(OT) Anybody familiar with Dallas? Looking for advice

[Bulldog from Birth]

I'm looking to take the wife on an overnight trip to Dallas over the long weekend. Wanting advice on:
(1) A recommended nice, safearea of town to get a hotel to spend the night
(2) A recommendation for a good restauraunt to get a nice cut ofmeat
(3) Recommended hot spot for shopping. It's been years since i've been to dallas other than to simply use the airport. I know there's the Galleria but I was wondering if that was still the best place to shop.

Thanks for any help.
BFB

 

[61hot]

1.http://www.nick-sams.com/

2.http://www.albiernats.com/

Both places are great

 

[RobbieRandolph]

NAFOOM could load you up with some answers, especially since they've been to the Cotton bowl the last 2 years.

Stay in uptown Dallas or the Highland Park area. Great restaurants and bars. Shop at North Park Mall in Highland Park; the place is huge and has a whole wing dedication to high fashion designers if she's into that kind of thing. I got no recs about steaks, but Frankies is a great sports bar, Jake's is a great local burger place, and Breadwinner's Cafe is the best brunch I've ever had in my life.

 

[ScoobaDawg]

Dinnner...if you want good Steak

Pappas Brothers Steakhouse
http://pappasbros.com/location/?id=92

Shopping...Highland Park is where all the high class stores are and there is tons of places around there.

 

[jackstefano]

1. Stay at the W Victory: http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1521&EM=VTY_WH_dallas_1521_overview

2. There are many places to eat a great steak in Dallas. Some will say Biernat's is the place to go. My personal favorite is III Forks: <font color="#800080">http://www.iiiforks.com/</font>

 

[Johnson85]

Nick and Sam's has the better atmosphere, but I like Three Fork's steak better.

 

[McMeat]

Stay somewhere in Uptown Park / Highland Park / Turtle Creek / Preston Center

Steak ; Bob's Steak and Chop House, Pappas Brothers or III Forks are all great.

 

[rugbdawg]

http://trulucks.com/

It's a chain...but a damn good one.

I'm not really a fan of steak but Fogo de Chao is pretty good. Again, a chain. It's an upscale Texas de Brazil. Sure, it's a steak buffet but it's a good one. If you want a classic, vintage steakhouse, I'm not one to give you advice.

 

[WestCoastBulldog]

In terms of a place to stay that is hip/ trendy/ good location/ safe... Try Hotel ZaZa in uptown. Great atmosphere there and a pretty good bar/ lounge on top of the pool at night. I had Nick and Sams for Valentine's day this year and will say that it is probably the best steak I've had from a restaurant... EVER. It was fantastic and not too bad price wise. Shopping there is Highland Park Village which is a pretty good upscale place and NorthPark Center is where I would recommend in terms of a mall setting. It has all the good stores.

Let me know if you need any other options. Other restaurants I would suggest are on Knox/ Henderson (East of 75) there are 3 restaurants right there that are really good (Victor Tangos, Hector's on Henderson, The Porch, and there is one other but I can't think of it). That's in my neighborhood so I can firmly recommend them. Also in that area (Knox/ Henderson, Greenville Ave, MStreets area) there are very few if any chain restaurants.