I'm posting the link containing the latest big review of the Mansion restaurant at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, which appeared last Friday in the Dallas Morning News, essentially the only paper in this town.

This is the one we've been waiting for these past five months since the completion of our $6 million renovation, as well as the first one written since I joined the Mansion as its Director of Wine and Beverage in the Fall of 2007.

I think you'll agree that it's a rave on the scale of a Broadway smash hit, and we're immensely proud and pleased that we've been so well received, and so well understood by the local critic Bill Addison.

Reinventing the image of the Mansion restaurant since the departure of iconic chef Dean Fearing over a year and a half ago was an exercise in blind faith and team work on a level I've rarely experienced. Chef John Tesar is without a doubt the driving force behind this effort, but the powers that be at Rosewood, much to their credit, had the fortitude and the confidence to let him work his magic, and he spent much of the last 18 months scouring the country for talent and energy to see his vision fulfilled.

And now, it appears, we have the sort of validation we've craved to go forward with that vision, and refine it, and focus it. The Mansion has always stood for the pinnacle of excellence within the culture of Texas - the "paradigm of fine dining in Dallas", as critic Addison so nicely puts it. We are now poised to carry on that fine tradition in the context of the new age.

We work hard, we play hard, but we never lose sight of our special responsibility to our many guests from all over the world, and to the people of Dallas, who form our extended family, and, apparently, approve of the new look and feel. I'm very excited to be a part of this "new wave" in Dallas.

Just you wait. You ain't seen nothin yet.