10 Best Restaurants in Dallas 2026

D Magazine's new #1. David Uygur's 36-seat Bishop Arts trattoria — the hardest booking in Dallas.

Lucia took D Magazine's top spot for 2026 — the first time in three years D handed out a new #1. Uygur's house-cured salumi program is the best in Texas, the handmade pasta lineup rotates weekly, and the 36-seat room (no walk-ins, no exceptions) is the most coveted reservation in the state.

Best occasion fit: the city's defining proposal table. Intimate, conversational, slow-paced.

Dallas's newest Michelin star — earned 60 days after opening. The most exacting French cooking in Texas.

Mamani picked up a Michelin star within sixty days of opening in 2025 — almost unheard of speed. The cooking is rigorous French, from the veal cordon bleu to the Paris-Brest. Service is the most discreet in Dallas.

Best occasion fit: the client dinner where the cooking has to translate across cultures. French is the lingua franca of fine dining; Mamani speaks it fluently.

Stephen Rogers's James Beard-winning Italian — the most reliably excellent room on Henderson.

Rogers won James Beard for Outstanding Hospitality in 2025 and his Italian dining room on Henderson Ave has been one of the city's defining bookings for over a decade. The pasta program is the deepest in Dallas, the wine list is the best Italian list in Texas, and the service rivals the top tasting-menu rooms in any US city.

Best occasion fit: the most defensible first date in Dallas. Polished but never stuffy.

Tyson Cole's Uptown sushi flagship — the most consistent Japanese kitchen in Texas, eight years in.

James Beard winner Cole's Dallas outpost has aged into the city's most consistent fine-dining experience. The omakase counter is the destination, but the full a la carte room serves the same kitchen — the cool-tasting menu is the best entry point.

Best occasion fit: the birthday dinner that needs to feel celebratory without crossing into special-occasion-only territory.

Forty-five years of Dean Fearing-era pedigree. The Turtle Creek room that defined Dallas luxury dining.

The Mansion on Turtle Creek's dining room has been the city's defining luxury restaurant for over forty years — Dean Fearing built the original menu, Bruno Davaillon held the reins through the 2010s, and the current kitchen continues the lineage with a contemporary American menu inside the most beautiful dining room in Dallas.

Best occasion fit: the special-occasion proposal when you want the setting to do half the work.

Major Food Group's Dallas outpost — theatrical Italian-American, the most-booked celebration room in town.

Carbone's Design District location is the most-photographed dining room in Dallas. The veal parm and the spicy rigatoni are the dishes everyone orders; the tableside Caesar is the experience everyone tells their friends about. Theatrical, loud, fashionable.

Best occasion fit: a milestone birthday of six to ten that wants to feel like a Major Food Group event.

Teiichi Sakurai's soba and kappo room — the most specialized Japanese kitchen in the South.

James Beard semifinalist Sakurai's soba program is the deepest in Texas. The kaiseki tasting at the counter is the destination, but the noodle bar runs from lunch through dinner with the most refined hand-cut soba program outside Japan.

Best occasion fit: the most respected solo dining table in Dallas — the noodle bar is built for one.

Phil Romano's 24-year-old Uptown steakhouse — Dallas's defining power dining room.

Nick & Sam's has been the steakhouse Dallas defaults to for big-table corporate dinners since 2000. The dry-aged ribeye and the seafood tower are the signatures; the live piano in the dining room and the discreet booth layout are why the city's deal-makers still book it weekly.

Best occasion fit: the deal-closing dinner of six to twelve where every detail of the room has to telegraph 'we are serious.'

The Adolphus Hotel's restored French dining room — the most beautiful interior in Dallas, easily.

The Adolphus Hotel's French Room dates to 1981 and was restored to its full belle-epoque glory in 2018. Hand-painted ceilings, gilt details, and a French-rooted contemporary menu that has been refined for forty years.

Best occasion fit: the proposal where you want the room to be the photograph.

John Tesar's beef-driven Uptown steakhouse — the most ambitious dry-aging program in Texas.

Tesar's dry-aging program is the most ambitious in any US steakhouse — 240-day aged ribeyes are a regular menu item. The 44 Farms program, the burger program, and the bone-in cuts are the reasons Knife has held its top-tier position for a decade.

Best occasion fit: the team dinner when steak is the right answer.