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Good Girl Dinette bills itself as American diner meets Vietnamese comfort food, and lives up to its comfortable expectations.

Decor brightly lit orange. Not a romantic place, but a family fun place.

Menu is limited. Best surprise was the warm tofu rice crackers, the sauce is incredible, wished the rice were warmer, but the servers said it’s supposed to be like sushi. Curry cauliflower pot pie was hearty stick to your ribs fare, and tasted very Indian. The pork banh mi was delicious, but a little stingy on meat portion. Made me very nostalgic for KP’s Deli. Spring rolls tasted good but nothing really special that you remember. Grandma’s pho was delicious but the broth only reached halfway up the bowl and considering it was a cold night, and the waitress feared we "over"ordered, the portion size was both comical and stingy.

Still, the price is right, food comfortable, and the staff eager to please. Let’s hope they expand their menu.

CASH ONLY. BYOB.

One of my favorite comfort food restaurants. Very small restaurant but always crowded, always luscious.

When you first arrive, they give you a mixture of spicy celery and peanuts. Always wonder why I don’t make this simple dish at home. Our favorites — the pork-fried dumplings, steamed chive shrimp dumplings and the chive egg cellophane noodlle empanada-like dumpling. The dumplings make for great leftovers so we often order more than we can eat.

The bok choy with oyster sauce is excellent. We often order a noodle soup with the side order of bok choy so that we can add vegetables to our broth. Our favorite soup is the beef brisket soup, but we also like the pork with pickled mustard greens for change of pace. The smoked tofu is as delicious as it is virtuous.

Get there early or be willing to stand in line and risk them being out of dumplings.

Three Drunken Goats is a welcome addition to Montrose. The name is taken from the Spanish cheese called Drunken Goat, a cheese that is aged in red wine.

Wonderful ambience. Spacious with an open kitchen. A lot of variety on the menu, specializing in tapas. Although there are some vegetarian choices — mushroom and cheese flatbread, beets with goat cheese — would like to see more green. For green, there is grilled asparagus and a butter lettuce salad — not enough IMHO.

Favorites include garlic prawns with pocha beans, and the clams with tomato garlic and saffron broth, grilled fish, potato croquettes, crab croquettes. Reasonable wine list with featured specials. Be forewarned, a few times I’ve gone, they’ve run out of dishes and wines on Sunday.

Happy Hour 5-7 PM Monday through Friday with $5 finger foods.

Incredibly loud and jostling. The place to go when you don’t want to hear your dinner companion but feel compelled to socialize. Wait staff and patrons constantly knocking into you and your table, risking dish-on collisions. It’s dinner on the offensive.

Cool bar where the liquor is backlit. Large airy space but the noise carries and carries. The food is artistically presented. The crab crawfish sliders were delicious and interesting, presented on a rectangular. The sand dabs almondine were tiny looking, smallest sand dabs I ever did see, but tasted fine. The sand dabs were also served on a rectangular plate.

The stuffed turkey meatball spaghetti was a mixed bag. The marinara sauce sweet and refreshing. The turkey meatball was stuffed with mozzarella and basil, but didn’t work. Even quartered, too dense, too salty and too jarring with the marinara sauce.

Extensive wine list, but of course the one wine I chose was no longer available.

Waiter was nice and efficient, but he could hardly hear and often asked you to repeat.

The decor is minimalistic and restaurant not large. When we first entered, we are the only party of two besides a large party. Soon as we ordered, more and more people came in and the restaurant was soon crowded.

Specials on the wall all in Chinese and I worried we were cooked. The menu is bilingual. We ordered the appetizer green beans, served cold, coated in a fried ginger sauce that was crisp as spring.

Jellyfish salad was our second appetizer, and this was a delectable surprise. Crunchy yet soft and coupled with the shredded cabbage, an excellent contrast.

As a main entree, we treated ourselves to pork belly served in a pumpkin and this was sumptuous. Rich sauce, luscious pork and sweet squash. Heaven together.

The brisket beef hotpot was the biggest disappointment. The brisket was tasteless, broth thin and greasy. The daikon, however, absorbed the flavors and tasted wonderful.

The Chiu Chow noodles had shrimp, scallion and a hint of smokiness that made you wish the protein was beef.

Braised chicken wings tasted deep-fried more than braised, but they were winning and addictive.

Near the entrance to the restaurant hangs a bulletin board with many post-it notes. A lot of people write their favorite dishes on a post-it note. Noticed that the chicken wings are named frequently as well as the jellyfish salad and sizzling chicken hotpot.

We would definitely go back. Service was attentive and courteous. CASH only. They do serve Tsing Tao and Budweiser. Sweet sliced oranges served for dessert.

Tan Tan Men is the Sichuan specialty here and it’s a big bowl of love. In this bowl is a rich flavorful and peanutty orange broth, ramen noodels, minced beef, a few spinach leaves. Simple comfort food, yet it brags seven spices. Tan Tan Men comes original spicy, medium or mild.

Many combo platters that offer ramen bowls with karagae fried chicken, mapo tofu, and/or gyoza. The gyoza are delicate balance of pork and cabbage, browned nicely on one side.

The fried chicken was tasty, but one piece was all fat and disappointing.

Service is wonderful. Waiters refilled our water often. You didn’t have to ask.

Luckily it’s both art and food. Dishes are presented so beautifully though you stop to wonder if you should eat it. Believe me, you should.

The grilled miso chicken wings are to die for. The simmered pork with white peach, served in porcelain spoons, works better than the sea bass paired with white peach. The soup served in a Zen tea pot was a revelation both in service and taste. Very simple flavorful broth and a few mushrooms. The tomago was the second best I’ve had, not quite pound cake-like, but transcendent of egg. Sauteed shishito peppers, sea bass in lettuce cups, all tasty.

Love the balance of cooked and the raw, and the variety. Menu is a novella.

Prices are high, portions small, waitstaff friendly. Place is small, gets very crowded so make reservations.

If I had more money I would eat here more often. The sushi and sashimi is amazingly fresh. Owner chef and his wife very charming and gracious. Thrilled to have fresh sushi and sashimi on this side of town, away from Sushi Row.

Only wish the owner chef would innovate and add some variety, including simple cooked foods, to his repertoire.

The salmon arrives with a film of seaweed over it that he made himself. The jellyfish is crunchy and sublime. Uni and hamachi, like butter. The Maryland blue crab hand roll divine, you’ll want two and why not, you have two hands. The nori is always noticeably fresh.

One drawback is every time I go, he serves everything in the same order same way. The second is there are no cooked items — no edamame, no roasted gingko nuts — to help fill in the budget or hunger pangs. The bill adds up very fast.

Wonderful izakaya that is easy on the eyes, easy on the wallet. Long menu, one for food, one for drinks. Food is reasonably priced, pitchers of beer run $12, and the wait staff is hip cool.

Haru Ulala’s bar is shaped like a horseshoe. And you feel lucky when you sit at the bar and watch all the foods being grilled. Haru Ulala specializes in little plates and grilled foods. Top picks include grilled okra, short rib and daikon, kakuni pork belly, grilled shishito peppers, grilled enoki mushrooms, spinach gomae, roasted gingko nuts.

Always have a dry erase board listing many specials so there’s always something new to try.

Top picks: wood-oven roasted egg, blueberry ricotta pancakes, grilled artichoke, weekend fruit foccacia, wood oven burger with tomato moutarde and burrata, Italian wedding soup, pappardelle with Italian sausage.

Monday night specials, 3 course meal for 15$ with bottle of house wine $10. A delight if you don’t mind lots of noise and long waits because the secret’s been long out.

On wkends, you can get a bottle of Proseco to accompany brunch/lunch for $10. The fruit foccacia on weekends is a must eat, especially the way they pair fruit with herbs. Peach with rosemary/thyme my favorite.