Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Dallas
This page lists Dallas restaurants from our guide with serious wine programs. Twenty of the 30 hold a Wine Spectator award. Pappas Bros. Steakhouse Dallas in Koreatown holds the Grand Award. Best of Award of Excellence rooms include Nuri Steakhouse in Uptown, Georgie in Oak Lawn, The Mansion Restaurant in Turtle Creek, Monarch in Downtown, and Stillwell's in Victory Park.
Award of Excellence rooms on the list include Fearing's in LoMac, Knox Bistro in Oak Lawn, Mercat Bistro in Victory Park, and Frenchie in Preston Center. Georgie in Oak Lawn has particular depth in California, Burgundy, and Bordeaux, and Knox Bistro in Oak Lawn is strong in Burgundy, Bordeaux, and California. The wine list at Monarch in Downtown spans California, Burgundy, and Italy. The Mansion Restaurant in Turtle Creek has a 7,000-bottle program, and Nuri Steakhouse in Uptown has a 60-page wine list led by a Master Sommelier.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Al Biernat's
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
Avanti Restaurant
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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
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.
Beau Nash
Deep wine list
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
Deep wine list
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.
Catch
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.
Crown Block
Deep wine list
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
Deep wine list
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.
Dolce Riviera
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
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.
Frenchie
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.
Georgie
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.
Haywire
Deep wine list
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
Deep wine list
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
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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
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.
La Stella Cucina Verace - Addison
Deep wine list
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.
Le Bilboquet
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.
Little Blue Bistro
Deep wine list
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.
Mamani
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
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.
Mercat Bistro
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.
Mister Charles
Deep wine list
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.
Monarch
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
Nick & Sam's
Deep wine list
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
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
Pappas Bros. Steakhouse Dallas
Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
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.
Sachet
Deep wine list
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.
SER Steak+Spirits
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
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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
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 French Room
Deep wine list
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.
The Mansion Restaurant
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
Uchi Dallas
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 selected by Stephanie Castaneda. Open nightly from 4 pm, it anchors a stretch of Uptown already dense with serious dining options.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Dallas
- Which restaurant on this list holds the Wine Spectator Grand Award?
- Pappas Bros. Steakhouse Dallas in Koreatown holds the Wine Spectator Grand Award for 2026, and it is the one Grand Award on this list. The steakhouse keeps an exceptional wine program staffed by up to four certified sommeliers, including a Master Sommelier. Beef is dry-aged in house. The restaurant also holds a Star Wine List citation.
- Which neighborhoods on this list have a Best of Award of Excellence?
- Best of Award of Excellence restaurants on this list are in Uptown, Oak Lawn, Turtle Creek, Downtown, Victory Park, Perry Heights, LoMac, and Dallas Market Center. Uptown has Nuri Steakhouse, Dolce Riviera, and Catch. The others are Georgie in Oak Lawn, The Mansion Restaurant in Turtle Creek, Monarch in Downtown, Stillwell's in Victory Park, Al Biernat's in Perry Heights, Avra Dallas in LoMac, and SER Steak+Spirits in Dallas Market Center.
- What wine list sizes are on this list?
- Among the bottle counts on this list, The Mansion Restaurant in Turtle Creek has a 7,000-bottle wine program, the highest. Mercat Bistro in Victory Park has a 500-bottle list weighted toward France. Georgie in Oak Lawn has 3,200 bottles on its list.
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