I have been up for hours and am raring to go! The hallways are still rather quiet, but soon there will be lots of activity as everyone will be busy with setup. No color yet to show you, no canvases in the windows to take pictures of and not much else to show.

Allot of the designers are not here yet or are checking in, so I haven’t had a chance to visit much yet. Nor have I seen what is new for Dallas, even though I am anxiously awaiting that! Most of the shoppers will be coming in later today or tomorrow.

After a day of travel you really do work up an appetite. After talking about Tilman’s Roadhouse for the last month or so, Missy, Karen of Zecca fame and myself decided to hot foot it over there. It is in a really cool eclectic part of downtown with old buildings, cobblestones sidewalks and gaslamp looking lights all that are being restored to it’s original beauty. It is such a popular dining establishment that we needed to wait for a table…so we walked around the area and supported the local economy and shopped in a few of these great boutiques.

We started off with adult beverages of  blood orange margaritas and a glass of Proseco. They served popcorn infused with truffle oil and pepper as a little nosh. Tough to decide what to order and maybe we would just order one of everything! We settled on Chicken Fried Steak for a few of us and another choice was a burger served with truffled Tater Tots! Absolutely delicious…ooh did I mention that the chicken fried steak was made with tenderloin?

Okay the time was now! to order dessert as our hearts were set on their signature Tableside S’mores. Everything is made in house, the graham crackers, the chocolate, the marshmallows in 3 flavors of maple, raspberry or mint.

There serve it on this wood plank with a little pot of fire so you can toast the marshmallows!

When you put it together the heat from the marshmallow melts the chocolate and it just oozes and OMG…just a bunch of kids eating S’mores around the campfire!

I just had to order a piece of Red Velvet Cake which is served with a toy! Like I said just a bunch of kids…well we didn’t get past the ice cream and I will save the cake for a snack later today!

BTW, the maple marshmallow was our favorite…can we go back there tonight?