The Dallas Museum of Art - a whole day trip, pretty
much. Not better than its Kimbell rival, but
certainly its equal, with much more volume but
maybe not as cherry-picked. An eccentric and
confusing layout, which is reflected in its
eccentric and confusing Website. I'll come back,
especially as it's a quick DART ride from there
to the
Pecan Lodge, where we arrived in the late afternoon
on a day when they are open for dinner, so we got
fresh new food with hardly a wait at all.
There's not much I can say about this restaurant
except that it's now a restaurant - a lot of the
mentions on the Internet say it's a food stall in
a farmer's market type arrangement, but it's moved,
even though Google Maps doesn't think so. The food
is of an exceedingly high standard, but what I had
was in fact standard. Of course, there are weird
things on the menu, but I didn't get any of them
(e.g. a loaded baked sweet potato with barbecue
on top). Oh, yeah, a very important thing to say
- you can bypass the line if you go to the bar
and have a drink and ask the bartender to order
food for you.
We split a plate of moist brisket, superb, perhaps
worth its position in the Texas Monthly top 4 along
with Franklin and Snow's (which I do prefer) and
Louie Mueller's (which I don't, though it is very
good, as good perhaps as the brisket made by
other Mueller people).
The ribs were good but not as good, an afterthought,
in my opinion overbrined but tasty enough.
We also got an unadvertisedly spicy (tiny dice of
jalapeno) red cabbage slaw which I liked pretty well.
The Stone Rose Cabernet had a tart edge and went well
with the brisket. Kind of expensive for an off-brand
wine that I thought from the name to be a local
product (it turns out really to be from Napa).
For me, the chocolaty spicy Tupps Tuppkin porter,
which went well enough with the meal that I had a
couple, despite my general dislike of spiced beers
(nutmeg advertised in this one, but luckily not so
much in evidence).
Followed by the more typical Peticolas Golden
Opportunity, a German-style pilsner that is claimed
to be a Kolsch. A bit grainy tasting for the style,
almost as though it were trying to straddle the
American and German styles. Good to wash down the
peppers in the slaw.