Monday is an easy night to eat well in Dallas. This is a steak town that runs a seven-day week, and most of the rooms worth booking keep their Monday hours, from the tower restaurants downtown to the Uptown institutions. Texas got its first Michelin Guide in late 2024, and the Dallas rooms it named mostly stay open Monday. Six of them confirm Monday service in their published hours. Here they are, ranked by what each room is for, with prices per person before drinks.
Dallas dining is built on the steakhouse and the special-occasion room, and both have a commercial reason to serve on Monday: the city runs on conventions, sports and business travel that fill hotels through the week. The marquee rooms — Crown Block in Reunion Tower, Monarch on the 49th floor downtown, the Uptown steak houses — treat Monday as a normal trading night. The arrival of the Michelin Guide in Texas in 2024 raised the stakes without changing the rhythm; the Guide rooms here largely keep a full week.
What closes Monday is the smaller, chef-driven end: rooms like Lucia in Bishop Arts run a short week and stay dark Sunday and Monday. This list ranks the city's best Monday-open rooms by what they do well and confirms each serves Monday against its published hours, dropping anything we could not verify rather than guess. The order leads with the skyline rooms and the steak institutions, then closes with a change of pace. Every name links to its full review. For the rest of the week, start with the Dallas dining guide.
Monday hours: Monday, 17:00–22:00
The restaurant that reopened the top of Reunion Tower pairs a serious steak and sushi menu with a 360-degree view that no other Dallas room can match. The tomahawk for two, the caviar service and the raw bar are the orders, and the room was booked out months ahead at launch. It opens at five every night including Monday, which makes the splashiest table in the city one of its more bookable on a Monday. Ask for a window seat at sunset.
Monday hours: Monday, 17:00–21:30
Danny Grant's Italian room sits on the 49th floor of a downtown tower with a wall of glass over the skyline, and it is the most polished special-occasion booking in Dallas. The dry-aged steaks, the caviar service and the house pastas carry a Chicago fine-dining pedigree. It serves Monday evening, when the room is calmer than its weekend crush, and the view does the same work at any seat. Book ahead for a window table, but a Monday is the easiest night to get one.
Monday hours: Monday, 17:00–22:00
The Maple Avenue steakhouse has been an Uptown institution for years, the room with a piano, a kitchen you walk through on the way in, and a bowl of complimentary caviar to start. The bone-in ribeye and the lobster bisque are the standing orders. It opens at five on Monday for a full dinner, and the bar is one of the better places in the city to eat a great steak alone on a Monday night without a reservation.
Monday hours: Monday, dinner 17:30–22:00
Dean Fearing helped invent modern Southwestern cooking, and his room at the Ritz-Carlton on McKinney Avenue still serves the tortilla soup and the bone-in cowboy ribeye that built his name. The dining room is warm and clubby, with live music most nights. It runs breakfast, lunch and dinner on Monday, so it is the rare upscale room that works for a Monday business breakfast as well as a long dinner. The Monday evening is an easy, comfortable booking.
Monday hours: Monday, 11:00–14:30 and 17:00–22:00
Al Biernat's on Oak Lawn Avenue is the steakhouse where Dallas does business, a wagyu-and-wine room near the concert venues that runs a deep cellar and a seafood tower to match the beef. The chopped salad and the dry-aged cuts are the orders. It serves Monday lunch and dinner both, which makes it the steak room to book for a Monday client lunch as well as a dinner, and the floor staff remember regulars by name.
Monday hours: Monday, 17:00–22:00
In the Design District on Riverfront Boulevard, El Carlos Elegante is the most stylish upscale Mexican room in the city, a maximalist dining room of colour and tile serving wood-grilled meats, tableside service and a long mezcal list. The carne asada and the seafood are the orders, and the cocktails are as serious as the food. It opens Monday evening at five, and it is the change of pace on this list for anyone who has had enough steak by Monday night.
Monday booking in Dallas is among the easiest of any major city, which is the quiet advantage of a seven-day steak town. Crown Block and Monarch, the two tower rooms, take Monday tables when their weekends are gone, and a Monday window seat at either is realistic with a few days' notice. Nick & Sam's and Al Biernat's hold walk-in bar seats most Mondays, which makes either a strong room for solo dining in Dallas at the counter. Closing a deal over a Monday dinner works best at Monarch or Al Biernat's, the rooms built to impress a client in Dallas. El Carlos Elegante is the booking for a Monday that needs to feel less like work.
Crown Block at the top of Reunion Tower is the marquee Monday room, pairing a steak and sushi menu with a 360-degree skyline view, open from 17:00. For a more polished fine-dining Monday, Danny Grant's Monarch on the 49th floor downtown serves Italian with caviar and house pastas. Both are in the Michelin Guide and both keep Monday hours, so the city's two splashiest tables are also two of its more bookable on a Monday night.
Most upscale rooms are. Dallas runs a seven-day dining week built on business and convention travel, so the steakhouses and tower restaurants treat Monday as a normal night. Crown Block, Monarch, Nick & Sam's, Fearing's, Al Biernat's and El Carlos Elegante all confirm Monday service. The rooms that close Monday are mostly the small chef-driven independents, such as Lucia in Bishop Arts, which runs a short Sunday-and-Monday-closed week. Confirm directly before travelling.
Several of the best. Nick & Sam's on Maple Avenue and Al Biernat's on Oak Lawn, the two Uptown institutions, both serve Monday dinner, and Al Biernat's adds a Monday lunch. Crown Block in Reunion Tower runs a steak and sushi menu nightly with the city's best view. All three are in the Michelin Guide. For a steak alone on a Monday, the bars at Nick & Sam's and Al Biernat's are the easiest seats to take without a reservation.
Texas received its first Michelin Guide in late 2024, so Dallas now has Guide-listed restaurants, and several rooms on this list — Crown Block, Monarch, Fearing's, Al Biernat's and El Carlos Elegante — appear in it. The Guide recognition matters for visitors used to it as a shorthand for quality. This list ranks the best Monday-open rooms by what they do well and confirms each serves Monday in its published hours, rather than ranking purely on Guide standing.
El Carlos Elegante in the Design District. The maximalist room on Riverfront Boulevard serves wood-grilled meats, tableside service and a long mezcal list, with most plates between $45 and $100 a head before drinks. It opens Monday evening at five and is the change of pace on this list for anyone tired of steak. Order the carne asada and a mezcal flight, and it is one of the most enjoyable Monday rooms in the city.
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