. 😘) 

Our first restaurant to try was Bistro 31 - a "specialized modern twist on classic French, Italian and Spanish cuisine" in Highland Park Village.

Sidenote - all the pretty images are from Bistro 31's FB page, just FYI. 

First course: Red Beet Cured Pacific Salmon with Potato Latkes, Sour Crème, Paddlefish Caviar. 
This was our free 4th course (thanks Central Market!), and it was delish. I'm a BIG salmon fan, so I'm always down for a new salmon dish.

Second course: Grilled Vegetable Flatbread. Fresh, light, also delish.

Entree: Marinated Lamb Chops. They were good, but my fave part was the sauteed spinach, tomatoes, golden raisins, and pine nuts. 😋

Dessert: Almond Biscotti with Vanilla Gelato. My grandma's biscotti is better, but what can ya do? 

Here's the best part of all. Because they were so busy for restaurant week, we had to wait longer than usual for our entree. We didn't complain or anything - we could tell they were busy - but they were profusely apologetic and the general manager decided to comp our entire meal! We were like ...

Overall, it was great... good food, charming atmosphere, and even though service was slow they more than made up for with good service. Two thumbs up! 

xoxo, 

Annie.