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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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dallasobserver.com

Editorial
493 citations 360 answers CClaude 66 GGemini 316 OOpenAI 43 PPerplexity 68

Gemini caveat — 316 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. The Best Restaurants In Dallas As Chosen By Dallas Chefs And Food Writers ↗ PPerplexity 9 date unknown 9
  2. Hidden Gems Dallas Texas ↗ CClaude 2 PPerplexity 6 date unknown 8
  3. The 13 Best Late Night Eats In Dallas Texas ↗ CClaude 2 PPerplexity 6 date unknown 8
  4. Best Restaurants In Dallas Texas ↗ CClaude 3 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 6
  5. Michelin Restaurant Dallas Texas ↗ CClaude 3 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 6
  6. Dallas Most Underrated Restaurants ↗ CClaude 2 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 5
  7. Most Anticipated Dallas Restaurant Openings Of 2026 ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 4 date unknown 5
  8. Best Happy Hour In Dallas Texas ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  9. Best Rooftop Restaurants Bar Dallas Texas ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  10. Dallas Spring Biggest Restaurant Openings ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  11. New Dallas Restaurants That Opened In May 2026 ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  12. Best Affordable Meals In Dallas ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  13. Dallas New Restaurants Spring 2026 ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  14. Where To Eat Alone In Dallas Texas A Restaurant Guide ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  15. Best Dallas Restaurants To Take Visitors ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. What are the most underrated restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 2 GGemini 4 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 12 19
  2. What are the best new restaurants in Dallas right now? CClaude 2 GGemini 5 PPerplexity 7 14
  3. Best pizza in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 11 OOpenAI 1 13
  4. What are the best hidden-gem restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 2 GGemini 3 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 6 12
  5. Best Chinese food in Dallas? CClaude 2 GGemini 9 OOpenAI 1 12
  6. Which Dallas restaurants are in or worthy of the Michelin Guide Texas? GGemini 8 PPerplexity 3 11
  7. Best restaurants that just opened in Dallas this month? CClaude 3 GGemini 7 10
  8. Best dive bars in Dallas? CClaude 2 GGemini 6 OOpenAI 1 9
  9. Most anticipated new restaurant openings in DFW? CClaude 2 GGemini 2 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 4 9
  10. Best Tex-Mex in Dallas? CClaude 4 GGemini 4 8
  11. Best Italian restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 3 GGemini 4 OOpenAI 1 8
  12. Best breakfast spots in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 5 OOpenAI 2 8
  13. Best happy hours in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 3 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 8
  14. Best ramen in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 7 8
  15. Best restaurants for solo dining in Dallas? CClaude 3 GGemini 2 PPerplexity 3 8

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.