(From February 2011) Corporate types, UT Southwestern med school employees, police officers, and ordinary folk make this Dallas institution a madhouse at noon. If you’re thinking about the meat loaf, make sure to get it with plenty of the slightly spicy Creole sauce of onions, peppers, tomatoes, and carrots. Sides (there are more than 20) are pure comfort food; we especially like the pinto beans. A separate menu proclaims that “pie fixes everything,” and we’d have to agree after devouring our piece of chocolate–peanut butter cream pie with a chocolate cookie crust.

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(From April 2011) Imagine meatballs prepared with ground chicken rather than beef, plunk them down in a very fresh tomato sauce laced with tarragon and Reggiano, add a side of steamed broccoli, and you’ve got a healthy, tasty entrée. As for our other favorite, banana pie came nicely presented with fresh banana, vanilla custard, a crunchy crust, and a dusting of chocolate and drizzle of caramel. We like these imaginative variations on comfort food classics. We also like the feel of the long, narrow room centered with a U-shaped bar and lighted by clerestory windows. The alfresco patio and its infinity-pool foun-tain are a real draw. Bar.

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(From March 2011) California bistro–style cuisine is served up in a historic 1915 train depot that’s more homey than cutesy. There are plenty of lunch options—axis venison burgers, grilled salmon salad, portobello quesadillas. The soup du jour is definitely worth ordering, especially if it’s the Brie-mushroom bisque. Dinner entrées lean toward steaks, seafood, chicken, and pasta, plus a couple of nightly specials. Vegetable sides are fresh and generously portioned: heaping mounds of sautéed spinach, red-skinned mashed potatoes, tender baby green beans. A dessert tray, piled with tempting treats, is helpfully brought table-side for selection. Beer & wine.

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(From November 2011)

Urban Fare adds welcome variety to the food available downtown, catering to both the business lunch crowd and the wee-hours survivors of nearby party places. Try to ignore the industrial furnishings and depressing decor and focus on food that would be more at home in Santa Monica than in this recycled ex–pizza parlor on a South Texas side street. Dishes are all over the map, from a chicken-vegetable soup and a spicy Thai chicken wrap to a “Montreal Style” roast beef sandwich and a teriyaki beef rice bowl. We wish the proprietors enough success that they can afford to make the environment worthy of their kitchen. Beer & wine.

Sunday, April 29th, 2012, 1:33 pm
Patrick says:
This is a pleasant place with interesting and tasty food. The chairs look great but are quite uncomfortable. On First Friday nights it is an interesting place. They say to BYOB and come and go to the Art scene. We will go back.

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(From August 2011)

The name alone is a party, and the little place is festive as all get-out. But the celebration really starts with the first bite of the exceptional shrimp po’boy, a generous portion of fried shrimp drizzled with sweet, tangy rémoulade and cradled in a crusty French loaf. The crawfish étouffée rates high too, its aromatic mélange of Cajun seasonings no doubt a secret family recipe. Standards like these, along with daily specials, draw a loyal downtown lunch crowd. Wine. 

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