If you’ve got questions about how good o filling a tasting menu of vegan food could be, let us answer them: incredibly good and extremely filling. Out in Fort Worth, this kitchen is working with gastronomic techniques and fascinating substitutes for meats that will make you wonder how they do it. The menu changes quarterly or, as owner and chef Amy McNutt says, at every equinox. Previous menus have included dishes like confit zucchini walnut puree in roasted parsnip and a potato leek that is a play on the soup in fried form. The eight-course menu is $160 per person, and there is a five-course option for $100. The modern restaurant has a bar and patio seating, but the picturesque interiors and antique-style glassware inside the main dining room hold the maximum appeal. 

As part of Monarch’s journey to land a Michelin star in the next Texas ceremony, it has added a seasonal tasting menu to its offerings for $175 per person, with wine pairings available at an additional cost. A recent visit saw plates like an electric green and silky smooth fava bean bruschetta with whipped feta and Meyer lemon; foie gras terrine with strawberry emulsion, rhubarb, and St. Germaine; and a Rosewood Farms wagyu filet with king crab, gnocchi, and béarnaise sauce. This grand restaurant at the top of the Thompson Hotel includes a fashionable dining room and stunning views of the city. 

Take a tour through the dishes of Michoacan, Mexico at Purepecha — the tasting room, gourmand sister to Revolver Taco. Dine at the chef’s kitchen table for $180 per person, where the meal is eight courses ranging from various salsas, elotes, meats, and house ground tamals and handmade tortillas. It now also offers a four course option at $120 per person. The dinner is held in a back room at Revolver, where three tables that hold four are put together in a narrow space that feels unfinished.

This small space hosts guests for omakase-style servings of 15 to 18 courses of sushi and seafood, including light appetizers, 13 to 15 pieces of nigiri sushi, a cup of miso soup, a handroll, and a light dessert. It is the only Michelin-starred restaurant in Dallas, and with good reason — the service and quality of the food under chef Tatsu are top-notch. The meal should take just under two hours, and the cost is $185 per person. It was already difficult to get a reservation here, and with its Michelin accolades, it has gotten even more difficult. Check online on the 1st and 15th of each month when new reservations, which are prepaid, drop. Inside, there is an entryway where diners wait on arrival, with the service of a cocktail or other drink. They are then led into a small sushi bar — by small, we mean the restaurant advises guests not to wear perfume so as not to interfere with the experience. This is not the flashy, performative omakase that many Dallas spots offer. It’s calm, quiet, and soundtracked by classical tunes.

The Eater Awards winner for best new restaurant in 2023 introduced a tasting menu offering called the El Carlos Elegante Experience. For $99 per person, it offers a tour of the menu’s current highlights (and sometimes some off-menu items) from every section of the menu. The restaurant is best experienced by ordering a little of this plus some of that and sharing it all with the table, so this takes all thinking out of the equation — just sit back and let the kitchen send you incredible plates of food like the savory guajillo chicken smothered in a mole or the chunky refried lentils with blue corn masa tortillas. For a little extra, the team will also curate your drink experience. it is one of Dallas’s most beautiful restaurants to boot, with three distinct dining areas in a building made to look like the hacienda of a Mexican rancher. 

In March 2025, Stillwell’s launched a tasting menu. The steakhouse inside the Michelin Key-winning Hotel Swexan in the Harwood District offers seven courses for $125 per person that is fixated on showcasing the HWD beef program, which is exclusive to Harwood Hospitality restaurants. The set menu offers dishes including HWD beef tartare on toasted brioche with Dijon cream, beef dumplings, charred carrots, and a dry-aged strip. This tiny steakhouse tucked away in the hotel is a stunning room. The wood-paneled walls of the entrance are lined with black and white photos of celebrities who visited the ranch HWD beef comes from, and inside is a cozy room full of green velvet seats and dark wood. It also has one of the best wine lists in the city.

Chef Charles Olalia moved to Dallas from Los Angeles, and he has been quietly putting his mark on the Mansion’s restaurant for about a year. At this point, his discovery tasting menu is a highlight with decadent dishes at $175 per person, with an option wine paring for an additional $110 per person. A recent visit saw foie gras with a housemade seasonal berry jam along with other single-bite items on a tiered tray, his crispy salt and pepper quail, and a remarkable cut of steak. There is also a vegetarian tasting menu, which is $145 per person and an option $80 wine pairing. The Mansion is the same as it ever was, with its beige dining room somehow being the least interesting place to eat, certainly compared to the library or indoor patio. But the whole place is getting more interesting, thanks to its latest chef.

Rye was already known for having a boundary-pushing menu that utilized unusual ingredients. Its tasting menu, launched in fall 2024, hits those same notes. It starts with dessert (kangaroo tartare, crab & caviar cannoli, and blue cheesecake), goes into a dish it calls an “edible napkin” (those are riblets), and gets kookier from there. The zaniness of the naming conventions or order of the courses, however, should not be taken as a sign that the kitchen is anything less than serious about quality. If anything, that’s just the creativity of chef Taylor Rause and his team coming out in unexpected ways. The 11-course version of this tasting is $185 per person, while the 8-course option is $125. In the dining room, the place is a little bit industrial, with wood furniture and black iron fixtures, and softened by ever-present plantlife. There is also a patio, and although it may seem like no one is ever eating on it, guests are welcome to if they choose. 

As you may have heard, Georgie has gotten a makeover. That includes a long list of accolades for executive chef RJ Yoakum, lots of new folks in the kitchen, and a menu that changes frequently and contains some of the best dishes in the city. Our hack for figuring out what to order there now is to go for the tasting menu. At $185 per person for six courses, it’s a good way to experience some dishes made especially for tastings and some of the rest of the best. It always includes bites like the oysters with granata, a soup (lucky you if it is the French onion soup), and plates like halibut with mussels and spring lamb sausage with cocoa nib jus. The wine list is deep, and wine pairings for an additional cost are available. The dining room here is a stunner, full of curvy lines and burnt orange mid-century modern furniture.

A yakitori in Preston Center has demanded a lot of attention, landing on quite a lot of best restaurant lists in 2024. Chef Masa Otaka, who used to own the beloved Teppo on Greenville Avenue, opened Mabo to acclaim. It focuses on grilled chicken, with dishes served omakase-style. Dishes can include bites like freshly cooked rice with uni and a quail egg, skewered chicken and beef of top quality, and a Caesar salad on a skewer. The atmosphere is a little lacking for the cost, which is $200 per person for four to five courses, followed by between six and eight yakitori skewers. That is plenty of food, but the room is a simple black setting with seats around a chef’s counter — minimal art, minimal sound, and minimal service. 

Up in Frisco, chef Rich Vana has introduced a limited seating Saturday night tasting menu that is a tribute to the Blackland Prairie region of Texas. The menu changes weekly and features only foods grown in this long, thin area that stretches from North Texas down to Central Texas. Expect dishes like Texas redfish with kuri soup, duck pot pie, and pecan smoked pork chop, all with the ranches and farms that raised the meats and produce identified. Vana will talk to each table participating in the tasting about how the dishes came together and the life of the food. It costs $120 per person, and drink pairings with the courses are available for an additional cost. The Heritage Table is in a converted historic home with squeaky floors, beautiful windows, and a lot of touches that show the age and grace of the place.