10 Splurge-Worthy Restaurants in Dallas

The communal table in the Purépécha Room at Revolver Taco Lounge offers an intimate, front-row seat to the skills of James Beard semifinalist Regino Rojas. With his mother Juanita at his side, he entertains the palates of fine-dining lovers on Friday and Saturday nights with seven courses inspired by his birthplace of Michoacán. Enhancing the ever-changing seasonal courses are the silky-soft heirloom tortillas.

Things’ll be great when you’re downtown, forgetting all your troubles and cares at Catbird, a cocktail lounge that serves seafood, tacos, and sandwiches on the ninth floor of the Thompson Hotel. To experience the best work of rising-star executive chef Jeramie Robison, make a reservation for the Thursday night omakase, where eight courses are served with tea service and cocktails on the enclosed patio, right in the middle of the city lights.

For red carpet treatment where everything is served with fanfare, you’ll want to be at a table at Carbone, noshing on Caesar salad prepared tableside and the famous spicy rigatoni vodka. If you really want to go big, add a shaving of Dallas’s best selection of white truffles from Alba, the truffle capital of the world. Since Carbone is the biggest buyer in Dallas, they get first dibs.

With new executive chef R.J. Yoakum leading the kitchen of this swank restaurant from Stephan Courseau, you can rest assured you’ll get a bang for your buck the next time you’re craving dinner or brunch in style. Yoakum comes with experience from the French Laundry, and he isn’t skipping a beat at Georgie, where he’s rolling out roasted foie gras, smoked trout cavatelli, and dry-aged duck breast with smoked wildflower honey and mushroom tapenade. Make a night of it with the six-course tasting menu.

Tei-An by James Beard semifinalist Teiichi Sakurai is a Dallas classic. Since opening in 2008, it’s been offering culinary tickets to Tokyo with housemade soba noodles, sushi, ramen, and crab uni risotto. There’s also an omakase that embraces the chef’s choice tradition with seasonal cuts of sashimi, A5 Miyazaki beef cooked on a hot stone, soba Bolognese, and buckwheat ice cream with black honey — all of which taste especially sublime while sitting at the soba bar with a view of the stone garden.

Mister Charles is a fictional character loosely based on Duro Hospitality co-owner, Chas Martin. You’ll feel like a character in a storybook, too, as you’re lavished in a palatial dining room with lobster Thermidor, lamb loin Wellington with foie gras, and a classic soda fountain sundae with the toppings of your choice from a silver caddy.

Bonus: Here’s everything you need to know about getting a reservation at Mister Charles.

By chefs Jimmy Park and his mentor, Shinichiro Kondo, Shoyo is an in-demand 12-seat sushi bar on Lower Greenville Avenue. Opened in 2021, sushi lovers are still setting their alarms for the first of the month in order to snag the date and time of their choice, knowing the $195 price they’ll pay to secure a reservation will result in one of the city’s best sushi omakase experiences.

Recently arrived from Miami Beach to Deep Ellum’s Epic development is nightclub-esque Komodo, Groot Hospitality’s first venture outside of South Florida. The signature dish at this Southeast Asian-inspired hot spot is the Peking duck, but don’t skip the lobster dynamite on a crisp quinoa cake, the crab lo mein in XO sauce, or the bespoke cocktails you’ll need for the ‘Gram pics. (The walk to the bathroom is especially photo-worthy.)

If you have a taste for caviar, dance on over to the Tango Room, where executive chef Corrin Ellis and bar manager Rye Patton dazzle with fresh spins on one of the world’s oldest delicacies. Start with caviar martinis and the caviar-studded fried chicken before heading into Allen Brothers steaks, sure to impress any date or client.

For an 18 to 20 course omakase, the largest we know of in Dallas, reserve your place at one of the 16 seats at Brandon Cohanim’s Namo in the West Village. With two seatings every Wednesday night, you’ll be one of Dallas’s most fortunate, well-fed diners with Edomae-style sushi prepared with fish straight from Japan.