📍 Arts District, Dallas
11 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 11 Restaurants
The Arts District pairs its free museums and sculpture garden with serious Japanese cooking, soba, sushi counters, and tucked-away cocktail rooms.
Top 10 in Arts District
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AKAI at Musume
Japanese speakeasy hidden inside Musume in the Hall Arts District, reopened in 2025 after a six-figure redesign by California's The Design Agency. A 15-foot serpentine banquette, 2...
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2
Tei-An
Chef Teiichi Sakurai hand-pulls soba noodles daily in the Arts District — a craft so precise it's hypnotic. The omakase is the real deal, the cold soba is transcendent, and this is...
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3
Dallas Museum of Art
Free-admission encyclopedic art museum anchoring the Dallas Arts District, the largest urban arts district in the US. More than 24,000 works spanning 5,000 years -- from ancient Eg...
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4
Nasher Sculpture Center
Renzo Piano-designed museum housing one of the finest collections of modern and contemporary sculpture in the world. The outdoor garden is as spectacular as the indoor galleries. F...
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5
Musume
Contemporary Japanese in the Dallas Arts District, on Flora Street in the HALL Arts development. The kitchen runs sushi and omakase alongside cooked plates like black cod marinated...
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6
Astra Kitchen + Lounge
The HALL Arts Hotel refined dining room, replacing Ellie in early 2026, with Chef Miguel Antonio delivering classic Americana with global inspiration beneath Spencer Finch's astero...
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7
Crow Museum of Asian Art
Free museum at 2010 Flora Street in the Dallas Arts District, opened in December 1998 by Trammell and Margaret Crow. One of the finest Asian art collections in the Southwest, compl...
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8
Sushi Kozy
Chef Paul Ko -- formerly head sushi chef at Uchi Dallas -- opened this intimate 10-seat Arts District omakase counter in 2025, and it landed in the Michelin Guide just four months ...
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9
Miriam Cocina Latina
Arts District Latin kitchen from chef Miriam Jimenez serving elevated Mexican and Latin American dishes with seasonal ingredients. The mole is complex and earned, the ceviche is br...
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Mendocino Farms
Arts District sandwich shop from the LA-based chain that elevates the lunch sandwich to an art form. The Not So Fried Chicken sandwich is the cult favorite, the salads are genuinel...
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All 11 Restaurants in Arts District
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