Trader Vic’s
Hotel Palomar
5330 E. Mockingbird Ln. (Central Expwy.) 
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Dallas, TX 75206
214-823-0600 | Make Restaurant Reservations
Cuisine
Open
Dinner nightlyFeatures
- Romantic setting
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
- Valet parking & parking garage
- Business casual
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 If you haven’t been to Trader Vic’s in well, forever, go now to this Dallas outpost that was shuttered in the late 1980s. Though it looks as if you’ve stepped into a tiki hut, this is a contemporary Trader Vic’s. Gone are the pu pu platters of yore, replaced by modern takes on Polynesian and Chinese-goes-Napa cuisines that work out well in the end. Begin with one of the classic tiki cocktails like the scorpion bowl, a mind-numbing concoction of rum, juices and brandy that lubricates a party of four. If you’re drinking alone, try the Dr. Funk of Tahiti, a savory blend of rums and herbsaint. When it comes to noshes, start with beef cho-cho, skewers of beef served on your own personal mini-hibachi. The hits of the dinner menu are the entrées from the Chinese wood-fired oven. Crowd favorites are the cowboy rib-eye sided with a heap of onion rings and the barbecue duck breast with a soy and orange reduction. Both are gently infused with the smoke of the hickory, oak and mesquite woods used in the ovens. The pork chop Hawaiian pays homage to a luau with grilled pineapple, whipped potatoes and Maui onion marmalade. Go for the tiki bowl, stay for the food. |
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