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🏛️ Arts District, Dallas
9 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 9 Restaurants
✨ Fine Dining, Pre-Concert, Special Occasions
The cultural core of Dallas. Museums, concert halls, and some very serious restaurants. Quieter on weekends -- this is where Dallas goes to be refined.
Known for: AT&T Performing Arts Center, Nasher Sculpture Center, Tei-An
Don't miss: Tei-An, Bullion, Stephan Pyles Flora Street Cafe, Margaux
💡 Book Tei-An before a Winspear Opera House show. The soba and sake combination is one of Dallas best dinners.
Top 9 in Arts District
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AKAI at Musume
Japanese Speakeasy / Cocktail Bar
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
Japanese Soba · D Magazine Top 50
Chef Teiichi Sakurai hand-pulls soba noodles daily in the Arts District -- a craft so precise it's hypnotic. The omakase is world-class, the cold soba is transcendent, and this is ...
90
3
Dallas Museum of Art
Art Museum
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...
89
4
Nasher Sculpture Center
Art Museum
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
Astra Kitchen + Lounge
American
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 stunning...
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6
Crow Museum of Asian Art
Art Museum
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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7
Sushi Kozy
Japanese · Michelin Guide Recommended (2025)
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 ...
85
8
Miriam Cocina Latina
Mexican / Latin
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...
85
9
Mendocino Farms
Sandwiches & Salads / Fast Casual
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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