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Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

For my money, this is the best place for fine dining if you you're wanting something other than French food. In contrast with other chic restaurants in town, it has quietly gone about its business, focusing on creating dishes that satisfy the palate and deliver something new. These days so many restaurants will try to get attention by creating fanciful sounding dishes with a "cutting-edge" use of ingredients. It just gets to be too much. The last couple of meals I had here were perfect. Memorable dishes included the chipotle marinated pork tenderloin with white cheddar andouille grits and peach chutney, the crab spring rolls with shitake mushrooms and tantalizing dipping sauces, some pan-seared scallops treated very simply, and some wonderful mango-wasabi crab cakes. The amiable waitstaff could answer most of the questions put to them.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's San Antonio & Austin, 8th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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