Bethenny Frankel Gives This “Bougie” Dallas Restaurant a 9

Bethenny Frankel was in town last week for who knows what reason and popped out for dinner. Naturally, someone pointed her towards the perfect place: Mister Charles. Honestly, can you imagine recommending anywhere else in Dallas to her?

In a video posted to her TikTok, Frankel calls it “bougie AF” from a corner booth on the light side of the restaurant and proceeded to rate every dish, after calling select dishes on the menu “serious.”

Frankel was a fan of the Ossetra caviar and egg salad on toasted brioche and the grilled cheese with truffled cheddar and prosciutto from the canapes menu. She referred to the corn and truffle beignets with chive creme fraiche from the appetizers section as “a sexual experience.” From the pasta menu, she ordered the truffle scarpinocc, and at that point the restaurant rated a 10 from her. However, she lowered it to 9.25 moments later, saying the ravioli edges were “too al dente.”

Mister Charles’s Chef Brendan Frankel (no relation, although she did note their shared last name) came out to serve the main course, which was the restaurant’s most expensive cut of beef — a Japanese A5 wagyu strip served with truffled potato and grilled maitake mushrooms. The steak is reviewed by Frankel to be “another level” and deserving of an 11.

Frankel also ordered the seared diver scallops with brown butter from the fish menu. The latter further dinged the restaurant’s score for not being crispy on the outside and being served “warm, not blazing hot.” For her, they are only an 8.

In the end, Frankel gave the restaurant a 9.

There’s a little connection beyond their shared last names with Frankel and the chef: she posted in another TikTok from Dallas that she was staying at the Mansion, where he was the chef before joining Mister Charles. Sadly, we did not get a TikTok review of the new chef at the Mansion.

Glad Dallas didn’t let her down.