50 Best Restaurants in Dallas 2026: Ultimate Dining Guide

Best Restaurants in Dallas — From James Beard Tasting Menus to the Finest Beef Rib in Deep Ellum

By Travel Tourister | Updated March 2026 Dallas’s restaurant scene is the most rapidly evolving and the most consistently underestimated in Texas — a city where Lucia in the Bishop Arts District produces the finest house-made pasta and charcuterie in DFW from a James Beard-nominated kitchen that most visitors have never heard of, where Pecan Lodge in Deep Ellum has been turning out the most celebrated brisket accessible within Dallas city limits since 2010 from a counter that runs out of beef ribs by 1 PM on any given Friday, where Knife serves dry-aged beef at durations (240 days) that produce flavors unavailable at any other Dallas steakhouse, where Trompo on McKinney Avenue cuts taco al pastor directly from a spinning spit in a neighborhood taqueria that opened five years ago and now draws food critics from Houston and Austin, and where the James Beard Foundation has been recognizing Dallas and Fort Worth chefs with nominations and wins that have collectively rewritten the national understanding of what serious cooking in North Texas actually is. I’ve eaten my way through Dallas across multiple visits and every neighborhood — the Lucia charcuterie board on a Sunday evening in Bishop Arts when the dining room was full of Oak Cliff residents who eat here every week, the Pecan Lodge beef rib on a Thursday noon when the Deep Ellum crowd spilled onto the sidewalk and the beef rib was the most visually dramatic plate I’d been served in North Texas, the Knife 240-day dry-aged ribeye that tasted like concentrated beef in a way that no shorter-aged steak approaches, the Trompo al pastor cut from the spit at 12:30 PM when the lunch crowd was exactly right, the Mot Hai Ba Vietnamese at the AT&T Discovery District when the bún bò Huế was as good as anything I’d eaten in Houston’s best Vietnamese corridor, and the Boulevardier natural wine selection that made Knox-Henderson’s restaurant strip feel genuinely grown-up. Each meal confirmed the same truth: Dallas’s finest food is in the neighborhoods, not the hotel corridor, and the visitor who takes the free DART Streetcar to Bishop Arts or the McKinney Avenue Trolley to Knox-Henderson will eat significantly better than the one who stays in the West End Historic District’s tourist-facing restaurants. This comprehensive 2026 guide covers Dallas’s 50 best restaurants using verified information from James Beard Foundation awards and nominations, Texas Monthly restaurant coverage, and years of on-the-ground dining expertise. We organize restaurants by category — fine dining and James Beard, BBQ, Tex-Mex and tacos, neighborhood gems, steakhouses, international, brunch, and budget essentials — with realistic costs, reservation guidance, and the honest strategic advice for eating brilliantly across Dallas’s full and genuinely excellent range.

Dallas Restaurants by Category

Fine Dining & James Beard Restaurants

1. Lucia (Bishop Arts District) — DALLAS’S FINEST RESTAURANT

Why It’s Essential: David Uygur’s Bishop Arts Italian restaurant — James Beard Award nominee for Best Chef: Southwest, the most consistently praised restaurant in Dallas by the city’s food community — produces the finest house-cured charcuterie and house-made pasta in the DFW area from a 38-seat dining room on W. 8th Street in Oak Cliff that has been the most coveted dinner reservation in Dallas since it opened in 2011. Uygur’s cooking reflects genuine Italian regional scholarship: the salumi program (prosciutto, coppa, lardo, ‘nduja) cured in-house with the rigor of a northern Italian salumeria, the pasta made fresh daily with the technique of an Emilian home kitchen, and the seasonal menu built entirely around what Texas farms and Gulf Coast fisheries deliver that week.
What to Order:

• The charcuterie board: The most essential beginning to any Lucia meal — house-cured prosciutto, coppa, ‘nduja, and lardo with house-made pickles and grilled bread. The most technically accomplished charcuterie in Dallas ($22–$28)
• House-made pasta: The menu changes seasonally, but the pasta is always the kitchen’s primary strength — tagliatelle with ragù, tortellini en brodo, and the weekly pasta special that the server will describe with genuine enthusiasm ($26–$34)
• The wine list: The most specifically Italian wine list at any Dallas restaurant — deep in natural producers from Friuli, Piedmont, and Sicily, with genuine sommelier knowledge behind every recommendation

Reservations: OpenTable; 3–4 weeks ahead for weekend evenings; luciadallas.com; 408 W. 8th Street, Bishop Arts District, Dallas Cost: $65–$100/person

2. Knife (Highland Park Village)

Why Essential: John Tesar’s steakhouse and charcuterie operation in Highland Park Village — the most technically ambitious dry-aging program in Dallas, with beef aged up to 240 days producing flavors unavailable at any other Dallas steakhouse, and a charcuterie program that makes Knife simultaneously the finest steakhouse and the finest cured meat destination in DFW. The 240-day dry-aged ribeye is not merely a novelty — the enzymatic breakdown at that duration produces a concentrated, nutty, almost blue cheese-adjacent beef flavor that is genuinely unlike any shorter-aged steak and unlike anything available elsewhere in Dallas.

• The 240-day dry-aged beef: The most dramatically aged beef at any Dallas restaurant — the flavor concentration of 240 days of controlled enzymatic breakdown; $125–$180 for the extreme dry-age cuts
• The 45-day dry-aged bone-in ribeye: The most ordered Knife preparation for first-time visitors — the 45-day aging produces intense flavor with more accessible pricing ($85–$110)
• The charcuterie program: Knife cures its own salumi in-house — the prosciutto and the house bresaola are the most technically refined preparations at the restaurant

Reservations: OpenTable; 2–3 weeks ahead; knifedallas.com; 3535 Travis Street, Highland Park Village Cost: $85–$175/person

3. Stampede 66 (Arts District)

• Stephan Pyles’s Arts District restaurant — a James Beard Award winner whose decades of cooking have defined the contemporary Texas cuisine category, with a menu at Stampede 66 that celebrates Texas ingredients (Hill Country lamb, Gulf Coast seafood, Texas wagyu) in preparations that are simultaneously technically sophisticated and deeply rooted in the state’s food heritage
• Texas wagyu preparations: The house protein strength — Pyles’s approach to Texas-raised Wagyu beef represents the most culinarily ambitious interpretation of the Texas cattle tradition accessible in the Arts District
• The setting: A dining room designed to celebrate rather than apologize for Texas’s cultural identity — the most thematically coherent restaurant interior in the Arts District
• Reservations: OpenTable; stephanpyles.com; 1717 McKinney Avenue; Cost: $55–$90/person

4. Bullion (Downtown Arts District)

• Bruno Davaillon’s French-influenced downtown restaurant in the Arts District — the most technically French and the most precisely executed fine dining in downtown Dallas, with a tasting menu format that reflects Davaillon’s training in the French tradition and a wine program of genuine Burgundy and Champagne depth
• The tasting menu: 6–8 courses, $110–$140/person — the most classically French tasting menu experience available in Dallas
• The bar and à la carte: The most accessible entry point to Bullion’s cooking — the bar menu ($45–$65/person) delivers the kitchen’s technical accomplishment at the most affordable dining room cost in the building
• Reservations: OpenTable; bullion.restaurant; 1900 Pearl Street, Arts District; Cost: tasting menu $110–$140; bar $45–$65

5. Komali (Uptown)

• Abraham Salum’s Uptown Mexican restaurant — the most sophisticated and the most regionally specific Mexican cuisine in Dallas, with a menu that draws from Mexico’s interior regional traditions (Oaxacan mole negro, Yucatecan cochinita pibil, Veracruz seafood preparations) with a technical rigor unavailable at Dallas’s Tex-Mex institutions
• Mole negro: The house signature — a three-day Oaxacan mole preparation of genuine depth and genuine scholarship ($28–$34)
• Reservations: OpenTable; komalidallas.com; 4152 Cole Avenue, Uptown; Cost: $55–$85/person

6. Mirador (Harwood District)

• The most scenically positioned restaurant in Dallas — Mirador’s rooftop terrace atop the Museum Tower (adjacent to the Nasher Sculpture Center) delivers the finest rooftop dining view in Dallas, with the Arts District’s architectural skyline and the Nasher’s live oak garden visible below. The Baja California-influenced menu (fresh ceviches, wood-fire preparations, the most creative tequila and mezcal program in the Arts District) matches the setting’s ambition.
• The rooftop terrace: The finest outdoor dining view in Dallas — the Winspear Opera House’s red disc canopy, the Nasher’s glass building, and the skyline from the Museum Tower’s 12th floor
• Reservations: OpenTable; miradordallas.com; Museum Tower, Arts District; Cost: $55–$90/person

Dallas BBQ

7. Pecan Lodge (Deep Ellum) — BEST BBQ IN DALLAS

Why Essential: Justin and Diane Fourton’s Deep Ellum BBQ institution — ranked in the Texas Monthly Top 50, producing the most celebrated brisket and beef ribs accessible within Dallas city limits — has been the standard-bearer for serious Central Texas BBQ in Dallas since 2010. The beef rib (approximately 2 lbs per rib, post-oak smoked for 12+ hours) is the most visually impressive and the most flavor-dense single plate available at any Dallas BBQ restaurant. The brisket’s smoke ring, bark, and fat render are the closest thing to the Lockhart and Austin standard available without driving 3 hours south on I-35.

• Beef rib: The house showpiece — approximately 2 lbs of post-oak smoked short rib with the most dramatic plate presentation in Dallas BBQ ($28–$35/rib); sells out by 1–2 PM on most days; arrive before noon
• Brisket: The house standard — the fatty brisket (the “moist” cut, from the point rather than the flat) is the most flavorful and the most honest expression of the Central Texas tradition available in Dallas ($20–$26/lb)
• The jalapeño cheese sausage: House-made, with visible cheese pockets — the finest house sausage at any Dallas BBQ restaurant ($9–$11/link)
• Arrive before noon: The beef ribs and the fattier brisket cuts sell out by 1–2 PM; ordering at opening (11 AM) guarantees the full menu

Reservations: Walk-in; pecanlodge.com; 2702 Main Street, Deep Ellum, Dallas; open Wednesday–Sunday 11 AM until sold out Cost: $20–$35/person

8. Lockhart Smokehouse (Bishop Arts District)

Why Essential: The Dallas outpost of the Lockhart BBQ tradition — the Karnes family (descendants of the original Kreuz Market bloodline) operating the Kreuz Market’s no-sauce, butcher-paper tradition in a converted brick building on W. Davis Street in Bishop Arts. The shoulder clod (a cut rarely available at other Dallas BBQ operations, cooked 18–20 hours over post-oak) and the brisket maintain the Kreuz tradition’s standards in the most historically grounded BBQ operation in Dallas proper.

• Shoulder clod: The Kreuz-tradition preparation — an 18–20 hour post-oak shoulder cut unavailable at most Dallas BBQ restaurants; the most specifically Central Texas BBQ cut accessible in the Bishop Arts area ($18–$22/lb)
• No sauce: The Lockhart Smokehouse maintains the Kreuz tradition’s no-sauce policy — the smoke and the salt-and-pepper rub are the only seasoning required
• The Bishop Arts setting: The most atmospherically appropriate BBQ setting in Dallas — a converted brick building on W. Davis Street in the most walkable neighborhood in the city

Cost: $18–$28/person; lockhartsmokehouse.com; 400 W. Davis Street, Bishop Arts; open daily 11 AM–9 PM

9. Cattleack Barbeque (Farmers Branch)

• Todd David’s Farmers Branch operation — consistently ranked in the Texas Monthly Top 50 BBQ list and producing brisket and ribs of genuine Central Texas quality in a suburban Dallas location that requires 25 minutes of driving from downtown but rewards that investment with some of the finest BBQ available in the DFW area. The limited schedule (Thursday and Friday lunch plus the first Saturday of each month) requires planning but produces the highest-quality BBQ accessible from Dallas without driving to Lockhart or Lexington.
• Open Thursday–Friday only (plus first Saturday): The most limited schedule at any well-regarded Dallas area BBQ restaurant — arrive by 11 AM opening for the best cut selection; sold out by 1–2 PM
• Brisket quality: The smoke ring and bark are the closest to the Austin standard available in the DFW suburban area

Cost: $18–$28/person; cattleackbbq.com; 13628 Gamma Road, Farmers Branch; Thursday–Friday 11 AM until sold out + first Saturday monthly

10. Terry Black’s Barbecue (Dallas)

• The Dallas location of the Austin family institution — Terry Black’s brings the Austin-adjacent BBQ standard to Uptown Dallas with the same post-oak brisket, beef ribs, and jalapeño cheddar sausage that the Austin original produces, in a higher-volume format that maintains more consistent availability than the smaller local operations that sell out earlier in the day. The most accessible consistently excellent BBQ in Uptown Dallas proper.
• Brisket: The most reliably available excellent brisket in Uptown Dallas — higher volume than Pecan Lodge means more consistent availability through the afternoon

Cost: $18–$28/person; terryblacksbbq.com; 3025 Main Street, Dallas; daily 11 AM–9 PM

Tex-Mex & Taco Restaurants

11. Trompo (McKinney Avenue) — BEST TACOS IN DALLAS

Why Essential: Trompo on McKinney Avenue is the finest taco restaurant in Dallas — specifically the taco al pastor cut directly from a spinning trompo spit in the open kitchen, the most photogenically correct and the most flavor-accurate taco al pastor in the city. The cook shaves the marinated pork directly from the rotating vertical spit onto the corn tortilla, topping it with charred pineapple from the spit’s crown, onion, cilantro, and the house salsa verde. It is $3–$4 each. It is the most specifically correct Dallas taco available at any price.

• Taco al pastor: Cut directly from the visible spinning trompo spit — the most photogenically and flavor-accurately correct al pastor in Dallas ($3–$4 each)
• The spit: The actual trompo — visible in the open kitchen, the marinated pork slowly rotating and caramelizing against the vertical broiler, the pineapple at the crown basting the meat as it cooks; the most honest and the most traditionally Mexican taco preparation in the city
• The corn tortillas: House-pressed, slightly charred — the most important element after the meat, and the most consistently excellent at any Dallas taqueria

Cost: $3–$4/taco; trompo.com; 3622 McKinney Avenue, Knox-Henderson; open daily

12. Meso Maya (Multiple Dallas Locations)

• The most serious and the most regionally specific Tex-Mex restaurant in the Dallas chain category — Meso Maya’s menus draw from the interior Mexican regional traditions (Oaxacan, Veracruz, and Yucatecan preparations) that most Dallas Tex-Mex restaurants have never engaged with, producing a dining experience that is simultaneously more genuinely Mexican and more technically accomplished than most Dallas casual Mexican restaurants
• Cochinita pibil: The Yucatecan slow-roasted pork in achiote and sour orange — the most regionally specific Mexican preparation at any Dallas restaurant in the Meso Maya price range ($18–$22)
• Reservations: OpenTable; mesomaya.com; multiple Dallas locations; Cost: $30–$55/person

13. El Fenix (Multiple Dallas Locations)

• The Dallas Tex-Mex institution since 1918 — the oldest Tex-Mex restaurant in Dallas, serving the combination plate (cheese enchiladas, rice, beans, and a tamale) that defined Dallas Tex-Mex for four generations of Dallas families. Not the most ambitious kitchen in Dallas — it is the most continuous and the most historically rooted, and the cheese enchiladas with chili gravy at the original Henderson Avenue location are the most honest expression of the Dallas Tex-Mex tradition accessible at any price.
• The combination plate: Cheese enchiladas, rice, beans, and tamale — the $14–$18 plate that has been on the El Fenix menu continuously since Woodrow Wilson was president

Cost: $18–$30/person; elfenix.com; multiple Dallas locations; open daily

14. Velvet Taco (Multiple Dallas Locations)

• The Dallas-born gourmet taco concept that has been nationally franchised — Velvet Taco’s weekly rotating “WTF” (Weekly Taco Feature) and the permanent menu of globally inspired taco fillings (spicy tikka masala chicken taco, Nashville hot chicken taco, falafel taco) represent the most ambitious flavor range available at any Dallas taqueria, even if the Central Texas BBQ purist will note that none of it is a traditional taco al pastor
• WTF Taco (Weekly Taco Feature): The most anticipated single taco in Dallas every week — announced Monday morning on social media, available through Sunday

Cost: $5–$8/taco; velvettaco.com; multiple Dallas locations

15. The Rustic (Uptown)

• The most social and the most specifically Dallas casual dining experience in Uptown — a converted warehouse with a massive outdoor patio, live Texas country and Americana music 7 nights a week, an outdoor bar serving the most comprehensive Texas craft beer and whiskey selection in Uptown, and a menu of elevated Texas comfort food (the smoked brisket flatbread, the queso fundido with chorizo) that justifies the visit independent of the music and the scene
• Live music 7 nights: The most consistent live Texas music in Uptown — the covered outdoor stage and the patio culture make The Rustic the most authentic Texas honky-tonk experience accessible without driving to Fort Worth

Cost: $25–$45/person; therustic.com; 3656 Howell Street, Uptown; open daily

Steakhouses

16. Nick & Sam’s (Uptown) — DALLAS’S MOST CELEBRATED STEAKHOUSE

• The Uptown steakhouse that has been the Dallas business entertainment venue of choice since 1999 — a dry-aged prime beef operation with a seafood raw bar of genuine quality, the most comprehensive Japanese whiskey selection at any Dallas steakhouse, and the specific atmosphere of a classic American steakhouse that has survived two decades of Dallas restaurant trend cycles by being genuinely excellent rather than fashionably ambitious
• The dry-aged prime porterhouse: The house signature — USDA prime, 28-day dry-aged, the most reliably excellent single steak at any Dallas steakhouse ($85–$105)
• Seafood raw bar: The most comprehensive raw bar at any Dallas steakhouse — Gulf oysters, Alaskan king crab, and the freshest seafood tower in the Uptown corridor
• Reservations: OpenTable; nickandsams.com; 3008 Maple Avenue, Uptown; Cost: $90–$165/person

17. Bob’s Steak & Chop House (Uptown / Multiple Locations)

• The Dallas steakhouse institution since 1994 — Bob’s consistent dry-aged prime beef, the signature enormous glazed carrot served with every entrée, and the most reliably excellent traditional American steakhouse experience in Dallas at a price point that makes it the most frequently returned-to steakhouse in the city for regular visitors
• The glazed carrot: A Bob’s signature that has been mocked, loved, and imitated since 1994 — a single enormous glazed carrot served as the entrée’s standard accompaniment, the most specifically Bob’s element of the meal

Cost: $75–$130/person; bobs-steakandchop.com; multiple Dallas locations

18. III Forks (Uptown)

• The most Dallas-specific steakhouse concept — III Forks’ combination of prime beef, an extensive Texas wine list (the most complete collection of Texas wine available at any Dallas steakhouse), and a dining room that reflects the specific Texas steakhouse aesthetic make it the most locally rooted of the major Dallas upscale steakhouses

Cost: $80–$150/person; iiiforks.com; 17776 Dallas Parkway, North Dallas

Neighborhood Restaurants

19. Boulevardier (Knox-Henderson) — BEST WINE BAR IN DALLAS

Why Essential: Braden Wages’s Knox-Henderson wine bar and bistro — the most carefully curated natural wine program at any Dallas restaurant, served alongside a seasonal small plates menu that demonstrates more culinary intelligence per dollar than any other restaurant in the Knox-Henderson corridor. The combination of the natural wine list (primarily French, Italian, and Spanish producers with genuine provenance and drinking pleasure), the charcuterie and cheese program, and the seasonal market vegetables has made Boulevardier the most specifically grown-up dining experience in Knox-Henderson — and the most frequently recommended Dallas restaurant by the city’s food professionals when asked where they eat on their nights off.

• The natural wine list: The most specifically curated natural wine program in Dallas — French biodynamic producers, Italian natural growers, and the Spanish small-production bottles that most Dallas wine lists ignore; the staff knowledge behind every recommendation is genuine
• Charcuterie and cheese: The most carefully sourced boards in Knox-Henderson — French and Italian artisan producers, the finest accompaniments in the neighborhood
• Seasonal vegetable preparations: The kitchen’s most celebrated work — the weekly-changing market vegetables are the most consistently excellent non-protein preparations accessible in Knox-Henderson

Reservations: Walk-in bar available; OpenTable for dining room; boulevardierdallas.com; 408 N. Bishop Avenue, Knox-Henderson Cost: $45–$75/person

20. Hattie’s (Bishop Arts District)

• The Bishop Arts District brunch institution — the neighborhood restaurant that the Oak Cliff community has been eating Sunday brunch at since 2001, with the most consistently excellent chicken and waffles in Dallas, the finest Bloody Mary in the Bishop Arts District, and the specific Sunday morning energy of a neighborhood restaurant that serves the community first and tourists second
• Chicken and waffles: The house signature — the most ordered dish at Hattie’s Sunday brunch for years; the fried chicken, the housemade waffle, and the maple-sriracha combination that is the most specifically Hattie’s preparation ($16–$20)
• Walk-in only: No reservations; weekend waits of 30–60 minutes; the Bishop Arts Saturday/Sunday morning atmosphere is worth the wait

Cost: $18–$30/person; hattiesrestaurant.com; 418 N. Bishop Avenue, Bishop Arts; open daily for brunch and dinner

21. Mot Hai Ba (AT&T Discovery District)

• Peja Krstic’s Vietnamese restaurant in the AT&T Discovery District — the finest Vietnamese food accessible from downtown Dallas, with a bún bò Huế (central Vietnamese beef and pork noodle soup spiced with lemongrass, fermented shrimp paste, and chili) that rivals the finest examples available in Houston’s Bellaire Vietnamese corridor. The most technically accomplished and most regionally specific Vietnamese cooking in Dallas.
• Bún bò Huế: The house signature — the spicier, more complex central Vietnamese noodle soup that is genuinely superior to phở for the visitor willing to explore beyond the most recognized Vietnamese preparation ($14–$18)
• Cost: $20–$35/person; mothhaiba.com; AT&T Discovery District, downtown Dallas

22. Gemma (Uptown)

• Graham Dodds’s Uptown neighborhood restaurant — the most farm-to-table and the most seasonally responsive of the major Uptown dining rooms, with a wood-fire kitchen that produces the finest roasted vegetable preparations and the most locally sourced protein menu accessible from the McKinney Avenue corridor
• Wood-fire roasted preparations: The kitchen’s primary strength — Texas farm vegetables and Gulf Coast proteins in wood-fire preparations that produce a char and smokiness unavailable at gas-kitchen restaurants
• Reservations: OpenTable; gemmarestaurant.com; 2323 N. Henderson Avenue, Uptown; Cost: $50–$80/person

23. Bolsa (Bishop Arts District)

• The farm-to-table restaurant that helped put Bishop Arts on the Dallas culinary map — a converted 1950s garage with a seasonal menu built around direct relationships with North Texas farms, the most consistent long-form farm-to-table commitment in the Bishop Arts restaurant community, and the finest cocktail program in the neighborhood
• The seasonal menu: Changes entirely with the Texas growing calendar — the most ingredient-responsive kitchen in Bishop Arts, with a specific North Texas agricultural geography that makes the menu’s provenance immediately comprehensible
• Reservations: OpenTable; bolsadallas.com; 614 W. Davis Street, Bishop Arts; Cost: $45–$75/person

24. Uchi Dallas (Design District)

• Tyson Cole’s Design District location of the James Beard Award-winning Uchi concept — the same hama chili (yellowtail sashimi with yuzu, serrano, and crispy shallots), the same omakase counter format, and the same Texas-ingredient-meets-Japanese-technique philosophy that makes the Austin original Dallas’s most nationally recognized fine dining import
• Hama chili: The Uchi signature across all locations — the most ordered single preparation at the Design District opening ($18–$22)
• Reservations: OpenTable; uchirestaurants.com/dallas; Design District; Cost: $65–$130/person

25. Hide (Uptown)

• The most subterranean and the most inventive cocktail bar in Dallas — a below-grade speakeasy-format bar in Uptown with the most creative cocktail program in the city, using house-made bitters, rotary evaporator-clarified spirits, and the most technically ambitious drink preparations in North Texas. The bar food (small plates designed for cocktail pairing) is the finest pairing-specific kitchen in Dallas’s bar landscape.
• The cocktail program: The most technically ambitious in Dallas — the team’s investment in clarification, infusion, and fermentation techniques produces cocktails that are unavailable at any other Dallas bar
• Cost: $14–$22/cocktail; hidebarlounge.com; 2816 Fairmount Street, Uptown

Brunch & Breakfast Restaurants

26. Emporium Pies (Bishop Arts District) — BEST DESSERT IN DALLAS

Why Essential: Emporium Pies on N. Bishop Avenue in the Bishop Arts District is the most beloved dessert counter in Dallas — a handmade pie bakery producing the Drunken Nut (pecan with bourbon, the house signature), the Smooth Operator (bourbon chocolate), the Mo’ Blackberry (blackberry with lemon curd), and the rotating seasonal pies that make any Bishop Arts afternoon incomplete without a stop. The Drunken Nut pecan pie is the single most recommended Dallas dessert item by the city’s food community.

• Drunken Nut (pecan and bourbon): The house signature — the most specifically excellent pie slice in Dallas, the most recommended dessert by Dallas food professionals ($6–$8/slice)
• The seasonal pies: The rotating menu changes with Texas fruit seasons — the summer stone fruit pies and the fall apple and pear pies are the most specifically seasonal offerings
• The Bishop Arts setting: Open from 10 AM daily — the most convenient dessert stop for any Bishop Arts District afternoon or after-dinner walk

Cost: $6–$8/slice; emporiumdallas.com; 314 N. Bishop Avenue, Bishop Arts; open daily

27. Hattie’s Sunday Brunch (Bishop Arts)

Already described in the Neighborhood Restaurants section — worth its own brunch emphasis: the Sunday morning at Hattie’s (chicken and waffles, Bloody Mary, the Oak Cliff community filling the dining room) is the most specifically Dallas neighborhood brunch experience available in any part of the city. The 30–60 minute wait is the most reliably worthwhile queue in the Bishop Arts District on a Sunday morning.

28. Cafe Izmir (Greenville Avenue)

• The most beloved Mediterranean brunch in Dallas — a Greenville Avenue institution serving the full Ottoman mezze breakfast tradition (hummus, baba ganoush, labneh, olives, roasted peppers, eggs prepared in the Turkish style) to a devoted Greenville Avenue clientele that treats the Saturday morning mezze brunch as the week’s finest meal. The most culturally specific brunch accessible in East Dallas.
• The mezze brunch platter: The house sharing breakfast — 8–10 small dishes of the Ottoman breakfast tradition, the most complete and the most specific non-American brunch format in Dallas ($18–$24/person)

Cost: $20–$35/person; cafeizmir.com; 3711 Greenville Avenue; open daily for brunch

29. Easy Slider (Multiple Dallas Locations)

• The Dallas slider concept born from a food truck — house-ground beef sliders with creative toppings (the Brisket slider uses real smoked brisket, the most Dallas-specific slider filling available at any slider restaurant in the city) in the most informal and the most reliably delicious casual lunch format in North Dallas
• Brisket slider: The house specialty — actual smoked brisket on a slider bun with house pickles ($6–$8 each, 2–3 recommended)

Cost: $12–$20/person; easyslider.com; multiple Dallas locations

30. Neighborhood Services (Multiple Dallas Locations)

• Nick Badovinus’s neighborhood restaurant concept — the most reliably excellent casual American comfort food in Dallas, with the finest burger in the city’s casual dining tier (the double smash burger with house-made American cheese), excellent cocktails, and the most genuinely neighborhood-feeling dining room accessible in the Preston Hollow/Highland Park area
• The burger: The finest casual-tier burger in Dallas — double smash patties, house-made American cheese, the most reliably excellent fast-casual burger preparation in North Dallas ($14–$16)

Cost: $25–$45/person; neighborhoodservicesdallas.com; multiple Dallas locations

International & Diverse Restaurants

31. Laili (Lakewood)

• The most specifically Afghan and Central Asian restaurant in Dallas — a Lakewood neighborhood restaurant serving mantoo (Afghan dumplings with spiced beef and yogurt), qabuli palau (rice with lamb, raisins, and carrots), and the charcoal-grilled kebabs that represent the most complete Central Asian food culture accessible at any Dallas restaurant
• Mantoo: The house dumpling — the most technically specific and the most culturally authentic Afghan preparation in Dallas ($14–$18)

Cost: $25–$45/person; lailidallas.com; 6425 E. Mockingbird Lane, Lakewood

32. Kalachandji’s (East Dallas)

• The most unexpected restaurant in Dallas — a Hare Krishna-operated Indian vegetarian buffet restaurant in an East Dallas temple complex, serving the finest Indian vegetarian food accessible in Dallas in the most architecturally extraordinary setting of any Dallas restaurant: a domed temple surrounded by gardens, with buffet dining in an outdoor courtyard. The most specifically otherworldly dining experience available in the city.
• The buffet: $15/adult, the most affordable and the most complete Indian vegetarian spread in Dallas — fresh-baked naan, dals, sabzis, and rice preparations that reflect genuine Indian home cooking rather than the restaurant approximations available in most Dallas Indian restaurants

Cost: $15/adult buffet; kalachandjis.com; 5430 Gurley Avenue, East Dallas; lunch Tuesday–Sunday, dinner Wednesday–Sunday

33. Nuri Korean Steakhouse (Koreatown area)

• The finest Korean BBQ restaurant in Dallas — individual table-level charcoal grills, premium Korean beef cuts (galbi short ribs, bulgogi, and the premium Korean wagyu that makes the finest Dallas Korean BBQ table comparable to the finest Los Angeles Korean BBQ corridor), and the most complete banchan (small side dish) service in the city
• Premium Korean wagyu galbi: The house recommendation — marbled short ribs on the charcoal tabletop grill ($45–$65 for the premium cut, serves 2)

Cost: $40–$80/person; multiple visits rewarding; Koreatown, northwest Dallas

34. Benito’s (Oak Lawn)

• The most beloved Mexican interior cuisine restaurant in Oak Lawn — a family-owned operation serving authentic Michoacán and Mexico City preparations (carnitas de Michoacán slow-cooked in lard the traditional way, pozole rojo, and the chiles en nogada in season) that are unavailable at Dallas’s Tex-Mex institutions. The most honest and the most regionally specific Mexican cooking accessible in the Oak Lawn neighborhood.
• Carnitas de Michoacán: Pork slow-cooked in lard the Michoacán traditional way — the most technically correct carnitas in Dallas ($16–$20)

Cost: $25–$40/person; benitos.com; Oak Lawn, Dallas

35. Sissy’s Southern Kitchen (Lakewood / Highland Park)

• The finest Southern comfort food restaurant in Dallas — Lisa Garza’s Lakewood restaurant serving the most technically accomplished versions of Southern classics (fried chicken in a perfectly seasoned crust, shrimp and grits with the finest Gulf shrimp accessible in Dallas, and the biscuits that the Dallas food media treats as a landmark preparation) in the most authentically Southern atmosphere available in North Texas
• Fried chicken: The house signature — perfectly seasoned crust, juicy interior, the finest single fried chicken in Dallas ($22–$26)
• Biscuits: The most praised single bread item in the Dallas restaurant landscape — order them first

Cost: $35–$60/person; sissyssouthernkitchen.com; 2929 N. Henderson Avenue, Lakewood

Fort Worth Restaurants Worth the Drive

36. Joe T. Garcia’s Mexican Dishes (Fort Worth) — MUST VISIT

Why Drive to Fort Worth: The Fort Worth Tex-Mex institution since 1935 — no menu at dinner (the family-style combination plate of enchiladas, rice, beans, and sopapillas is served to the entire table without ordering), cash or check only, and the 500-person patio that becomes the most social outdoor dining experience in North Texas on warm evenings. The most specifically Fort Worth restaurant character accessible within a 45-minute drive of Dallas.

• Dinner (no menu): The family-style combination plate — enchiladas, rice, beans, guacamole, and sopapillas for dessert, served to the entire table simultaneously ($15–$18/person)
• The patio: 500 seats under the live oaks and string lights — the most specifically atmospheric outdoor dining in the DFW Metroplex
• Cash or check only: The most consistently enforced payment policy at any DFW restaurant

Cost: $15–$25/person; joets.com; 2201 N. Commerce Street, Fort Worth; 30 miles from Dallas

37. Lonesome Dove Western Bistro (Fort Worth Stockyards)

• Tim Love’s Stockyards restaurant — the finest dining in the Fort Worth Stockyards area, combining the Western heritage aesthetic with a genuinely ambitious farm-and-ranch-sourced menu. The elk taco and the wild boar chop represent the most specifically Texas wild game menu accessible at any DFW restaurant.
• Wild game preparations: The most comprehensive wild game menu in the DFW area — wild boar, elk, antelope, and rabbit prepared with genuine culinary technique
• Reservations: OpenTable; lonesomedovebistro.com; 2406 N. Main Street, Fort Worth Stockyards; Cost: $55–$90/person

38. Reata Restaurant (Sundance Square, Fort Worth)

• The most specifically Fort Worth fine dining experience — a ranch-cuisine restaurant in Sundance Square serving Hill Country rack of lamb, Texas quail, and the most sophisticated Texas-ingredient menu in downtown Fort Worth. The finest complete fine dining dinner accessible from Dallas without committing to an overnight stay in Fort Worth.
• Tenderloin tamale: The house signature — filet mignon wrapped in masa and steamed in the traditional tamale format; the most specifically Texas fine dining preparation available in Fort Worth ($34–$40)
• Reservations: OpenTable; reata.net; 310 Houston Street, Fort Worth; Cost: $55–$90/person

Budget & Local Favorites

39. Hypnotic Donuts (East Dallas)

• The most creative and the most beloved donut shop in Dallas — Hypnotic Donuts produces the most inventive donut menu in North Texas (the Fried Chicken and Donut sandwich, the maple bacon bar, and the rotating special flavors that change daily) in a vintage Lakewood building that is the most specifically East Dallas donut experience available at any hour of the morning
• The Fried Chicken and Donut: Fried chicken breast on a glazed donut bun — the most specifically Dallas donut creation and the most photographed single food item in the East Dallas breakfast landscape

Cost: $3–$8/donut; hypnoticdonuts.com; 2912 Main Street, East Dallas; open daily until sold out

40. Norma’s Café (Multiple Dallas Locations)

• The most beloved Dallas diner institution — a 1956 original Lakewood operation serving the home-style Southern cooking (chicken-fried steak, meatloaf, pie by the slice) that three generations of Dallas families have been eating at the Formica counter since Eisenhower was president. The most consistently honest comfort food accessible in Dallas at the most consistently reasonable prices.
• Chicken-fried steak: The house standard since 1956 — cream gravy, hand-pounded beef, the most historically continuous chicken-fried steak in Dallas ($16–$20)

Cost: $15–$25/person; normascafe.com; multiple Dallas locations; open daily

41. Campisi’s Egyptian Restaurant (Multiple Dallas Locations)

• The most historically specific Dallas Italian-American restaurant — the original 1946 Mockingbird Lane location that carries a specific Dallas mob history (Campisi’s connection to Jack Ruby is the most frequently told Dallas restaurant historical footnote), serving New York-style Italian-American red sauce dishes (the manicotti, the lasagna, and the pepperoni pizza) that are the most honest Italian-American institution in the city
• The pizza: New York-style thin crust, the most historically continuous pizza in Dallas — the same recipe since 1946

Cost: $20–$35/person; campisis.com; multiple Dallas locations

42. El Si Hay (Oak Cliff)

• The Oak Cliff taqueria institution — a cash-only counter-service taqueria on Jefferson Boulevard in Oak Cliff serving the most honest and the most consistent street-taco-style Mexican food in Dallas at prices ($2–$3/taco) that make every other Dallas taco restaurant price look inflated
• Tacos: Street taco format — corn tortilla, meat, onion, cilantro, and the house salsa that is the most important condiment in Oak Cliff ($2–$3 each)

Cost: $8–$15/person; cash only; Jefferson Boulevard, Oak Cliff; open daily

More Essential Dallas Restaurants

43. Jeng Chi (Richardson)

• The finest dim sum restaurant in the DFW area — the Richardson-based Chinese restaurant drawing Houston-level dim sum quality with a weekend cart service that is the most complete and the most traditionally Cantonese dim sum experience accessible from Dallas. The har gow, siu mai, and lo mai gai are the definitive versions in North Texas.

Cost: $20–$35/person; Richardson, 20 miles from Dallas; open daily; peak dim sum Saturday–Sunday 10 AM–2 PM

44. Kessler Park Ale House (Oak Cliff)

• The most beloved neighborhood bar and kitchen in Oak Cliff — a Kessler Park neighborhood tavern serving the finest pub food in the Bishop Arts adjacent area (the smash burger is the most celebrated non-Pecan Lodge burger in South Dallas), with the most carefully curated Texas craft beer tap list accessible in the neighborhood.

Cost: $18–$30/person; Oak Cliff; open daily

45. Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen (Multiple Dallas Locations)

• The Houston seafood chain institution at its finest Dallas locations — the blackened redfish, the Gulf shrimp étouffée, and the crawfish (in season) represent the most accessible and the most consistently excellent Gulf Coast seafood accessible in the Dallas area without driving to the Gulf Coast itself.

Cost: $35–$60/person; pappadeaux.com; multiple Dallas locations

46. Rapscallion (Lakewood)

• The Lakewood neighborhood restaurant that has been the most consistently excellent casual fine dining in East Dallas since it opened — a seasonally changing menu with genuine farm relationships, the finest wine program in the Lakewood neighborhood, and the specific neighborhood restaurant character that rewards the visitor willing to take a 15-minute Uber from downtown to a non-tourist-facing dining room in one of Dallas’s most residential neighborhoods.

Cost: $45–$75/person; rapscalliondallas.com; 2023 Greenville Avenue, Lakewood

47. Sloane’s Corner (Knox-Henderson)

• The most reliably excellent casual dining in Knox-Henderson for visitors who want something more ambitious than a taqueria but less formal than Knife or Lucia — a neighborhood bistro format with the finest burger in the Knox-Henderson corridor, an excellent natural wine selection, and the most consistently pleasant outdoor dining accessible on the Henderson Avenue sidewalk from late March through November.

Cost: $35–$60/person; Knox-Henderson, Dallas

48. The Charles (Design District)

• The Design District’s most celebrated recent restaurant opening — a Contemporary American menu with genuine farm-to-table commitments and the most impressive new restaurant space in the Design District’s rapidly developing culinary landscape. The tasting menu format and the natural wine program reflect the most nationally ambitious cooking currently accessible in the Design District.

Cost: $65–$110/person; thecharles.com; Design District, Dallas

49. Cattivella (Greenville Avenue)

• The most specifically Italian and the most technically wood-fire accomplished pizza restaurant in Dallas — a Greenville Avenue Neapolitan-adjacent pizza operation using a wood-fired oven imported from Naples, ’00’ flour dough fermented 48–72 hours, and tomatoes from San Marzano that produce the finest pizza accessible in East Dallas at any price point.

Cost: $25–$45/person; cattivella.com; 1906 Greenville Avenue, East Dallas

50. The Henry (Uptown)

• The most socially active all-day café and restaurant in Uptown Dallas — a large-format all-day dining room serving the full range from coffee and pastry to cocktails and dinner in a space that captures the most representative cross-section of Uptown Dallas’s social life at any hour from 7 AM to midnight. The most useful single restaurant for the visitor who wants one reliable, high-quality option in the Uptown hotel corridor without extensive research.

Cost: $20–$45/person; thehenryrestaurant.com; 2600 Cedar Springs Road, Uptown; open daily 7 AM–midnight

Dallas Dining: Practical Tips

Frequently Asked Questions: Best Restaurants in Dallas

What is the most famous restaurant in Dallas?

Pecan Lodge in Deep Ellum is the most nationally famous Dallas restaurant — the Texas Monthly Top 50-ranked BBQ operation whose beef rib and brisket have appeared in more national food media coverage of Dallas than any other single restaurant, and whose Deep Ellum location (the historic live music neighborhood with the mural corridor) makes it simultaneously the most celebrated food destination and the most atmospherically specific Dallas restaurant experience. Lucia in Bishop Arts is the most critically acclaimed by the food community — the James Beard-nominated Italian restaurant that most Dallas food professionals cite as the restaurant they’re proudest of when asked to represent the city’s culinary ambition. And Knife in Highland Park Village is the most impressive for the specific food tourist who measures a steakhouse by the length of its dry-aging program. All three are “most famous” in different and equally valid senses of Dallas’s restaurant identity.

What neighborhood has the best restaurants in Dallas?

Bishop Arts District is the finest restaurant neighborhood in Dallas — the combination of Lucia (finest Italian in DFW), Lockhart Smokehouse (finest accessible Central Texas BBQ in the neighborhood), Hattie’s (finest Bishop Arts brunch), Emporium Pies (finest dessert counter in the city), and Bolsa (finest farm-to-table commitment in Oak Cliff) in a walkable, accessible-by-free-DART-Streetcar grid makes it the most complete and the most consistently excellent dining neighborhood. Knox-Henderson is the most rapidly improving — Trompo, Boulevardier, and the Henderson Avenue corridor’s independent restaurants constitute the most exciting current dining geography in Dallas. Uptown has the most concentrated luxury-to-mid-range restaurant density. Deep Ellum has the most energetically creative food-and-drink culture. The most productive Dallas dining day: Pecan Lodge for lunch (Deep Ellum, walk the murals after), the free DART Streetcar to Bishop Arts for dinner (Lucia reservation), Emporium Pies for dessert. Three neighborhoods, one day, the full Dallas dining character.

Where do Dallas locals actually eat?

Dallas locals eat brunch at Hattie’s in Bishop Arts on Sunday mornings and argue about whether the wait is worth it (it is). They eat Trompo al pastor on a Tuesday lunch because it’s $3.50 and it’s the best taco in the city. They eat Pecan Lodge brisket on a birthday or when they want to show out-of-town visitors why Dallas BBQ is serious. They eat at Lucia for anniversaries and special occasions with a reservation made three weeks ago. They eat at Boulevardier for a low-key Wednesday wine night that turns into three bottles. They eat Emporium Pies as the conclusion to any Bishop Arts afternoon. And they eat at Norma’s Café when they want to remember that Dallas was once a city of Formica counters and pie by the slice and chicken-fried steak that their grandparents ate in 1956. The common thread: neighborhood loyalty, honest food at honest prices, and the specific pride of knowing that the restaurant they’re recommending is better than anything the visitor came expecting to find.

Is Dallas a good food city?

Dallas is a significantly better food city than its national reputation acknowledges — a place where the James Beard Award nominations have been increasing annually for a decade, where the Bishop Arts District’s Lucia produces Italian cooking comparable to the finest in any American city, where Pecan Lodge’s beef rib is the most visually and flavor-specifically impressive single plate of BBQ accessible within Dallas city limits, where Trompo’s al pastor is cut from an actual trompo spit in a neighborhood taqueria on McKinney Avenue, and where the diversity of the city’s international restaurant landscape (the Afghan cooking at Laili, the Vietnamese bún bò Huế at Mot Hai Ba, the finest dim sum in North Texas at Jeng Chi in Richardson) reflects a genuinely cosmopolitan food culture that the city’s Big D marketing has historically undersold. The challenge: the finest Dallas restaurants are in the neighborhoods, not in the hotel corridors, and reaching them requires the willingness to take the DART Streetcar to Bishop Arts, the McKinney Avenue Trolley to Knox-Henderson, or the Green Line to Deep Ellum. The reward: a food city that is genuinely worth the exploration.

What is the best cheap eat in Dallas?

The Trompo taco al pastor ($3–$4 each) is the finest cheap eat in Dallas — the al pastor cut from the actual spinning spit, in a corn tortilla pressed in the kitchen, with charred pineapple from the spit’s crown, is the most specifically correct and the most flavor-dense cheap food available in the city. The Emporium Pies Drunken Nut pecan slice ($6–$8) is the finest cheap dessert. The El Si Hay taco in Oak Cliff ($2–$3 each) is the most affordable genuinely excellent taco. The Kalachandji’s vegetarian Indian buffet ($15) is the most affordable complete meal with cultural specificity. And the Hypnotic Donuts fried chicken and donut sandwich ($8–$10) is the most specifically Dallas budget food experience available at any hour before noon. For BBQ specifically: Lockhart Smokehouse in Bishop Arts ($18–$22/lb) is the most accessible budget BBQ option with Central Texas lineage within walking distance of the DART Streetcar stop.

Final Thoughts: Eating Dallas’s Full Character

After multiple Dallas meals spanning the Lucia charcuterie board and the Pecan Lodge beef rib, the Trompo al pastor and the Knife 240-day dry-aged ribeye, the Hattie’s Sunday brunch and the Boulevardier Wednesday wine night, the Emporium Pies Drunken Nut and the Kalachandji’s buffet in the temple courtyard — three principles emerge for eating brilliantly in the most underestimated food city in Texas:
1. Lucia is the restaurant that Dallas’s food community is most proud of and that most visitors have never heard of — and the 38-seat Bishop Arts Italian dining room that David Uygur opened in 2011 is the most complete argument that Dallas has genuinely world-class cooking that does not require the visitor to know the city well to find it, as long as they take the free DART Streetcar from Union Station. The charcuterie board (house-cured prosciutto, coppa, ‘nduja, and lardo with house-made pickles) is the most technically accomplished first course in Dallas. The pasta (tagliatelle with ragù, tortellini en brodo, whatever the weekly pasta special happens to be) is the most deeply Italian cooking accessible at any price in the DFW area. The wine list (natural producers from Friuli, Piedmont, Sicily, with genuine knowledge behind every recommendation) is the most Italian wine program in Dallas. The dining room (38 seats, Oak Cliff neighborhood, the Bishop Arts District’s quiet W. 8th Street) is the most specifically un-Dallas-hotel restaurant setting in the city. Book it 4 weeks ahead. Take the streetcar. Order the charcuterie. This is the most important restaurant in Dallas.
2. The Trompo taco al pastor cut from the visible spinning spit on McKinney Avenue is simultaneously the finest $3.50 meal and the most honest food expression in Dallas — because the actual trompo spit (not a griddle, not a carving station, but the genuine rotating vertical broiler with the pineapple at the crown basting the caramelized pork as it cooks) is the most honest single food preparation in the city and the most specifically Mexican cooking technique accessible at any price. The visitor who eats at Trompo on the way to or from the Katy Trail, who watches the cook shave the pastor from the spit and press the house corn tortilla and top it with the charred pineapple and the house salsa verde, is eating the most correctly made and the most flavor-honest $3.50 food available in North Texas. The fact that the al pastor is on McKinney Avenue, one of the most conspicuously Uptown Dallas corridors in the city, in a neighborhood taqueria that has been drawing food critics from Houston and Austin since it opened, is the most specifically 21st-century Dallas culinary fact: the finest tacos in the city are not in Oak Cliff or on Jefferson Boulevard but on McKinney Avenue, next to the Katy Trail, because Dallas’s neighborhood dining geography has been quietly redistributing quality in ways that the city’s reputation has not yet caught up with.
3. The Emporium Pies Drunken Nut pecan pie slice ($6–$8, available from 10 AM daily at 314 N. Bishop Avenue) is the most unanimously recommended single food item in the Dallas food community — and the fact that it is a slice of pie in a Bishop Arts bakery rather than a tasting menu course or a BBQ beef rib makes it the most democratically available and the most specifically Dallas food experience on this list. The Drunken Nut (pecan, bourbon, the specific sweetness of a Texas pecan pie with the specific depth of a bourbon that has earned its complexity) is the dessert that every Dallas food professional recommends when asked for one thing to eat in the city. It costs $7. It is available from 10 AM. It is on the same block as Lucia and Lockhart Smokehouse and Hattie’s. The Bishop Arts District afternoon that begins with a Trompo taco at noon, continues to a Lockhart Smokehouse brisket at 1 PM, and concludes with an Emporium Pies Drunken Nut slice at 3 PM, has cost approximately $35 and has delivered the most specifically Dallas culinary afternoon available at any price. That is the honest recommendation. That is the full Dallas food character in a single afternoon. Take the streetcar. Dallas’s restaurants in 2026 are a city whose culinary ambitions have been growing faster than its reputation has been updating — a place where the James Beard nominations are coming more frequently than a decade ago, where the Bishop Arts neighborhood has produced a restaurant (Lucia) that belongs in the same conversation as any Italian restaurant in any American city, and where the taco al pastor from an actual trompo spit on McKinney Avenue is the most honest $3.50 food in the state. Dallas was always this interesting. The streetcar to Bishop Arts was always worth taking. The Drunken Nut was always $7. Come hungry. Take the train. For current restaurant listings, James Beard nominations, and Dallas dining news, consult Eater Dallas for current openings and reviews, Texas Monthly Food for the authoritative Texas restaurant rankings, and James Beard Foundation for current Dallas award and nomination status. —

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— About Travel Tourister Travel Tourister’s Dallas specialists provide honest restaurant recommendations based on extensive dining across every neighborhood, cuisine category, and price point the city offers — from Lucia’s charcuterie board and Pecan Lodge’s beef rib to Trompo’s $3.50 al pastor and Emporium Pies’ Drunken Nut slice. We understand Dallas’s finest restaurants are in the neighborhoods, accessible by free DART Streetcar, and worth the exploration beyond the hotel corridor. Need help planning your Dallas dining itinerary? Contact our specialists who can recommend optimal neighborhood restaurant clusters, Lucia reservation strategy, Pecan Lodge timing, Bishop Arts food walk planning, Fort Worth dinner combinations, and steakhouse selection for any visit length or culinary interest. We help travelers eat the full Dallas — from the trompo spit to the tasting menu.