Cafe Pacific
- Restaurant Design Awards: Best Bar (2009)
- Best Seafood (2010)
- Best Neighborhood Restaurants (2008)
- Best of Big D: Best Seafood Restaurant (2011)
Hours
- Sunday: 11 am-2:30 pm
- Monday: 11 am-2:30 pm, 5:30 pm-10 pm
- Tuesday: 11 am-2:30 pm, 5:30 pm-10 pm
- Wednesday: 11 am-2:30 pm, 5:30 pm-10 pm
- Thursday: 11 am-2:30 pm, 5:30 pm-10 pm
- Friday: 11 am-2:30 pm, 5:30 pm-10 pm
- Saturday: 11 am-2:30 pm, 5:30 pm-10 pm
Special Features
- Afternoon Tea
- Breakfast All Day
- Brunch Menu
- Business Friendly
- Catering
- Delivery
- Dine at the Bar
- Extensive Wine List
- Fixed Price Menu
- Gluten-Free
- Happy Hour
- Kid Friendly
- Late Night Menu
- Live Music
- Open 24 Hours
- Outdoor Seating
- Private Dining
- Quiet
- Romantic
- Takeout
- Valet Parking
- Vegetarian Friendly
- Vegetarian Options
- Wheelchair Accessible
- Wi-fi
Alcohol
- Beer
- BYOB
- Full Bar
- Margaritas
- None
- Sake
- Sangria
- Wine
Reservations
- Accepted
- Not Accepted
- Recommended
- Required
Payment Types
- American Express
- Cash
- Check
- Diner’s Club
- Discover
- MasterCard
- PayPal
- Traveler’s Check
- Visa
Profile
Everything about this place—white tablecloths, black-and-white marble floor—implies special occasion, but it's very much a neighborhood restaurant. Crab cakes, served on fresh greens with remoulade sauce, still thrill, as does the chocolate pecan ball: vanilla ice cream rolled in pecans and doused with chocolate.
Full Reviews
Most Recent
Review: Cafe Pacific
By Jennifer Chininis (7/1/2008)
Highland Park residents have been dining here regularly (and next to those celebrating birthdays and prom nights) for 26 years. It’s a neighborhood place in a neighborhood that can afford to eat $23 sea bass several times a week. Everything about this place—attentive and knowledgeable servers, white tablecloths, black and white marble floor, a delectable bowl of complimentary shoestring sweet potatoes—screams special occasion. Crab cakes have been a favorite for as long as we’ve been coming here, the fresh lump crab, breaded and barely fried, served alongside sprightly cucumber and semi-sweet honey mustard. A fried soft-shell crab special was a bit too poofy, the batter separating from the meat with every bite. Better was the white truffle-scented risotto (that was just the tiniest bit overcooked) topped with three mounds of lobster. The meats were standouts, including veal cutlets pounded thin and smothered with a perfectly executed béarnaise and clumps of delicate crab. Wine is organized by price point, making it easy to spot and select, say, a $42 Stag’s Leap Sauvignon Blanc. But do not think of pushing back your chair and summoning the valet until you indulge in the chocolate pecan ball: vanilla ice cream rolled in pecans and doused with chocolate. It’s a classic, not unlike Cafe Pacific itself.