Steakhouses

The Maple Avenue Steakhouse Dallas Treats as a Default

Nick and Sam's has been the Uptown steakhouse of record for long enough that Dallas books it without discussion. It sits on Maple Avenue, a short ride from the Crescent and the hotels around it, and it remains one of the city's reliable big-night rooms.

Booking a Group Here, Honestly

Nick and Sam's does not publish its private dining rooms or their capacities, which is unusual for a steakhouse of its standing and worth saying plainly rather than inventing a number.

This is where a concierge earns the fee. We call the events team, get the room and the number in writing, and come back to you with something you can plan around. What we will not do is repeat a capacity we cannot stand behind.

For a table for four on a Friday, Nick and Sam's is a phone call. For forty, let us confirm the room first: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

Knox Street, Thirty-Eight Foot Ceilings, and a Name Michelin Got Wrong

Mister Charles is Duro Hospitality's irreverent French and Italian room, opened in July 2023 inside the landmarked former Highland Park Soda Fountain building on Knox Street. Thirty-eight foot ceilings, a rare wine list, and an address people routinely get wrong.

Mister Charles Is Not The Charles

These are two different restaurants from the same group, and confusing them will send your car to the wrong side of town.

The Michelin Guide made this exact mistake at its Texas launch in November 2024, listing The Charles when the recommendation belonged to Mister Charles. Michelin called it a geolocation error and corrected it. If a guide can get it wrong, a rideshare certainly can.

The menu is French and Italian without the reverence, and the wine list runs to genuinely rare bottles. The room is the draw as much as the food: a landmarked shell with the ceiling height to prove it.

We book the right Charles, at the right address, with the car pointed at Knox Street: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

Two Rooms, One Reputation, Since 1998

Al Biernat's has been a Dallas steak and seafood fixture since 1998 and now runs two locations, the Oak Lawn flagship and a North Dallas room. It is the steakhouse where the owner has historically known the regulars by name, which is a harder thing to franchise than a dry-ager.

Which Location, and Why It Matters

Both operate their own private dining and both publish their own dress code, which is a level of per-location detail most groups do not expect and should ask about. We check the specific room at the specific location rather than assuming the two match.

What we can say with confidence is the character: steaks and seafood at the top of the market, a long Dallas history, and service built on recognition rather than script.

Tell us where your group is starting from and we will pick the room: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

A Korean Steakhouse With a Two Hundred and Eighty-Seven Person Ceiling

Nuri opened on Cedar Springs Road in August 2024: a Korean-influenced steakhouse, roughly 9,500 square feet designed by AvroKO, built around Texas Akaushi beef and a Seoul-trained culinary director. It is the newest serious steakhouse in Uptown and the largest by buyout.

What Makes Nuri Different From the Rest of the Block

Hernandez arrives via Del Frisco's and Gordon Ramsay North America, so the steakhouse fundamentals are not an afterthought behind the Korean framing. Both traditions are being taken seriously, which is the whole proposition.

One clarification worth making, because it appears elsewhere in garbled form: chef Minji Kim is Michelin-recognized for work in Seoul. That credential belongs to the chef. Nuri itself does not hold a Michelin distinction.

For a large group that wants something other than another prime ribeye, this is the newest answer in Uptown: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

Five Private Rooms, All Wired, Starting at Eight Seats

The Capital Grille at Crescent Court is the most flexible private-dining operation among the Dallas steakhouses. Five rooms, every one of them audiovisual equipped, from an eight-seat boardroom to sixty when two combine. Dry-aged steaks, and a wine list carrying a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence held since 2020.

The Rooms, and Which One Fits

Every room being A/V equipped is the quiet differentiator. A presentation at a steakhouse usually means a projector on a cart and an apology; here it is part of the room.

The wine program runs more than 350 selections with an on-site kiosk. The Best of Award of Excellence is Wine Spectator's middle tier, which is a real distinction and not the Grand Award that Pappas Bros. holds.

Give us the headcount and whether anyone is presenting, and we will pick the room: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

Three Rooms, One Address, and a Night That Decides Its Own Length

Evelyn is an Old Hollywood steak and seafood house that opened in March 2025, and it is built as three connected rooms rather than one dining room. Where you sit determines what kind of evening you have.

Pick Your Room Before You Book

The 9,500 square foot space splits into a dining room, a bar, and a lounge that runs late. Reserving without choosing is how a dinner turns into a nightclub by accident, or the reverse.

The kitchen leans theatrical in a way that suits the room. Wagyu Cheesesteak Bites arrive as a tower, caviar comes by the bump, and Texas Wagyu strip and Miyazaki A5 are finished tableside on hot lava rock. It is dinner as performance, which is the entire premise of the place.

Evelyn sits on Turtle Creek Boulevard at the edge of the Design District, which puts it a short ride from Uptown hotels and closer than you would guess to downtown. Interiors are by ICRAVE, and the operator is Reach Hospitality.

We hold the table, match the room to the evening, and put a car outside when you are ready to leave. Tell us the date and the headcount: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

The Knox Street Room That Keeps Reinventing Itself

Georgie opened in late 2019 as a wood-fire steakhouse and has changed direction more than once since. As of late 2025 it is under chef Bruno Davaillon and moving toward refined seasonal French. Book it for the kitchen, and ask what the kitchen is doing this month.

What Changed, and Why It Matters Before You Book

Two things people still believe about Georgie are out of date. Getting them right avoids an awkward arrival.

None of that is a warning. Davaillon is a serious kitchen and the room on Travis Street remains one of the prettier dining rooms in the Knox District. It is simply a restaurant where you should confirm the current menu rather than order from memory or from a three-year-old review.

Georgie has historically been a place for a considered dinner rather than a boisterous one, and it built part of its reputation on an unapologetically expensive steak.

We confirm the current chef, the current menu, and the room before you arrive, then handle the reservation and the ride. Tell us the date: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

Akaushi Beef Raised for One Restaurant, Seven Floors Above Harwood

Stillwell's is the steakhouse on the seventh floor of Hôtel Swexan, and its argument is the beef. HWD Harwood Premium Beef is Akaushi cattle raised exclusively for the group and aged 28 days or more, which is a supply chain almost no restaurant controls.

Why the Beef Program Is the Whole Story

Most steakhouses buy prime beef on the open market and compete on aging and cooking. Stillwell's owns the animal.

The room is art-deco western, named for the Texas rancher Hallie Stillwell, and it holds one of the larger wine cellars in the city. Food and beverage is led by Raymond Bocanegra, whose résumé runs through the Broadmoor, the Ritz-Carlton Denver, and Rosewood Miramar Beach.

Cowboy Hour runs 4pm to 6pm daily with half-price cocktails, which is the cheapest way to see the room before committing to a full dinner.

Hôtel Swexan handles private events for the restaurant, and we handle the table, the timing, and the car. Tell us the date and the headcount: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

Open Flame, Forty Chandeliers, and a Room That Refuses to Whisper

Town Hearth is Nick Badovinus's open-flame steakhouse in the Design District, and it is the least restrained dining room in Dallas: dozens of chandeliers, a large custom fish tank, and a Delmonico cooked over fire. Everything about it is on purpose.

What to Know Before You Book

Eighteen seated in Mr. Presley's is the honest ceiling for a private dinner here. Above that, the room itself is the event, and a buyout conversation starts.

One thing that alarms people needlessly: the old townhearth.com address now redirects to the restaurant group's site. That is a consolidation, not a closure. Town Hearth is open and serving dinner.

We book the table, and the car means nobody negotiates Market Center Boulevard parking. Tell us the night: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

A Wine Spectator Grand Award and Beef Butchered in the Building

Pappas Bros. Steakhouse dry-ages and butchers its own USDA Prime beef in house for at least 28 days, and pours from a wine list that has earned the Wine Spectator Grand Award. For a dinner where the cellar matters as much as the ribeye, this is the Dallas room.

Why the Grand Award Is the Headline

Wine Spectator's Grand Award is the top of its three tiers and is held by only a small number of restaurants worldwide. It is not a participation ribbon, and it changes how you should order.

Eighty seated is a genuinely large private capacity for a steakhouse, and the four rooms include a wine room and a fireplace lounge. Private events carry a food and beverage minimum and come with an event coordinator, audiovisual support, and custom menus.

A common mix-up worth settling: there is one Pappas Bros. in Dallas, on Lombardy Lane near Love Field. The others are in Houston.

Tell us the headcount and whether the evening is about the wine, and we will set the room: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

A Ninety-Seat Terrace at Rosewood Court

Ocean Prime is the Cameron Mitchell supper club at Rosewood Court in Uptown: prime steak, fresh seafood, and five private spaces topped by a 2,500 square foot terrace that seats ninety. Note the name has no S. It is Ocean Prime.

The Five Private Spaces

Corporate copy from the group sometimes says four private rooms. That counts the four indoor spaces; the terrace is the fifth and, for most groups, the interesting one.

The room sits across from the Rosewood Crescent Hotel, which makes it a short walk rather than a drive for anyone staying there. Lunch runs weekdays, dinner nightly.

Tell us the headcount and the month and we will pick the space accordingly: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

Forty-Nine Floors Up, and Italian Rather Than Steak

Monarch sits on the 49th floor of The National downtown, roughly 600 feet above Elm Street, and it is a wood-fired modern Italian restaurant from two-Michelin-star chef Danny Grant. The view is the draw. The pasta is the reason you stay.

What Monarch Actually Is

It is frequently mistaken for a steakhouse because it cooks over fire and charges accordingly. The menu says otherwise.

The room opened in 2021 and remains the best skyline dining in the city, which is a claim the Dallas Morning News made at the time and which nothing since has seriously challenged. Kessaku, a sushi restaurant, shares the floor, so a group that cannot agree has an unusual out.

For a big group with a view, this is the booking. We handle the table, the floor, and the cars downstairs: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

The Steakhouse That Puts a Glazed Carrot Next to a Prime Ribeye

Bob's Steak and Chop House opened in Dallas in 1993 on Lemmon Avenue and became a Texas classic on unfussy terms: prime beef, generous pours, and a large glazed carrot that arrives with every steak whether or not anyone asked.

What Bob's Is, and Is Not

Book it when someone in the party wants a steakhouse that has not been reconsidered by a hospitality group in the last five years. It is the counterweight to the newer Uptown rooms, and there is a real audience for that.

Old-school, on purpose, and we will get you the table: ask the concierge or request a reservation.

One Hundred and Eighty Seated on the Second Floor

Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse in Uptown is the Dallas flagship of the brand, and its private-event capacity is the reason corporate Dallas keeps its number. Prime steak, seafood, a patio with skyline views, and an upscale dress code that is enforced.

The Private Event Spaces, by Capacity

Four spaces that scale from a boardroom dinner to a company-wide evening without moving venues.

The dress code is worth taking seriously, because it is stated as enforced rather than suggested. Tell your group before they leave the hotel, not in the lobby.

A point of confusion to settle: the original North Dallas location on Spring Valley closed in 2016 and moved to Uptown. A widely reported 2025 Del Frisco's closure was Century City in Los Angeles. Dallas is open, on Olive Street.

For the annual dinner that has outgrown a private room, this is the shortlist's top. Tell us the headcount and the date: ask the concierge or request a reservation.