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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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dallasnews.com

Editorial
42 citations 38 answers GGemini 1 OOpenAI 35 PPerplexity 6

Gemini caveat — 1 of these citations come back as opaque Google redirect links with no readable destination. For those, we know the publication but not the article, so they are counted here and left out of the article list rather than shown as dead links.

Cited articles

  1. Best New Restaurants Dallas Rainbowcat Mamani Sushi Kozy 2025 ↗ OOpenAI 4 date unknown 4
  2. Look Back At D Fws James Beard Awards Restaurant And Chef Semifinalists Nominees ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  3. Where To Eat New Restaurants Dallas Fort Worth Opening 2026 ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  4. Best Restaurants Dallas Where To Eat May 2026 ↗ OOpenAI 3 date unknown 3
  5. What To Eat Amfm Diner Dallas Now Open Concerts ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  6. Craft 2 Story Rooftop Restaurant Open Dallas ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  7. Richardsons Sichuan King Dishes Up Spicy Pleasures 2 Stars ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  8. 12 Budget Friendly Restaurants In North Texas ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
  9. 50 Years Later Dallas Oldest Woman Owned Bar Is Still Going Strong ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
  10. Gelato La Boca Snider Plaza Dallas ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
  11. Lunch Special Affordable Deals Dfw Restaurants ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
  12. Lunami New Restaurant Bishop Arts Dallas Oak Cliff Steakhouse Latin Food ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
  13. Sneak Peek Ritual Dallas Bar Ross Hall ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
  14. Best Burgers Dallas Evan Grant Hamburgers ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
  15. Ichika Japanese Restaurant Now Open Plano North Texas Kaiseki Dinner ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. What are the best new restaurant openings in DFW this year? OOpenAI 2 PPerplexity 3 5
  2. Which DFW restaurants are James Beard nominees or winners? PPerplexity 3 3
  3. Best Mediterranean restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  4. Best chef-driven restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  5. Best value restaurants under $15 a plate in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  6. What are the best new restaurants in Dallas right now? OOpenAI 1 1
  7. Where should I eat in Bishop Arts? OOpenAI 1 1
  8. What are the most underrated restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 1 1
  9. Best Mexican restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 1 1
  10. Best modern Texas cuisine in Dallas? GGemini 1 1
  11. Best Thai food in Dallas? OOpenAI 1 1
  12. Best Indian food in Dallas? OOpenAI 1 1
  13. Best seafood restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 1 1
  14. Best burgers in Dallas? OOpenAI 1 1
  15. Best happy hours in Dallas? OOpenAI 1 1

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.