The Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Dallas

Dallas's selection covers 22 restaurants, including Georgie, Monarch and Nuri Steakhouse, with deep wine lists in the En Primeur Club guide or recognition from the World's Best Wine Lists awards. Several are in Uptown. Many have recognition from independent sources including Wine Spectator and Michelin.

We choose venues by weighing recognition from independent critics, guides and awards. Read the entries in alphabetical order. Each shows the venue's town or city, a short description and awards from independent sources, with a link to its full guide page.

How this list is chosen: Every restaurant here pours from a deep wine list or is recognized by the World's Best Wine Lists awards. En Primeur Club chooses among them by weighing recognition from independent critics, guides and awards. Entries appear in alphabetical order.

Al Biernat's
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Since 1998, Al Biernat's has anchored Oak Lawn's power-dining circuit, drawing Dallas deal-makers and regulars with prime-aged steaks, fresh seafood, and a wine list built for serious tables. The room operates as a social institution as much as a restaurant, where the crowd is part of the experience and a reservation at the right hour signals you know how this city works.
Also recognized by World's Best Steaks
Avanti Restaurant
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Avanti Restaurant serves Italian-Mediterranean dinner at 2720 McKinney Ave in Dallas, with an extensive wine list, live music, and dishes such as Pasta Bolognese and Osso Buco.
Beau Nash
Dallas, United States
Beau Nash belongs to the Crescent Court orbit of Dallas dining, where hotel-adjacent polish meets the city’s appetite for flexible all-day drinking and eating. The useful way to read it is through context: Uptown has become a zone where sourcing language, service rhythm, and room energy matter as much as cuisine labels.
Bullion
Dallas, United States
Bullion occupies a gold-accented space at 400 S Record Street in Dallas's Arts District, setting a clear tone for what follows: French-influenced cooking positioned at the upper end of the city's fine dining tier. The menu architecture here reads as a considered statement about where Dallas upscale dining has arrived — structured, technically assured, and priced to compete with the city's most serious rooms.
Crown Block
Dallas, United States
Crown Block holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognitions (2024 and 2025), placing it among the small tier of Dallas restaurants earning sustained guide attention. Positioned at Reunion Boulevard in the western edge of downtown, it operates in the American Contemporary register at the summit of the Dallas price range, drawing a crowd that skews toward business dining and destination visitors rather than neighbourhood regulars.
Delucca Pizza & Wine - Dallas
Dallas, United States
On Oak Lawn Avenue in Dallas's Design District fringe, Delucca Pizza & Wine delivers a focused Italian-American format built around pizza and a thoughtful wine list. The room's casual confidence fits the neighbourhood's shift toward serious-but-unstuffy dining, placing Delucca in a tier above fast-casual without the formality of destination Italian. For Dallas diners tracking the city's mid-range Italian scene, it earns a consistent return visit.
Georgie
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Georgie holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 and sits on Travis Street in Dallas's Knox-Henderson corridor, operating at the upper end of the city's steakhouse tier. The wine list runs to around 1,000 selections and 3,200 bottles, with particular depth in California, Burgundy, and Bordeaux. Dinner only, with pricing consistent with the city's premium American dining bracket.
Also recognized by James Beard Award, Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards
Haywire
Dallas, United States
On McKinney Avenue, Haywire occupies a stretch of Uptown Dallas where modern Texas cooking and Western-influenced design converge. The restaurant draws from the state's ranching and agricultural traditions while reflecting the neighborhood's shift toward polished, ingredient-forward dining. It sits in a tier of Dallas restaurants where the food makes a clear argument about where Texas cuisine is heading.
III Forks - Addison
Dallas, United States
III Forks in Addison sits at the denser, more formal end of Dallas steakhouse dining, where the service model and wine program carry as much weight as the beef. Located on Belt Line Road in Addison's restaurant corridor, it draws a clientele that treats the room as a destination rather than a stopover. The format is classic American steakhouse, executed with deliberate team coordination across kitchen, floor, and cellar.
il Bracco
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
il Bracco occupies a measured position in Preston Center Plaza, drawing Dallas diners who want Italian-leaning cooking in a setting calibrated for occasion meals rather than casual drop-ins. The address places it within a well-established North Dallas dining corridor where the competition runs from steakhouses to high-end Japanese. A reservation is advisable for anyone treating the evening as more than routine.
La Stella Cucina Verace - Addison
Dallas, United States
La Stella Cucina Verace brings southern Italian cooking to the Addison corridor of Dallas, a stretch of Preston Road that has quietly accumulated some of the city's more interesting mid-to-upper-tier dining. The format sits within a broader Dallas shift toward regional Italian specificity, where cucina verace — honest, place-rooted cooking — is the operative principle rather than a red-sauce catch-all. For the Preston Road corridor, it occupies a meaningful position in a neighborhood not overserved by serious Italian options.
Little Blue Bistro
Dallas, United States
Little Blue Bistro belongs to a Dallas dining tier where wine is not an accessory but part of the meal’s architecture. Its 2025 Wine Enthusiast Best Wine Restaurants recognition places it within the city’s growing conversation around sourcing, cellar intent, and neighborhood-scale restaurants that treat drinking and eating as one decision.
Also recognized by Wine Enthusiast
Mamani
Dallas, United States
1 Michelin star
Mamani earned a Michelin star in 2025, placing it among a small cohort of Dallas restaurants recognized at that level. Located on Howell Street in the Uptown corridor, it represents the city's growing argument that fine dining here runs on its own terms rather than in imitation of coastal models. For anyone tracking where Dallas dining is heading, Mamani is a primary data point.
Mister Charles
Dallas, United States
Mister Charles occupies the landmarked former Highland Park Soda Fountain Building on Knox Street, where 38-foot ceilings frame a program of French and Italian cooking built for occasion dining. Duro Hospitality's most ambitious venture holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 and sits at the upper end of Dallas contemporary dining, with a cocktail and rare wine program that runs alongside the food.
Also recognized by OpenTable
Monarch
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Positioned on the 49th floor of 1401 Elm Street, Monarch brings Italian-American cooking to Dallas's upper dining tier, backed by Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025 and a wine list of 2,500 selections spanning California, Burgundy, and Italy. The room's elevation makes the city's grid a constant backdrop, while the kitchen and sommelier team operate at a level that places Monarch firmly in Dallas's upper-end conversation alongside steakhouse stalwarts and contemporary tasting-menu formats.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Nick & Sam's
Dallas, United States
Nick & Sam's on Maple Avenue occupies a firm position in Dallas's upscale steakhouse tier, where the city's appetite for prime beef meets a kitchen that draws on technique well beyond the grill. A large-format room, an extensive wine program, and a menu that spans seafood towers to dry-aged cuts make it a reliable anchor for the kind of dinner that demands both scale and precision.
Nuri Steakhouse
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Nuri Steakhouse in Uptown Dallas places Texas prime beef and Korean culinary tradition on the same plate. The kitchen runs a high-temperature broiler reaching 1,600°F, sources cattle from 44 Farms and Blue Branch Ranch, and draws on Seoul-trained direction alongside Gordon Ramsay North America lineage. Star Wine List recognised the program three times in 2026, including a White Star designation.
Also recognized by Star Wine List, World's Best Steaks, World's Best Wine Lists Awards
Pappas Bros. Steakhouse Dallas
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Grand Award
Pappas Bros. Steakhouse on Lombardy Lane operates at the serious end of Dallas beef culture, where an in-house butcher program and a minimum 21-day dry-aging process define every cut served. The wine program holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List and a 3-Star Accreditation from the World of Fine Wine & Lifestyle Awards, placing it well above the standard steakhouse cellar.
Also recognized by Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards
Sachet
Dallas, United States
The price point sits at mid-range for the neighbourhood, making it one of the more accessible entries in Dallas's Michelin-acknowledged dining tier. Reservations are advisable, particularly on weekends.
Also recognized by World's Best Wine Lists Awards
Stillwell's
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A Michelin Plate-recognised steakhouse on McKinnon Street in Dallas's Uptown, Stillwell's combines a serious $$$$ kitchen with one of the city's deeper wine programs — 1,150 selections backed by a three-person sommelier team covering Champagne, Burgundy, Bordeaux, Rhône, California, Piedmont, and Tuscany.
The French Room
Dallas, United States
The French Room sits inside the Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, operating in a tier of American fine dining that prioritizes sourced ingredients and classical technique over trend-chasing. Recognized on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, the room sets a formal register that is increasingly rare in a city that has moved sharply toward casual formats over the past decade.
Also recognized by Resy
The Mansion Restaurant
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
The signature restaurant of Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek has anchored Dallas fine dining for more than three decades. Chef Charles Olalia leads an American menu with French technique — gulf seafood, locally sourced proteins, and a 7,000-bottle wine program ranked among North America's serious dining rooms by Opinionated About Dining three years running. Business casual dress; lunch and dinner daily, brunch on weekends.
Also recognized by Forbes, Opinionated About Dining

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