La Joya Fine Mexican Dining

This is a truly distinctive Mexican restaurant that is essentially a collection of family recipes inspired by the cuisine of Cotija (for which the cheese was named), a small town in the southwestern state of Michoacan. Sinking their American roots in Arkansas with seven Mexican restaurants, the Oseguera family made their way to Dallas to perform before a more sophisticated audience. They succeed. Remarkable dishes include red snapper in chipotle lime butter sauce and the quail basted in ancho-chile sauce. Chile rellenos are treated with cinnamon, banana and white wine walnut sauce--like nothing you've tasted in the species.