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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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diningout.com

Editorial
198 citations 186 answers CClaude 26 GGemini 132 OOpenAI 22 PPerplexity 18

Gemini caveat — 132 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 Live Music Restaurants In Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  2. The Best Sushi Restaurants In Dallas ↗ OOpenAI 4 date unknown 4
  3. The Essential Oak Cliff Dining Guide Where To Eat In Dallas Most Dynamic Neighborhood ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  4. Where To Dine In Lower Greenville ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  5. 12 Must Visit Restaurants In Bishop Arts District ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  6. 18 Essential Dallas Restaurants To Take Out Of Town Guests From Texas Bbq To Michelin Starred Dining ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  7. Best Budget Friendly Restaurants In Dallas 12 Cheap Eats Spots With Meals Under 15 ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  8. First Bites Lasting Impressions Dallass Most Talked About Restaurant Openings Of 2025 ↗ CClaude 3 date unknown 3
  9. The 13 Most Romantic Restaurants In Dallas ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  10. The Best Sushi Restaurants In Dallas ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  11. The Top Places To Dine In Irving ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  12. 10 Must Visit Chinese Restaurants In Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  13. 10 Of The Best Ramen Spots In And Around Dallas To Try Right Now ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  14. 12 Best Restaurants For Vegetarian And Vegan Food In Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  15. 12 Best Restaurants For Vegetarian And Vegan Food In Dallas ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. Best restaurants that just opened in Dallas this month? CClaude 1 GGemini 7 8
  2. Where should I eat in Oak Cliff? CClaude 1 GGemini 3 PPerplexity 3 7
  3. Best restaurants with live music in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 2 PPerplexity 3 6
  4. Which DFW restaurants are James Beard nominees or winners? GGemini 6 6
  5. Best value restaurants under $15 a plate in Dallas? GGemini 3 PPerplexity 3 6
  6. Best restaurants in the Dallas Design District? GGemini 4 OOpenAI 1 5
  7. Where should I eat on Lower Greenville? CClaude 1 GGemini 1 PPerplexity 3 5
  8. Best restaurants in Addison (Restaurant Row)? CClaude 1 GGemini 3 OOpenAI 1 5
  9. Best restaurants for groups and large parties in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 3 OOpenAI 1 5
  10. Best restaurants in Deep Ellum? GGemini 3 OOpenAI 1 4
  11. Best restaurants in Knox-Henderson? CClaude 1 GGemini 2 OOpenAI 1 4
  12. Best restaurants in downtown Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 3 4
  13. Best Vietnamese food in Dallas? GGemini 3 OOpenAI 1 4
  14. Best bakeries and pastry shops in Dallas? GGemini 3 OOpenAI 1 4
  15. What are the best new restaurant openings in DFW this year? GGemini 4 4

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.