The Best Restaurants in Dallas Open on Sunday Night

Most of the Dallas rooms at this price stop at nine on a Sunday, or close the night altogether. Nick & Sam's publishes a 10 p.m. Sunday close in the opening hours markup on its own site, which makes it the only top-tier kitchen here where an 8.30 p.m. table is not a gamble.

It earns the top spot on more than the clock. In its 2026 steakhouse guide, after visiting 35 rooms across the region, D Magazine called it the best of the five big Dallas steakhouses that opened in the 1990s. The raw bar and the complimentary caviar service are the house signatures, and the kitchen is visible from the dining room.

Town Hearth gives Sunday and Monday their own listed service window, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., which tells you the kitchen plans for the night rather than tolerating it. That matters on the one evening of the week when a half-staffed room is the usual outcome.

The Dallas Observer's review called it the most over-the-top steakhouse in the city, and the excess is the point. Chandeliers, a motorcycle on the floor, six or more oysters on the raw bar at a time. The food underneath is serious, and the menu is wide enough that a table that cannot agree on steak still eats well.

Al Biernat's opens for dinner at 4.30 p.m. on Sunday, a full half hour before the rest of this group and ninety minutes before some of them. If you are eating with people who have a Monday morning, or with children, that half hour is the whole difference.

The trade is the close. Nine o'clock on Sunday is firm, and it is the earliest listed close of the four steakhouses on this page. The North location on Spring Valley keeps the same Sunday hours if Oak Lawn is full.

Javier's has been doing capital-city Mexican cooking on Cole Avenue for decades, and it is dinner only every night of the week, which means Sunday is a normal service rather than a scaled-back one. Cabrito, snapper, and the filet in black pepper sauce are the plates people order by name.

Treat the closing time as approximate. The restaurant's own site says 9.30 p.m. on Sunday while the Dallas Morning News listing says 10 p.m., so if you want a late table, call rather than assume the extra half hour.

Mia's is the only restaurant here that runs straight through Sunday without closing in the afternoon, so it covers the 3 p.m. hole the steakhouses leave. It opened on Lemmon Avenue in 1981 under Ana and Butch Enriquez and has moved twice along the same street since.

The brisket taco is the reason to come, two flour tortillas filled with slow-cooked brisket, gravy, jack cheese, grilled onions and poblanos. Time Out reports the recipe has gone essentially unchanged. Note that listings disagree on the street number, with some still showing 4322. The restaurant's own site says 4334.

Cafe Izmir keeps one set of hours all seven days, 4.30 p.m. to 10 p.m., published in the opening hours markup on its own site. On a night when half of Dallas is guessing, a restaurant that does not change its schedule for Sunday is worth knowing about.

The format is small plates rather than entrees, and the kitchen's reference point is the eastern Mediterranean rather than Spain. Gayot singles out the falafel, tabbouleh and grilled asparagus. The room is loud when there is live music, which is a reason to come or a reason to sit outside.

This is the answer when it is 11 p.m. on a Sunday and everything above has locked its doors. The Fitzhugh store lists an 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Sunday window on the chain's own locations page, which is later than every other Dallas Zalat except the Lemmon store.

It is pizza, not a destination dinner, and it is on the list for the hours rather than in spite of them. The crust is thin and crisp and the toppings run to Vietnamese and Mexican flavours more than Italian ones.