Hot Spot P.F. Chang’s

AN IMPRESSIVE NARRATIVE SCREEN painting lends P.F. Chang’s in Addison a feel of authenticity, the sense that you’re in an ethnic restaurant when decidedly you are not. The open kitchen swarms with bustling cooks and quick flames rising from steel woks. Giant mauve disks suspended from the ceiling cast a subdued glow throughout the restaurant. The wine list is impressive (more than 55 wines by the glass), but the restaurant’s true reason for being is betrayed by the hum of an electric juicer churning up exotic drinks. This is a place to see and be seen, not to enjoy Kung Pao chicken. (The food is nothing special, anyway.)

P.F. Chang’s is sleek. Weekends, it’s crowded with beautiful people. The music’s loud. Though the elaborate menu discourses on 12th-century Chinese art, P.F. Chang’s is really about feeling highbrow without the hassle of actually being that way. 18323 N. Dallas Pkwv., 972-818-3336.