Dallas - August 22, 2008

Turning Japanese

Tei-An Restaurant Opens

Your summer crash diet has you cursing carbs like a sailor. But no matter how many dirty words you mutter, the lack of energy has cast your sanity out to sea.

Anchor down at Tei-An.

The new One Arts Plaza restaurant serves a fueling Asian mix, from sushi to meats grilled on hot Hida rocks. Soba noodle dishes (try the Texan pecan) are the house signature. The chefs spent months in Japan learning everything about the buckwheat pasta, including how to perfect it in Dallas’s humidity.

Chill out at The Soba Bar, where plush stools belly up to a black hardwood counter with a cascading waterfall in the middle. Then put the wind back in your sails with a specialty house cocktail.

You’ll be coasting again in no time.

Tei-An, 1722 Routh Street, One Arts Plaza (214-220-2828).