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28 restaurants (open on Monday!) to kick-start your week

Columbia River sturgeon at Montlake Cut. The Preston Center seafood place – and many other...
Columbia River sturgeon at Montlake Cut. The Preston Center seafood place – and many other new and newish Dallas restaurants – are open on Monday.(Rose Baca / Staff )

Mondays can be such a drag. Not only is it the day that starts the workweek, but it's also the night when it's hard to figure out what to do for dinner. Sure, you can open a box of mac-and-cheese at home or toss a salad. But maybe you need a more festive pick-me-up, a room full of diners and a glass of vino, some background music, a drop of social buzz. You need to live a little!  Too bad so many restaurants are dark on Mondays.

Say what? It's not like that anymore?!

That's right! More and more Dallas restaurants are welcoming diners on Monday nights.  Starting with the newest and working backward to some old faves, here are a bunch – including some very hot ones – that could make your Monday evening a delicious one.

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Sprezza

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Chef Julian Barsotti's new Sprezza, a laid-back Roman tavern, would cheer up any dreary Monday. Barsotti's other two places – Nonna and Carbone's Fine Food and Wine – are open the first night of the week, as well.

Top Knot

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One of Dallas' newest four-star restaurants, Top Knot is the more casual, less expensive place upstairs from Uchi (also open Monday; read on). The restaurant, open every night, features chef Angela Hernandez's modern Asian fusion cooking.

Mudhen Meat and Greens

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Most of the eateries in the Dallas Farmers Markets new food hall, the Market, close early, but the free-standing restaurant across the way, Mudhen Meat and Greens, is definitely a dinner destination – every night of the week.  Many of the owners' other dining rooms, including Lark on the Park and the Meddlesome Moth, are open nightly, too.

Montlake Cut

One of the most inviting restaurants to debut in the last sixth months, Montlake Cut – chef Nick Badovinus' seafood place in Preston Center – is a great spot for Dungeness crab, West Coast oysters and other ocean treats from the Pacific Northwest.  Badovinus' Neighborhood Services restaurants (the original, Addison and Bar and Grill) are open Mondays, too. So is Off-Site Kitchen, but just until 7 p.m. (it's open later other nights).

Wayward Sons

Across from the Granada Theater on lower Greenville, chef Graham Dodds is turning heads with his modern Texas cooking – including some very original vegetarian dishes (and, yes, steak!) – at Wayward Sons. Guess what: It's open on Monday!

Filament

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Filament, which earned a four-star review in February, has since lost its chef, Cody Sharp. It remains to be seen how things will play out there, but in the meantime, it's still one of Deep Ellum's most interesting eating places. Cool dining room, great wine list, excellent cocktails. Big sister restaurant FT33 is closed on Monday.

The Theodore

If you're a Tim Byres fan, Monday nights can be downright lovable: Both Smoke restaurants (Oak Cliff and Plano) serve dinner. So does his newest place: the Theodore. It's that place where all those peckish folks in NorthPark Center are headed. Not a small fringe benefit: Superb cocktails.

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18th and Vine BBQ

Half a block away from Sprezza, Matt Dallman and Scott Gottlich feature Kansas City-style barbecue and cheffier dishes at 18th and Vine BBQ. If Monday really got to you, that plate of burnt ends or fried okra might be just the ticket.

Uchi 

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Shortly after being named The Best in DFW New Restaurant of 2015, Uchi and its talented chef de cuisine Nilton "Junior" Borges – who helped the restaurant earn a rare five stars in its first review – parted ways. It has not yet been re-reviewed since chef de cuisine Jeramie Robison took over. Monday night could be just the moment to check it out.

Yama Izakaya and Sushi

Think dining on a Monday night means you'll be in bed early? You can nibble Japanese bar snacks and sip sake till the wee hours, if you head to Plano's Yama Izakaya and Sushi. The recently reviewed three-star establishment stays open till 2 a.m. Sister restaurant Yama Sushi in Dallas is open Monday, too.

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Not enough there to choose from? Here are more favorites, all open Monday nights: Bambu Thai-Asian Cuisine; Casa Rubia; RemedyAl Biernat'sStampede 66; Lockhart Smokehouse Planothe Grape; Bolsa; Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck.  And you can usually count on restaurants in hotels, such as the Mansion Restaurant, CBD Provisions and Front Room Tavern, to welcome you on Mondays, too.