Best Restaurants for Special Occasions in Design District

Food ordered: Hummus appetizer, soup du jor (tomato basil), ocean risotto (shrimp, mussels, white fish, tomatoes, asparagus), braised short ribs (brown butter carrot puree and asparagus), chocolate pot de creme. Drinks ordered: old fashioned, purple people drinker, espresso martini. All categories checked “excellent” with this experience. Noise level progressed throughout the evening but did not diminish the quality of our evening.

First class service. The table was beautifully decorated for our birthday celebration and came with complimentary champagne. Our server Miguel was excellent and took time to explain everything on the menu. We’re definitely coming back.

I enjoyed every minute of Nuri starting with valet. The hostess greeted me upon arrival and quickly escorted me to my seat. The drinks are amazing and I tried their version of the old fashion. The hamachi appetizer was delicious and the Akaushi filet was delicious. We also tried the Lobster K-Mac and broccolini and both were perfect. What made Nuri a solid 10 out of 10 was the bourbon pecan pie. It’s a must try!! I’m looking forward to returning!

Town Hearth is one of the best places in Dallas hands down. The ambience is amazing. The food is always of the highest quality and the staff is always extremely gracious and professional. Best money spent. 

My only reason for give four stars on the overall category is due to the confusion of booking/making a reservation for this restaurant. We was not aware this is actually TWO different restaurants with "Vino" being on one side, while "Carbone" is on the other side. When I made my reservation - I thought I was reserving for the "Carbone" side (not realizing this was a different restaurant, of course). We had already looked at the menu online and through OpenTable which is the menu for "Carbone". Once our server came out and handed us the menu, we was confused as we did not see anything mentioned online that she was telling us. When we asked her, that is when she explained the difference in the two different restaurants, which we was not aware of. She then informed us we have to get a "reservation" card at the front host stand to email and make a reservation for the "Carbone" side of the restaurant. Said all of that to say - 1) this should be better explained when making a reservation and 2) the restaurant should have both menus easily and most definitely understandable that there are two different menus due to there being two different restaurants right next to one another. The service and food was great - so this does not fall on them - this falls on the owners/management of this establishment.