Victory: That Gasoline Smell...

If a business owner feels that snide comments about the competition are necessary to promote his business, it says a lot more about the speaker than the competition. The comments by Mr. Pinnell do not make me excited about the One Arts plaza restaurant scene. Add to that the participation by Mr. Jones (whose Cafe Italia in Bishop Arts presented me with perhaps the worst meal I have had in Dallas), and that plaza is not off to a good start. I have eaten at all the restaurants at Victory mentioned in your article. I agree that none of them are the best that Dallas has to offer, but there is an excitement about being over there. Perhaps One Arts and downtown can capture that too, but it should not be at the expense of Victory Park, it should be in combination with Victory Park, to make downtown Dallas (all of it) one of the exciting dining destinations in the country. The arts district deserves that.

Ah, the battle of the pretentious. I think the plummeting numbers prove that you actually have to have something in your bag to keep people coming back. The novelty of the "new name" does not last forever. Once the cocaine and boob-job $30k/year millionaires are able to tell their friends "oh, I went to restaurant x last night"...its purpose has been served. How about offering up great cuisine if you want your business to last through the end of the year?