Komodo is one of the most anticipated restaurant openings in Dallas this year. We made reservations weeks out only to leave feeling a bit had.
Well, you can likely tell where this is going.
I nabbed reservations for two at Komodo several weeks out, at 8 p.m. on a Tuesday, which was pushing curfew but it turns out you age yourself with 6 p.m. dinner reservations. Passing the bar into the main dining space feels a bit like walking across the dance floor at the club before the vodka and Red Bulls kick in. Many of the tables are big half-moons, great for dates or fun work dinners. It's loud and dim, with streaks of lipstick red lights and lots of laughing.
Soon, another couple joined us, so now we were six. It took a few minutes for us to figure out our noise levels. Topics were chosen a bit more carefully for the sake of our new friends as we tried to talk over the near club-level music while not drowning out the other convos. I was ready to split within 10 minutes, given the reservations weeks in advance, the hoopla in getting ready . There was also the valet, our corner and the prices. The CarFax report wasn't lining up.
We passed on the $105 Peking duck and ordered one of the few vegetarian options, wild mushroom lo mein , which was a spectacular dish. No one tell this lo mein that it’s not a pasta dish at a high-end Italian restaurant. We savored every bite of the medley of mushrooms rich with whisper-thin Parmesan and truffle oil. We never twirled chopsticks so passionately. A server, thinking we were finished, grabbed the dish with two mushrooms left and we cried a little .
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