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The press the machines actually read

Every time an AI answer engine recommends a Dallas restaurant, it cites its sources. We keep the receipts. This is the ranked list of publications and individual articles the engines pulled from — which is, in practice, the list of places worth getting written about.

Citations
7824
Publications
1209
Editorial
41
Answers cited
1032
Median age of cited content not yet known
CClaude — PPerplexity — OOpenAI —

Weighted by citation, not by URL — a five-year-old round-up cited three hundred times shapes three hundred answers. Dated for 0% of 3079 article citations; the rest publish no date we can read, and are left out rather than guessed at.

Top publications

Editorial outlets have editors you can pitch. Directories — Yelp, TripAdvisor, OTAs, social — you can only appear on.

Engine
  1. 1 reddit.com Directory GGemini 617 OOpenAI 72 PPerplexity 125 814
  2. 2 dallasobserver.com Editorial CClaude 66 GGemini 316 OOpenAI 43 PPerplexity 68 493
  3. 3 dallasites101.com Editorial CClaude 37 GGemini 226 OOpenAI 8 PPerplexity 29 300
  4. 4 tripadvisor.com Directory CClaude 84 OOpenAI 27 PPerplexity 150 261
  5. 5 opentable.com Directory CClaude 84 OOpenAI 36 PPerplexity 82 202
  6. 6 visitdallas.com Directory CClaude 33 GGemini 103 OOpenAI 41 PPerplexity 25 202
  7. 7 yelp.com Directory CClaude 192 PPerplexity 8 200
  8. 8 diningout.com Editorial CClaude 26 GGemini 132 OOpenAI 22 PPerplexity 18 198
  9. 9 papercitymag.com Editorial CClaude 43 GGemini 142 PPerplexity 11 196
  10. 10 dmagazine.com Editorial CClaude 46 GGemini 2 OOpenAI 34 PPerplexity 58 140
  11. 11 dallas.eater.com Editorial OOpenAI 112 PPerplexity 16 128
  12. 12 youtube.com Directory GGemini 83 PPerplexity 23 106
  13. 13 culturemap.com Editorial GGemini 105 105
  14. 14 michelin.com Other GGemini 98 OOpenAI 4 102
  15. 15 wanderlog.com Directory CClaude 35 GGemini 32 OOpenAI 4 PPerplexity 6 77
  16. 16 aol.com Directory CClaude 69 69
  17. 17 resy.com Directory CClaude 2 GGemini 62 64
  18. 18 theinfatuation.com Editorial CClaude 22 OOpenAI 20 PPerplexity 21 63
  19. 19 cravedfw.com Editorial CClaude 7 GGemini 38 OOpenAI 5 PPerplexity 10 60
  20. 20 dallas.culturemap.com Editorial CClaude 26 OOpenAI 3 PPerplexity 27 56
  21. 21 restaurantsforkings.com Other CClaude 1 GGemini 22 PPerplexity 27 50
  22. 22 dallasnews.com Editorial GGemini 1 OOpenAI 35 PPerplexity 6 42
  23. 23 irvingtexas.com Other CClaude 1 GGemini 29 OOpenAI 9 PPerplexity 3 42
  24. 24 dallasnav.com Editorial CClaude 37 PPerplexity 3 40
  25. 25 fortworth.com Other CClaude 3 GGemini 27 OOpenAI 5 PPerplexity 3 38
  26. 26 ubereats.com Directory CClaude 15 GGemini 20 OOpenAI 1 36
  27. 27 monarchrestaurants.com Other GGemini 32 32
  28. 28 star-telegram.com Editorial GGemini 23 OOpenAI 3 PPerplexity 6 32
  29. 29 visitplano.com Other CClaude 1 GGemini 23 OOpenAI 4 PPerplexity 3 31
  30. 30 facebook.com Directory CClaude 4 PPerplexity 26 30
  31. 31 guide.michelin.com Editorial CClaude 7 OOpenAI 11 PPerplexity 12 30
  32. 32 blog.resy.com Editorial CClaude 11 OOpenAI 4 PPerplexity 14 29
  33. 33 tastingtable.com Editorial CClaude 5 GGemini 15 PPerplexity 6 26
  34. 34 do214.com Other CClaude 3 GGemini 22 25
  35. 35 wfaa.com Editorial CClaude 2 GGemini 20 PPerplexity 3 25
  36. 36 atly.com Other CClaude 2 GGemini 21 OOpenAI 1 24
  37. 37 instagram.com Directory CClaude 1 PPerplexity 23 24
  38. 38 chefgorji.com Other CClaude 1 GGemini 22 23
  39. 39 fortworthfounded.com Other CClaude 2 GGemini 15 PPerplexity 6 23
  40. 40 advocatemag.com Other GGemini 21 21

The articles doing the work

Not publications — individual pieces. A single well-placed round-up gets cited hundreds of times. Each carries the date it was published and, where the page declares one, the byline behind it.

  1. Best Dallas Restaurants Right Now ↗ dmagazine.com Editorial CClaude 9 PPerplexity 19 date unknown 28
  2. Best Dallas Restaurants 38 Essential ↗ dallas.eater.com Editorial OOpenAI 26 date unknown 26
  3. Restaurants G55711 Dallas Texas ↗ tripadvisor.com Directory PPerplexity 21 date unknown 21
  4. What Are Your Goto Restaurants In Dallas ↗ reddit.com Directory PPerplexity 13 date unknown 13
  5. Dallas Restaurants ↗ theinfatuation.com Editorial CClaude 1 PPerplexity 12 date unknown 13
  6. The Best Restaurants In Downtown Dallas ↗ dmagazine.com Editorial CClaude 2 PPerplexity 9 date unknown 11
  7. Dallas Restaurants ↗ opentable.com Directory PPerplexity 11 date unknown 11
  8. 3 Dallas Eateries Texas Monthlys ↗ aol.com Directory CClaude 9 date unknown 9
  9. The Best Restaurants In Dallas As Chosen By Dallas Chefs And Food Writers ↗ dallasobserver.com Editorial PPerplexity 9 date unknown 9
  10. Dallas Restaurant Guide ↗ onesmallblonde.com Other PPerplexity 9 date unknown 9
  11. Dallas Restaurants 2025 ↗ blog.resy.com Editorial CClaude 8 date unknown 8
  12. Dallas Restaurants ↗ blog.resy.com Editorial PPerplexity 8 date unknown 8
  13. Hidden Gems Dallas Texas ↗ dallasobserver.com Editorial CClaude 2 PPerplexity 6 date unknown 8
  14. The 13 Best Late Night Eats In Dallas Texas ↗ dallasobserver.com Editorial CClaude 2 PPerplexity 6 date unknown 8
  15. Best New Restaurants ↗ dmagazine.com Editorial CClaude 8 date unknown 8
  16. Dallas Restaurant Openings 2025 ↗ papercitymag.com Editorial CClaude 8 date unknown 8
  17. Most Romantic Restaurants Dallas ↗ theknot.com Other CClaude 2 PPerplexity 6 date unknown 8
  18. Hidden Gem Restaurants Dallas ↗ finedininglovers.com Editorial CClaude 1 PPerplexity 6 date unknown 7
  19. Best Restaurants Dallas Reservations Takeout ↗ opentable.com Directory CClaude 1 PPerplexity 6 date unknown 7
  20. Restaurants G55711 Zfp3 Dallas Texas ↗ tripadvisor.com Directory CClaude 4 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 7

What each engine reads

The engines do not share a reading list. Changing what one of them says about your room means getting into the sources that it pulls from.

Method

We ask the AI answer engines the questions diners actually ask, on a schedule, and store every answer with its citations. The counts above are citation rows — one per source URL an engine attached to an answer — scoped to the most recent complete observation run.

"Editorial" versus "directory" is our judgement call, applied by domain and tuned as the corpus grows. Editorial means a publication with an editor: a place a restaurant can be pitched. Directory means an aggregator, listing site, OTA, or user-generated platform — visible, but not pitchable.

Publication dates and bylines come from each cited page's own structured data — the publisher's JSON-LD, then its OpenGraph tags. We fetch politely, once per second, identify ourselves, and stop asking any site that declines. Where a page declares no date we say so; we never estimate one. The exception is Reddit, which refuses crawlers but encodes a post's position in its own submission counter in the URL — those dates are arithmetic, accurate to roughly a day, and marked approximate wherever they appear.