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1321 Commerce St. Dallas, TX 75202

214-742-8200

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Critics'
Pick
Best Fancy Restaurant
Award Winner 2007

Cuisine(s): New American

Hours: Daily 6pm-9:30pm

Price: $$$$

Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, Diners Club
Attire: Formal; Jacket required

Features: Private Party, Catering, Wheelchair Accessible, Business Dining, Prix Fixe

Serving: Dinner

Alcohol: Full bar
Reservations: Accepted, Recommended

Parking: Valet

Description

The French Room remains one of Dallas' truly great plunges into dining opulence. Far from French, the cuisine is an inbred mutt of culinary royalty, with genetic specks from a few European corners pestered with American ingenuity and freshened with Japanese anal retentiveness. It's armed with stellar service, meticulously crafted culinary visuals, dazzling palate titillation and cherubs flirting with cloud puffs on the ceiling. What more could you want? Well, you could get a hotel room for dessert.

2007 | Best Fancy Restaurant

Despite its title, there is very little French in the French Room--save for the furiousness of its kitchen technique. It's more of an Italian-New York mash deliciously henpecked with Asian pinches and California thumbprints. The glory of it, aside from the paunchy flushed cherubs romping among the ceiling clouds and the gilded arches and explosive floral formations teasing the chandeliers and the greenish marble floor, is how the plates launch the senses into transcendence. Steam... More »

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French Feint

By Mark Stuertz | Thu, November 24, 2005

It's early in The French Room. It's filled not with diners but with music plucked and bowed from a string quartet. A harpsichord joins the jam. Later, "Musette" by J.S. Bach is played. On a harp. The music does much to craft the rarefied ambiance.... More »
Buttering Upscale

By Dave Faries | Thu, December 20, 2001

The French always complicate things. From brandy to sparkling white wine to butter, everything they produce succumbs to regional designations. While Land O' Lakes tastes the same whether dolloped on bread at the French Room or melted over Eggo waf... More »
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diroffers | Irving, TX | 4 Reviews

| Tue, December 21, 2010

You must make a reservation and appropriate attire is required. This is one of the best upscale restaurants in Dallas for both food and service, and the decor is quite similar to that which you would find in Europe.

Dinner Menu

Appetizers - Petrossian Caviars

Per 30 Grams $235.00

American Alverta President White Sturgeon

Per 30 Grams $175.00

American Royal White Sturgeon

Per 30 Grams $75.00

American Hackleback Caviar

Per 90 Grams $475.00

Tasting Of Our Caviars

Appetizers
Three Courses: $80.00 Per Guest

House-smoked Atlantic Salmon
american caviar, apple and celery root mousse, papaya emulsion

Baby Greens Salad
root vegetables, portobello mushrooms, goat cheese, warm bacon vinaigrette

Ginger Lobster Bisque
seared nantucket bay scallop, coffee oil

Pumpkin Seed Seared Ahi Tuna
tartar, tempura quail egg, asian pear, yuzu aioli

Dominion Farm’s Crisp Pork Belly
caramelized apple, toasted pecans, vanilla butternut squash purée,

Jumbo Lump Crab Cake
lemon grass lobster sauce, tomato jam, mango, curry

Hudson Valley Foie Gras
marcona almond crust, banana bread toast, cinnamon apple jam, cranberry coulis ($10 additional)

Poached Maine Lobster
three cheese ravioli, crispy rutabaga, lemon-butter oregano sauce ($10 additional)

Main Courses
Three Courses: $80.00 Per Guest

Icelandic Arctic Char
baby fennel, orange, bay scallops, spicy shrimp broth

Lightly-seared Wild Striped Bass
lobster potato gratin, lightly-creamed truffle sauce

Nova Scotia Halibut
horseradish crust, sweet potato risotto, cardamom carrot sauce

Study Of Veal
medallion, cheek, saffron poached pear, brie cheese, wild mushrooms, marsala sauce

Maple Leaf Farm’s Duck Breast
white chocolate polenta, foie gras, confit, huckleberry sauce

Colorado Rack Of Lamb
parmesan potato gnocchis, ginger carrot purée, citrus garlic jam ($10 additional)

Black Angus Beef Tenderloin
oxtail and scallion ragout, bordeaux wine sauce ($10 additional)

A Selection Of Artisanal Cheeses
$14 additional

Desserts
Three Courses: $80.00 Per Guest

Valrhona Manjari Bavarian Cream
olive oil cake, salted caramel ice cream

Warm Lemon Semolina Brioche Pudding
lemon curd, tuaca caramel

Mascarpone Pecan Cream Cake
cocoa nibs, cinnamon biscotti, kahlua coffee ice cream

Chocolate Caramel Mousse Dome
almond nougat, caramelized banana, warm rum jus

French Room Soufflés
additional $5

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The French Room

1321 Commerce St. Dallas, TX 75202

214-742-8200

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2007 | Best Fancy Restaurant

By Scott Reitz | Tue, April 3, 2012

By Joe Tone | Tue, November 15, 2011

By Lauren Drewes Daniels | Fri, November 11, 2011

By Mark Stuertz | Thu, November 24, 2005

By Dave Faries | Thu, December 20, 2001

diroffers | Irving, TX | 4 Reviews