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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.

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Directory
69 citations 46 answers CClaude 69

Cited articles

  1. 3 Dallas Eateries Texas Monthlys ↗ CClaude 9 date unknown 9
  2. Dallas Steakhouse Makes 2026 List ↗ CClaude 5 date unknown 5
  3. 2 Dallas Restaurants Earn Star ↗ CClaude 4 date unknown 4
  4. 5 Best Restaurant Patios Dallas ↗ CClaude 4 date unknown 4
  5. Fort Worth Snubbed Texas Monthly ↗ CClaude 4 date unknown 4
  6. Slump Great Fort Worth Restaurants ↗ CClaude 3 date unknown 3
  7. Chef Dallas Fort Worth Area ↗ CClaude 3 date unknown 3
  8. Austin Spot Makes Texas Monthlys ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  9. Best Dallas Restaurants Dining Valentines ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  10. Best Bbq Arlington Now Rangers ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  11. 10 Best Tex Mex Restaurants ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  12. 3 Sc Restaurants Among Best ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  13. 4 Restaurants Fort Worth Made ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  14. 10 Best Restaurants Award Winning ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  15. 8 Fort Worth Restaurants Visited ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1

Questions these citations answered

What a diner was asking when an engine reached for this source.

  1. Best new restaurants that just opened in Fort Worth? CClaude 4 4
  2. What are the best new restaurants in Dallas right now? CClaude 3 3
  3. Best Tex-Mex in Fort Worth? CClaude 3 3
  4. Which DFW restaurants are James Beard nominees or winners? CClaude 3 3
  5. Where should I eat in Dallas tonight? CClaude 2 2
  6. What are the most underrated restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 2 2
  7. Best date night restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 2 2
  8. Best barbecue in Dallas? CClaude 2 2
  9. Best sushi in Dallas? CClaude 2 2
  10. Best pizza in Dallas? CClaude 2 2
  11. What are the best hidden-gem restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 2 2
  12. Which DFW restaurants are worth a special drive? CClaude 2 2
  13. Best restaurants in the Fort Worth Stockyards? CClaude 2 2
  14. Best restaurants for solo dining in Dallas? CClaude 2 2
  15. Best restaurants for a birthday dinner in Dallas? CClaude 2 2

Venues named alongside it

Rooms the engines named in the same answers that cited this source. Co-occurrence, not proof of cause — but it is the shape of the influence.

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.