"Mister Charles in East Dallas swings big, and that includes the dining room with two-story-high ceilings and a bar that spans nearly the entire restaurant. The food takes French and Italian classics and puts a luxurious spin on them—a whole dover sole comes swimming in a lobster beurre blanc, buttery and light as a cloud, or fusilli that shows up covered in fontina and glittering with caviar. The desserts tend to arrive on fire, like a dome of meringue hiding baked alaska with banana, which is an appropriate spectacle to end a meal at a fine dining spot that knows how to have fun." - nick rallo