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The Best Sioux Falls Restaurants Right Now
From Brazilian comfort food to serious wine bars, Sioux Falls has a dining scene with real range
By Jamie Dutton
Updated May 14, 2026
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AUTHOR BIO: With family spread across the Midwest and a job that has her in airports near daily, Jamie Dutton finds herself across the Heartland regularly. She’s partial to BPTs a Bell's.
When I first started coming to Sioux Falls for work in the early 2000s, I could count my favorite restaurants on one hand and still have fingers left for gripping the steering wheel. There were a few reliable meals, a few places with enough local gravity to become habit, and plenty of dinners chosen less by appetite than by proximity to my hotel.
That’s not the city I find now. The best restaurants in Sioux Falls run from Brazilian comfort food and handmade pasta to wine bars, tasting menus, serious burgers and kitchens that understand the difference between feeding people and making dinner feel considered. I still travel here for work, but now the hard part isn’t finding a place worth eating. It’s deciding which one I’m willing to miss.
These are the best Sioux Falls restaurants right now.
22TEN Kitchen Cocktails
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22TEN is the kind of southwest Sioux Falls restaurant that’s modern, always busy, and polished without tipping into corporate hotel-bar territory. The menu has a little bit of everything, from shrimp tacos and duck sliders to steak frites and smoked gouda mac and cheese, which makes it useful for the table where one person wants dinner and another wants three shared things and a cocktail.
Best for: A polished dinner with a group
BibiSol
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BibiSol gives downtown Sioux Falls the kind of Mexican restaurant that starts with the corn. Chef Marcela Salas, a 2025 James Beard semifinalist for Emerging Chef, opened it with her mother, Patricia Burbine, and her fiancé after building Salas Salsas from a farmers market stand into a food truck and retail brand. The menu is built around nixtamalized corn and family recipes, with tortillas, tamales, tacos, sopes, empanadas, totopos and salsas. Perhaps it’s the mother-and-daughter team, or maybe it’s the fact that it developed regulars so quickly, but the place feel less like a new arrival and more like a restaurant that’s found a home in Sioux Falls.
Best for: Nixtamal tacos, tamales and salsas
Big Sioux Diner & Dive
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Big Sioux Diner & Dive sits in The Steel District with a riverfront patio, a diner-ish interior and a menu that now stretches well past the burgers that gave the place its first identity. Breakfast runs all day, the bar side feels built for a longer hang, and the menu gives in to the right instincts with hash browns, walleye bites, cheese curds, fish and chips and stacked burgers.
Best for: Riverfront burgers and all-day breakfast
Blarney Stone Pub
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Blarney Stone hits all the pub checks: dark wood, stonework, beer signs, music, and enough density in the place to make downtown Sioux Falls feel a little louder than it is. The food follows the setting, with Guinness Irish stew, shepherd’s pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash, chislic, and pub pretzels that make the decision to stay for another round feel like a good idea.
Best for: Irish pub food downtown
Carnaval Brazilian Steakhouse
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Carnaval has been part of Sioux Falls since 2005, and it still has the energy of a restaurant built for birthdays, big tables and people who understand the green card should not be flipped casually. The gaúcho service brings the rotisserie meats tableside, but the meal works best when it is not treated as a meat sprint, with feijoada, pão de queijo, fried polenta, fried banana and the salad bar giving the table more than one speed.
Best for: A full Brazilian steakhouse night
Chef Lance’s on Phillips
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Chef Lance White and Jenny White opened Chef Lance’s on Phillips in 2020, and the restaurant still feels like a downtown special-occasion place run by people who are close enough to the floor to notice how the night is going. The lighting is low, the mood leans romantic, and the food sits in that Midwestern comfort-meets-date-night lane, with steaks, pasta, seafood, rotating features and the sense that dinner here is meant to be an event.
Best for: A downtown date night
Dahlia Kitchen + Bar
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Dahlia brings color and volume to The Steel District, where the point is not a quiet plate of tacos eaten in monkish reflection. The restaurant comes from Josh Thoma’s group and leans into contemporary Mexican cooking with ancho-rubbed ribeye tacos, birria, tequila and enough visual energy to make it feel like the right choice before or after something else downtown.
Best for: Tacos, tequila and a lively night out
HK
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HK is chef Bryan Moscatello’s tasting-menu restaurant, and it has the rare Sioux Falls distinction of asking diners to hand over the evening and trust the pacing. The space has been described as more residential than restaurant, with fireplaces, soft seating and a dinner-party feel, but the food is the serious part: seasonal, multi-course and built for people who want the best restaurants in Sioux Falls to include something more ambitious than another nice steak.
Best for: A full tasting-menu experience
Maribella Ristorante
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Maribella Ristorante is the Italian restaurant Riccardo and Marybeth Tarabelsi built after R Wine Bar, and it has the lived-in confidence of a place that knew its audience before it opened. The dining area has an open-kitchen energy, the wine list stays Italian, and the menu moves through antipasti, pizze, primi, secondi and a tasting menu with enough structure to make dinner feel like an evening rather than an errand.
Best for: Northern Italian dinner and wine
Morrie’s Steakhouse
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Morrie’s is Sioux Falls in steakhouse mode: polished, dim, a little theatrical and very aware that people come here because they want dinner to feel like an occasion. Steak is the center of the menu, from filet to tomahawk wagyu, but the kitchen gives the non-steak people some cover with sea bass, walleye, pork chop, 100-layer lasagna and enough sides and sauces to keep the table busy.
Best for: A classic steakhouse dinner
R Wine Bar & Kitchen
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R Wine Bar still feels like the social headquarters of Riccardo and Marybeth Tarabelsi’s Sioux Falls restaurant orbit. It is warm, Italian-leaning and more animated than a standard wine bar, especially on live jazz nights, with salumi, bruschetta, pasta, wine dinners and the kind of service that makes a glass of wine feel like the start of the night instead of the whole idea.
Best for: Wine, jazz and Italian plates
Roots of Brasil
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Roots of Brasil opened in 2022 with co-owners Mark and Kaila Gillespie, Tania and Kelly Grogan, and chef Jamie Grogan, and the restaurant has the relaxed, tropical-cattle-ranch look of a place trying to honor Brazil. The menu brings real range to Sioux Falls, with feijoada, bacalhau, moqueca, picanha, pão de queijo, mandioca fritas and family-style churrasco that makes the place especially good when nobody at the table wants the same thing.
Best for: Brazilian comfort food with a group
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