DFW Restaurant Week marks 30 years with reservations now open

Reservations for DFW Restaurant Week 2026 opened July 16, launching a monthlong run of prix-fixe meals at more than 160 restaurants across North Texas. The campaign is marking its 30th anniversary this year, and portions of the proceeds are again set to benefit the North Texas Food Bank and Lena Pope.

For Collin County diners, the most useful detail is that the official restaurant list includes Rise Nº6 in Plano, putting at least one local dining room in the mix for the annual promotion. The reservation system also lets diners build a personalized itinerary and filter restaurants by cuisine, curated collection, city, county and week participating, a practical feature for anyone trying to sort through the metroplex-wide lineup without starting from scratch.

The wider roster reaches some of the region’s best-known dining rooms, including Chamberlain’s Steak & Fish, Fearing’s Restaurant, Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, Al Biernat’s North and Rye. That breadth is part of what has kept the promotion relevant for three decades: it gives restaurants a built-in marketing push while letting diners sample higher-end menus at a fixed price.

The event’s charitable record gives the anniversary extra weight. Over the past 29 years, DFW Restaurant Week says it has raised more than $11 million in charitable donations, including $1 million in 2019 alone. North Texas Food Bank says the campaign supports its work from the Perot Family Campus in Plano, where the nonprofit operates as a top-ranked hunger-relief organization serving a 12-county area.

The food bank, founded in 1982, says it helped provide access to more than 97 million nutritious meals in fiscal 2023. That scale helps explain why Restaurant Week has become more than a late-summer dining promotion in North Texas. It is a recurring boost for restaurants, a reservation rush for diners and a steady fundraiser for hunger relief across the region.