Christmas Dining in Dallas

The best restaurants in Dallas to dine out on Christmas Day

Where oh where to eat in Dallas on Christmas Day?

If cooking a Christmas meal is more than you can handle, these local restaurants have come to the rescue with dining options that run from brunch to dinner. Some events are on their way to selling out, so be sure to call and check for availability.

Boots & Brix
Champagne brunch at the Hyatt Regency in North Dallas/Richardson offers a traditional feast, carving stations, seafood, sushi, and breakfast. Call 972-231-9600.

Buca di Beppo
The Italian restaurant does its regular family-style menu from 11 am-10 pm. Call 214-361-8462.

Canary By Gorji
A three-course meal with mixed green or Caesar salad, turkey or pork chop, and choice of sorbet or flourless chocolate cake. $45. Call 972-503-7080.

CBD Provisions
The regular menu plus specials including oyster-potato stew, bone marrow pie, fudge tart with cran-raspberry compote and spiced marshmallow, and boozy eggnog. 7 am-10 pm. Call 214-261-4500.

Cook Hall
W Hotel restaurant serves pomegranate-glazed ham, bacon Brussels sprouts, and cinnamon sweet potato cake. 11 am–10 pm. $29. Call 214-397-4111.

Four Seasons
Cafe on the Green offers a variety of dining options, beginning with regular breakfast from 6:30–9:30 am. Holiday brunch runs from 10:30 am–2:30 pm for $79, or $39 for those 12 and under. Dinner is a la carte, from 6-9 pm. Call 972-717-2420.

Front Room
Brunch buffet is available from 9 am-3 pm. $55, $20 for those 12 and under. Call 214-219-8282.

Grand Met
The Grand Hyatt DFW restaurant has duck breast with mustard greens and butternut squash. $36. Call 972-973-1244.

Henry's Tavern
Plano pub has a special holiday menu, served 2 pm-midnight. Call 972-473-7252.

Howard Wang's
Upscale Chinese restaurant is open from 5-10 pm with a regular menu. Uptown: 214-954-9558. Preston Hollow: 214-366-1606.

Jeng Chi
Open regular hours, 10 am-10 pm. Call 972-669-9094.

Kirin Court
The Richardson Chinese restaurant offers dim sum service from 10 am-10 pm. Call 214-575-8888.

Knife Dallas
Brunch is sold out, but a la carte dinner from 5-9 pm still has some open seats. Call 214-443-9339.

Landmark at the Melrose Hotel
Brunch buffet includes turkey, seafood ice display, and a dessert station. 11 am-2:30 pm. $60 per person, $24 for those 12 and under. Call 214-224-3152.

Lark on the Park
Three-course meal featuring salmon, tagliatelle with truffles, beef cheeks, and black barley with cavolo nero and squash. Seatings at 5, 7, and 9 pm. $65, $18 for those 12 and under. Call 214-855-5275.

Meddlesome Moth
Special holiday dinners feature turkey with brandied sweet potatoes and prime rib with rosemary marbled potatoes. 5-10 pm. Call 214-628-7900.

Mignon
Plano steakhouse has a three-course meal for $69.95. 11 am-10 pm. Call 972-943-3372.

Morton's The Steakhouse
Uptown steakhouse is open with a regular menu from 2-9 pm. Call 214-741-2277.

Naan Sushi
Sushi spot at Shops at Legacy in Plano offers a special menu from the bar between 5 pm-2 am. Call 972-943-9288.

Oceanaire Seafood Room
Seafood restaurant at Galleria Dallas has a regular menu, 2-9 pm. Call 972-759-2277.

Pyramid
Brunch with omelets and crepes, gingerbread French toast, carved meats, and mimosas. $69, or $35 for those 12 and under. For parties of six or more, the Gold Room will be available upon request. Seating times are 11 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, and 2 pm. Call 214-720-5249.

RA Sushi
Full menu plus extended happy hour specials, from 4-11 pm. Addison: 972-581-2905. Plano: 469-467-7400.

RJ Mexican
Regular menu plus specials featuring steak, lobster, and enchiladas. 10 am-4 pm. Call 214-744-1420.

Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek
Duck confit, smoked salmon, green lentil soup, scallops, tenderloin, pheasant, lamb, and sunchoke ravioli. Desserts include chocolate pecan yule log, quince cinnamon crème brûlée and coffee chocolate crème brûlée. 11 am-8 pm. $125, $55 for those 12 and under. Call 214-443-4747.

The Rustic
Tamales in three options: pork, chicken, or vegetarian, plus a special margarita. 6 pm-midnight. Call 214-730-0596.

Ruth's Chris Steak House
Regular menu of steak and seafood from 12-8 pm. Call 214-922-7062.

Second Floor
Five-course menu with shrimp and chorizo soup, gnocchi, pork loin, smoked salmon, and tenderloin. 2-8 pm. $55 per person. Call 972-450-2978.

Ser Steakhouse
Four-course brunch menu with porcetta, chicken and waffles, cioppino with black cod, mussels, calamari, bacon-wrapped tenderloin, salads, and pastrami-potato hash. 11 am-6 pm. $75, $35 for those 12 and under. Call 214-761-7470.

South Fork Texas Steak and Crab
Specials include prime rib with salad, chicken, and chicken-fried steak. 12-10 pm. Call 972-423-7235.

St. Martin's Wine Bistro
Three-course meal for $45, $20 for those 12 and under. Call 214-826-0940.

Steel Restaurant
Prix-fixe meal features tom yum soup, scallops, lamb shank, roast duck, chocolate ganache cake, sticky toffee pudding. 5-9 pm. $55. Call 214-219-9908.

Texas Spice
Brunch at Omni Dallas features turkey, ham, Gulf seafood, biscuits, gingerbread cookies, apple pie, banana pudding trifle, and chocolate mousse shots. 6 am-10 pm. $25, $10 for those under 12. Call 214-652-4810.

Toulouse
Special menu with smoked trout, creamy onion soup, scallops with celery root, quail, and more. 10 am-8 pm. Call 214-520-8999.

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Coming attractions

2 new dining concepts join buzzy East Dock complex in Oak Cliff Dallas

Photo courtesy of Bite

Bite aims to bring affordable, high-quality sushi to the area.

East Dock, a former ice storage and manufacturing building from 1915 being revived into a mixed-use complex in Dallas' Oak Cliff, is adding two new restaurants, opening in early spring. Bite, a sushi restaurant, and Lola’s Cantina and Snacks, will be neighbors to Barro, the new Latin-American concept, which is approaching its final stage of construction. Here's a closer look at the forthcoming restaurants:

Bite
Owned by Mason Ho, who was most recently head chef at Nori Handroll Bar in Deep Ellum, and Ikki Wu, from Yama Izakaya and Sushi and Uchi, this new sushi concept aims to bring affordable, high-quality sushi to the area.

"When you think of sushi, you think of dressing up, paying a lot of money, super fancy," Ho says. "We want to strip it back down. At the end of the day, you can have really good food without being pretentious."

Bite (stylized "BITE"), will offer maki rolls ranging from $6-$14, nigiri from $6-$8, and sashimi from $12-$22. They will also serve flights of three items based on customers' fish preferences, including a tuna sashimi flight for $35.

The space will feature an open kitchen, sushi bar, tables and outdoor area seating, with a casual dining feel, open for lunch and dinner.

Lola’s Cantina and Snacks
This novel concept has a cute history: Owner Elias Pollo Corral, a residential builder, stumbled into the food industry when his daughter Ayleen suggested he open a snack shop across from her school, Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center. His "Snackateria" opened in 2022, just a few blocks away from East Dock. Sadly, the building flooded in December.

Lola’s Cantina and Snacks, named after their llama mascot Lola, will capture the spirit of Snackateria, with quick bites, and the addition of beer, wine and cocktails.

Snacks will include elote in a cup, mangonada, queso crush tots, nachos, cochi-chips (popular Mexican chips with elote on top) and a “Bonus Item” Lola Palooza, a champagne bottle paired with a shareable elote bucket. They plan to serve lunch specials for $10 bite-and-drink combos.

The space will be "curvy," as Corral describes it, with plenty of seating options, including a curved bench, a curved bar seating area and a few outdoor seats as well, all in an industrial setting with bright pink and purple neon lights.

“We are doing basic things with product that people already love,” the owner says.

Other tenants
In addition to Bite and Lola’s, East Dock has secured new tenants that will add to the versatility of the development.

The Lucky Claw, an arcade for kids and adults, with machines, plush dolls, available also for private events.
Oak Cliff Revival, a vintage furniture and goods, connected to Kuluntu Bakery via an arched door that will allow for a fluid circulation of traffic between the two shops.
Rough Draft, a creative makerspace and membership hub designed to make creativity accessible for all through workshops and events supporting artisans.

Abdias Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Archon Weightlifting are existing workout options, and Halperin Park, the 5-acre park developing around I-35E between Marsalis and Ewing St., is already officing at East Dock.

The East Dock project, at 900 E. Clarendon Dr.. is being led by Proxy Properties, an Oak Cliff real estate group famous for breathing new life into vacant and often historical buildings. The project is supported by the City of Dallas through their Tax Increment Financing program (TIF), which reinvests property tax revenues on under-performing real estate.

The developers are taking great care to prioritize local tenants, they say.

“We have been working on the community aspect for over 18 months, and it’s great to see it coming together with local entrepreneurs. We don’t have a single big box," says AJ Rambler, head of Proxy Properties, leading the development. "We tried to be very thoughtful with the kind of people we attract, looking for tenants that complement each other to cater for the 18-hour campus,"

On April 11, they'll host a "walking dinner" to let restaurants show their offerings to the public. An official grand opening is scheduled for May.

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