Wine Spectator Award-Winning Restaurants in Dallas

For Dallas restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award, this list includes 20 venues, including Fearing's, Georgie and Nuri Steakhouse. The awards come from Wine Spectator. Several restaurants are in Uptown and LoMac, and many also have recognition from Michelin or Opinionated About Dining.

We choose venues by weighing recognition from independent critics, guides and awards. Entries are 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 holds a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award. When more qualify than the list can hold, 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.
Avra Dallas
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Avra Dallas brings the Greek-Mediterranean tradition of ingredient-forward cooking to the Crescent Court, positioning itself in a Dallas fine dining tier where seafood and olive oil-driven menus remain a relative rarity. The format follows the Avra model established in New York and Beverly Hills: whole fish, raw bar, and shareable mezze built around quality imports rather than culinary spectacle.
Catch
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Catch occupies a Maple Avenue address in Dallas's Uptown corridor, positioning itself within a neighborhood that has become one of the city's more concentrated stretches of ambitious dining. The venue draws from the same energy that defines Uptown after dark — animated, image-conscious, and oriented toward a crowd that treats dinner as a social event as much as a meal.
Dolce Riviera
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Dolce Riviera brings an Italian-inflected dining concept to Dallas's Uptown corridor at 2950 N Harwood Street, positioning itself within a neighborhood that has grown increasingly competitive at the mid-to-upper price tier. The address places it steps from some of the city's more established Italian and European-leaning rooms, making it a reference point for how the genre is evolving in North Texas.
Fearing's
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Fearing's at The Ritz-Carlton Dallas sits at the serious end of the city's Southwestern dining tier, earning consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025 and an Opinionated About Dining North America ranking. Chef Dean Fearing draws on Southern and barbecue traditions rooted in regional sourcing, placing the restaurant firmly in Dallas's premium American dining conversation.
Also recognized by Forbes, Opinionated About Dining
Frenchie
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
A 2025 Resy Best of the Hit List honoree in Dallas's Preston Center, Frenchie sits inside the city's growing tier of French-influenced dining rooms that earn national notice without chasing maximalist spectacle. The address puts it inside one of Dallas's more polished commercial nodes, and the recognition signals a kitchen operating with enough consistency to catch Resy's editorial eye across a competitive national field.
Also recognized by Resy
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
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.
Knox Bistro
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Knox Bistro holds a Michelin Plate and sits inside Knox-Henderson's most concentrated stretch of serious dining. Chef Bruno Davaillon's French menu runs lunch and dinner at a two-course price point around $40–$65, backed by a wine list of 225 selections and 1,400 bottles strong in Burgundy, Bordeaux, and California. It is one of the few places in Dallas where classical French structure and a deep cellar occupy the same mid-range price tier.
Le Bilboquet
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Le Bilboquet brings the Parisian brasserie format to Knox-Henderson, one of Dallas's most concentrated dining corridors. The Travis Street address positions it between neighborhood regulars and visitors drawn by the broader French-inflected dining scene that the original New York outpost established. For a city that has spent a decade building genuine fine-casual ambition, it fits a recognizable niche.
Mercat Bistro
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Mercat Bistro holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025, placing it among Dallas's recognized French dining addresses. Chef Israel Fearon and Wine Director Jaime Smith operate within a mid-price bracket that makes classic French technique accessible without the formality of a full tasting-menu commitment. Located in the Harwood District, it serves lunch and dinner with a 500-bottle wine list weighted toward France.
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
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
SER Steak+Spirits
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
On the 27th floor of a Stemmons Freeway tower, SER Steak+Spirits delivers the kind of refined steakhouse format that Dallas does with particular conviction: serious beef, a spirits program with range, and a cityscape that reframes the experience. Within the Dallas high-rise dining tier, it occupies a competitive position alongside destination steakhouses that treat the room itself as part of the proposition.
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.
STK - Dallas
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
STK Dallas occupies a high-profile address on McKinney Avenue, positioning itself in the upper tier of Dallas steakhouse dining where the room's energy is as deliberate as the menu. The format splits between serious beef cookery and a nightlife-adjacent atmosphere, making it a natural anchor for celebrations that want both substance and spectacle. For milestone occasions in a city that takes steakhouses seriously, it competes on a different register than the traditional Texas chop-house model.
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
Uchi Dallas
Dallas, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Uchi Dallas brings the Austin original's Japan-informed cooking to Maple Avenue, where it has earned consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognition in North America since 2023. Chef Alex Astranti leads a menu rooted in Japanese technique with American inflection, backed by a 1,300-bottle wine inventory curated by Stephanie Castaneda. Open nightly from 4 pm, it anchors a stretch of Uptown already dense with serious dining options.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining

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