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Abacus				Write a Review
4511 McKinney Ave.	Asian Fusion, New American, Southwestern	$$$$	Park Cities
Since 1999, Abacus has represented the quintessence of creative dining injected with a good dose of common sense. Now, after a complete overhaul of the dining room and the addition of the Bar at Abacus, a transformation fueled by modern chic, lighter hues and rich textural finishes of wood,... More >>

Afghan Grill				Write a Review
19177 Preston Rd	Middle Eastern	$$	Richardson & Vicinity
Afghan Grill was alloyed in the crucible of war, and therein lies its exquisite culinary claim. In Pakistan, Afghan Grill chef and founder Asmat “Matt” Pikar witnessed a heated tussle between an Afghan refugee—driven from Kabul by the surging squalls of battle—and his... More >>

Aló Cenaduria & Piqueos				Write a Review
4447 N. Central Expressway	Central American, Mexican	$$, $$$	Park Cities
Aló Cenaduria and Piqueos is a chic depository of the street foods sold off carts and from stands along the thoroughfares of Mexico and Peru—street foods, all sexed up and sultry, as sinuously delectable as a sculpted gluteus maximus. Founding chef Taco Borga (La Duni and its... More >>

Aurora				Write a Review
4216 Oak Lawn Ave.	New American	$$$$	Uptown & Oak Lawn
Chef Avner Samuel has recast his American interpretation of the Michelin three-star restaurant with shaven prices and an emphasis on organic and locally grown ingredients graced with a Tiffany touch and classic French technique. Pan-fried, free-range Good Earth Farm eggs with crispy pancetta,... More >>

Babe's Chicken Dinner House				6 User Reviews
1456 Belt Line Road #171	American, Diner	$	Garland & Vicinity
We figure there's something wrong with people who can't enjoy an occasional fried chicken dinner. Nonetheless, we feared we'd be wandering onto the documentary setpiece for America: The Obese at Babe's, a venerable family dining establishment exactly where you'd expect to find it, in a Garland... More >>

Bengal Coast Spice Traders				Write a Review
3102 Oak Lawn Ave.	Asian, Eclectic, Indian, Pakistani, Thai	$$, $$$	Uptown & Oak Lawn
In the strictest, most rigidly traditional sense, this is not an Indian restaurant. Rather it is Indian-inspired, and the key to its success is the kitchen’s ability to tame the complexity and heady sensuality of Indian cuisine while retaining its transcendent and lucid spirit. Ingredients... More >>

Bijoux				Write a Review
5450 Lovers Lane #225	French, New American	$$$$	Park Cities
Bijoux is not the most expensive restaurant in Dallas. Yet. But it just may be the most worth it. Nourishment can be had in one of three forms: a nine-course tasting menu and a three-course prix fixe and five-course prix fixe menu that offers a choice of appetizers, entrees, cheeses and... More >>

Boi Na Braza				1 User Reviews
4025 William D. Tate	South American, Steakhouse	$$$	Irving & Las Colinas
This is arguably the best Brazilian "espeto corrido churrascaria," or continuous service grill house, in the area. The space is palatial, if a bit banquet-hall-esque, the salad bar is ample and relatively fresh, and the skewered meats, served by gauchos with wicked carving knives slipped into... More >>

Cafe San Miguel				2 User Reviews
1907 N. Henderson Ave.	Mexican	$$$	East Dallas & Lakewood
Named after the Central Mexican metropolis of San Miguel de Allende, Café San Miguel is a casual yet engaging flirtation with Mexican cuisine coupled with Tex-Mex inflections. Café San Miguel is the work of restaurant designer Ron Guest and his small klatch of partners. The food... More >>

Charlie Palmer at the Joule				Write a Review
1530 Main St.	New American	$$$, $$$$	Downtown & Deep Ellum
With installments in New York, Las Vegas, Sonoma, D.C. and Reno, among other locales, chef Charlie Palmer’s Dallas increment sits in the Joule Urban Resort in a rehabilitated Main Street building, in all of its Texas handsome, breezy-themed glory. So it at least has an old Dallas pedigree.... More >>

Craft				Write a Review
2440 Victory Park Lane	New American	$$$$	Uptown & Oak Lawn
Stay for the exquisite Wagyu skirt steak and the buffalo tenderloin or the Alaskan halibut, but be blown away by the austerity of the vegetables: the Jerusalem artichokes, sautéed haricots verts and the lady creamer peas. Celebrated founding chef Tom Colicchio founded his New York... More >>

Dallas Fish Market				Write a Review
1501 Main St.	Japanese, Seafood, Steakhouse	$$$, $$$$	Downtown & Deep Ellum
Dallas Fish Market chef Randy Morgan says his goal of primacy is to align food with décor, in this case a modern white glass and metal room with repeating geometrical shapes cleansed into near sterility. Thus Morgan, who resuscitated the shuttered Russian Tea Room in New York, works his... More >>

Fearing's at the Ritz Carlton				Write a Review
2121 McKinney Ave.	New American	$$$, $$$$	Uptown & Oak Lawn
Perhaps more than any restaurant in recent memory, the setting of Fearing’s—locked in the Ritz Carlton, honed by the Johnson studio of Atlanta into a set of distinct design chapters in the Fearing’s drama—is as critical to the experience as the mopped rib eye on the plate.... More >>

Four Winds Steakhouse				2 User Reviews
211191 FM 47	Seafood, Steakhouse	$$$	East Texas
It rests in the thick of the backcountry; at the end of a twisty driveway, wood fencing lining its flanks. There’s a gazebo, a long porch and a few oaks sulking in the breeze, plus a 15-acre pond where bass can be reeled in. This is Dallas steak dining as envisioned by Zeus and executed by... More >>

The French Room				2 User Reviews
1321 Commerce St.	New American	$$$$	Downtown & Deep Ellum
The French Room remains one of Dallas’ truly great plunges into dining opulence. Far from French, the cuisine is an inbred mutt of culinary royalty, with genetic specks from a few European corners pestered with American ingenuity and freshened with Japanese anal retentiveness. It’s... More >>

Local				Write a Review
2936 Elm St.	Eclectic, New American	$$$, $$$$	Downtown & Deep Ellum
Slipped into the historic Boyd Hotel, a Deep Ellum spot that made beds for luminaries like Bonnie and Clyde and Huddie Ledbetter, Local serves food that is fiercely simple, fresh and impeccably tight. Flavors dance in these dishes without blurring the palate with fussy complexity. Even simple... More >>

Loft 610 Urban Restaurant & Lounge				2 User Reviews
5760 State Highway 121 #175	Eclectic, Fusion, New American	$$$, $$$$	Plano
Designed to replicate a renovated urban warehouse loft with all of the battered brick and exposed ventilation guts and electrical tendons, Loft 610 is more than just well-trimmed ambiance. The food, while often a little eccentric, is possessed of clean, lithe flavors, from its simple lamb chop... More >>

Lola The Restaurant				Write a Review
2917 Fairmount	New American	$$$$	Uptown & Oak Lawn
Lola hums with simple, elegant flavors, especially with its sautéed foie gras with dried cherry relish. More >>

The Mansion on Turtle Creek				Write a Review
2821 Turtle Creek	New American	$$$$	Uptown & Oak Lawn
New Mansion chef John Tesar is the dark horse on the Dallas dining terrain, the diamond in the pot-holed asphalt rough. This outsider could not compete with or build upon the traditions and culinary movement iconography that unfolded from the Mansion through the decades under the Lucchese-booted... More >>

Nãm Húa Vietnamese Cuisine				Write a Review
3112 N. Jupiter Road	Vietnamese	$	Garland & Vicinity
Set in Saigon Mall, a city-in-strip in what was once the Oakridge Plaza that housed a Target store, Nãm Húa is small and Spartan and utilitarian with stacks of Vietnamese newspapers, a television broadcasting Vietnamese-language programming, and tables with lots of chopsticks, soup... More >>

Nonna				Write a Review
4115 Lomo Alto Drive	Italian	$$$	Uptown & Oak Lawn
This isn’t authentic Italian food in the strict nomenclature of Italian regional cooking. Instead, Nonna—carved out of the foyer of The Food Company catering firm—employs a strict Italian approach (freshness, simplicity) while borrowing and combining ingredients and influences and... More >>

The Oceanaire Seafood Room				Write a Review
13340 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1369	Seafood	$$$, $$$$	North Dallas
If it swims, it flies. The Oceanaire has fresh fish—Arctic char, Shetland Island trout, barracuda, red mullet, smoked sturgeon, thresher shark, blowfish—flown in from every conceivable global spot—Iceland, the East Coast, New Zealand, Panama, South America, Hawaii. The menu is... More >>

Olivella's				1 User Reviews
3406 McFarlin Blvd.	Italian, Pizza	$$	Park Cities
This tiny University Park outpost serves genuine Neapolitan pizza pies smoldered in a brick oven fueled by split oak. Housemade tomato sauce (secret process) is simmered from tomatoes imported from Italy. Housemade mozzarella too. Crust is thin, crackly, moist and pillowy in all the right... More >>

Pappas Brothers Steakhouse				2 User Reviews
10477 Lombardy Lane	Seafood, Steakhouse	$$$$	Northwest Dallas
Pappas violates the order of things: The onion rings, big as brake drums, are stacked into a tower; the shrimp in the shrimp rémoulade could easily serve as stand-ins for the digits that clasped Fay Wray. Tomato in the beefsteak and onion salad? Big as a softball. And it’s split in... More >>

Pastazios Pizza				Write a Review
5026 Addison Circle	Italian, Pizza	$	Addison
Step through the door at Pastazios, and you’re suddenly in a bustling New York pizzeria, where the line moves quickly and the pizza comes in slices so big you have to fold ’em. Pies are fresh, hot and made New York-style: light on sauce with loads of mozzarella and a chewy, hand-tossed... More >>