Hardest reservations in Dallas

The Dallas list

Restaurant	Cuisine	Area	Price	Rating
Nick & Sam's	Steakhouse		$$$$	★ 4.7
Fearing's Restaurant	Steakhouse		$$$$	★ 4.7
Dakota's Steakhouse	Steakhouse		$$$	★ 4.6
Lucia	Italian		$$$	★ 4.8
Bob's Steak & Chop House	Steakhouse		$$$$	★ 4.7
Shinsei Restaurant	Sushi		$$$	★ 4.8
The French Room	French		$$$$	★ 4.7
MIRADOR	New American		$$$	★ 4.8
The Charles	Italian		$$$	★ 4.8
Kinzo	Sushi		$$$$
La Stella Cucina Verace	Italian		$$$
Sushi Kozy	Sushi		$$$
LOCAL restaurant	New American		$$$
Te Deseo	Latin American		$$$
Nuri Steakhouse	Steakhouse		$$$
Yujo Umi	Sushi		$$$
Quarter Acre	New American		$$$
El Carlos Elegante	Mexican		$$$
Monarch Restaurant	Italian		$$$$
Tatsu Dallas	Sushi		$$$$
Stillwell's	Steakhouse		$$$$
il Bracco	Italian		$$$

How booking windows work in Dallas

Almost every room on this list releases tables the same few ways: a rolling window (a set number of days out, often opening at a fixed hour), a monthly drop (the whole next month released on one morning), or prepaid ticketed seatings for tasting counters. Prime times — Friday and Saturday, 7 to 9pm — are claimed within minutes of each release.

After the release, cancellations are the only way in. Plans change, parties shrink, and tables return to Resy, OpenTable, Tock and the restaurants' own books with no announcement. Whoever sees the opening first gets it — which is a watching problem, not a refreshing problem.

Restaurant alerts are rolling out city by city

Dallas is on the ItOpened restaurant rollout list. Join the watch now and you are in line as scanning switches on here: when a watched restaurant's cancelled table matches your party size and dates, you get a text with a direct link to book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell tables — monitoring is all we do.

Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Venue facts come from public directory listings.