Oddfellows — Restaurant in Dallas

I have mixed emotions about this place - my food and drink were absolutely horrible! However my friends’ food and drinks were pretty darn good! We were so excited about meeting up for our girlfriend brunch. The spicy margarita was a real hit, fresh made with tahini and jalapeños. The devil eggs with the red sauce were delicious! The star of the day was the Wagyu chicken fried steak - wow… tender, seasoned well and gravy was flavorful. The shrimp and grits were a big hit for the group as well, yum. They weren’t spicy as we thought they’d be but the sauce was flavorful, the shrimp was cooked well and the grits were good and creamy! The bread pudding French toast was Magnificently delicious - sweet, great sauce, and fresh fruit!!!Those were things that will make me come back! What makes me want to run and not come back is the fried green tomatoes, the bacon, the BLT, the brisket on the brisket and grits and the horribly unbalanced limeade! The limeade was super tart without absolutely no sweetness. The brisket had no flavor at all, the smokiness however was there and the grits were smooth and creamy so it made the dish a little below “mid”. I have had very few places that completely fail at a BLT but Oddfellows get the award! I had a feeling I’d need extra bacon & I was right because they bent a piece in half for each one side. Yes you heard that right - 2 pieces of bacon only for a BLT, WTH!?! So I had to order extra bacon. When I saw the extra bacon on the side (2 pieces), I thought the bacon was going to be great. They fooled me! It looks crispy and has some pepper on it but it was “flappy”, which kills me because most people want crisp bacon!!! It also wasn’t really good sadly. The rock hard flavorless bread that was a little stale started it all. It was to be a layered sandwich - rock hard flavorless bread, flappy, yucky bacon, horrible fried green tomatoes, rock hard bread, avocado, a little sauce ( don’t know what it was because it was so little) and another piece of rock hard bread. I was hoping the fried green tomatoes were going to be good as the appetizer because we had a friend that hadn’t had them before but they were horrible too & came after our meals were served because they forgot them… oh and there were only 2 sliced green tomatoes! They had no seasoning in the mixture on the outside which normally makes the tartness of the unopened tomato offset or balanced. The salmon spread to put on them was good, I was told by my friends however. The waitress as well gave us great service the 3 times she was at our table! She was truly ripping and running in and outside so even though it wasn’t stellar service we tipped her beyond the automatic tip for parties over 5. Not sure when I’ll get back but will try again...

Update: 10/2020

Finally made it back with a girlfriend in celebration of national coffee day. I wish I could say my cappucino was as a great as I remember, but while it was still delicious, it was not as good as my first experience. Still though, better than 90% of other coffee places in the metroplex even not at their best. 😉

This time we tried the sweet and savory toast (yum! And super meaty), the brisket hash (mmmmmm) and the beignets. I will say the beignets weren’t really beignets (like NOLA style). They were more dense and cakey but still very good.

Overall, I still love this place and will be back.

Original review: So I’d give this place five stars for the most amazing cappucino I’ve ever had in Dallas alone. Seriously, it was cappucino perfection. It came Italian sized (not American oversized) and had perfect texture. When you drank it, it kept its shape/texture all the way down. It didn’t turn into a latte midway. Lol. Seriously, can’t say enough about it. Per.fec.tion.

The food was very good too. I had their blt which was elevated and delicious. It came with a salad that had a scrumptious dressing.

MH had the croissant meat sandwich. The croissant was so buttery and flakey. My guess is they either made them or bought them fresh that morning.

The place was busy! Even on a Sunday before church let out. 😂 so be prepared to wait or hope you can squeeze in at the bar if your party is small enough (that’s what we did).

The place is cute but small. You can’t miss the yellow banner and the super cute wiener dog door handle as you enter. Definitely check it out if you’re in or near...

I went here for breakfast awhile ago and it was good, but I returned for dinner recently and was exhilarated! I ate the fish of the day (Salmon). The fillet was an attractively rhombohedral cut with a glittering, translucent salt crust, which lent to it a unique, mineralogical appearance (think druzy Vanadinite). Breaching its briny brocade was not unlike cracking a creme brulee, the flesh underneath was smooth and succulent, flaking as immpecably as segments of a tangerine. Atop it were about a dozen strands of delicate, earthy beet sprouts, underneath lay an amicable trio of fingerling potatoes, brussel sprouts, and a soothingly quantized hash of red & green peppers. The brussels were probably the best I've ever had, so deeply sauteed without being burnt or mushy while the nonchalant purity of the potatoes was an ingenious foil for all the assertive flavors. Everything was draped in a ghost-like lavender vin blanc sauce, buttery and floral. The portion size was rather large as if the chef was (rightly) confident that the flavors and textures wouldn't become coy or monotonous on the plate. The only possible criticism I have would be that the crust on the fish was intensely salty, eaten on its own, especially on bits near the edges, it was almost too much. I'm not sure that taking the salt level down just a tad would have compromised the harmony of the dish. Above all, I greatly appreciated how the complexity in the dish unfolded through the process of eating, like an apparently simple knot you realize the complexity of...