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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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dmagazine.com

Editorial
140 citations 126 answers CClaude 46 GGemini 2 OOpenAI 34 PPerplexity 58

Gemini caveat — 2 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 Dallas Restaurants Right Now ↗ CClaude 9 PPerplexity 19 date unknown 28
  2. The Best Restaurants In Downtown Dallas ↗ CClaude 2 PPerplexity 9 date unknown 11
  3. Best New Restaurants ↗ CClaude 8 date unknown 8
  4. The Ultimate Dallas Omakase Sushi Guide ↗ PPerplexity 5 date unknown 5
  5. The Best Restaurants And Bar Foods In Deep Ellum ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  6. The Best Restaurants In Frisco ↗ PPerplexity 4 date unknown 4
  7. Best French Food In Dallas Leslie Brenner Is Off Her Rocker ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  8. Bite Fight Sichuanese Cuisine ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  9. Oak Cliff ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  10. These Are The Best Indian Restaurants In Dallas Fort Worth ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  11. Best Cheap Food Eats Dallas Restaurant Deals ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  12. Dallas Steakhouses Best ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  13. Dallas Dining Trends 2026 ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  14. Best Brunches In Dallas ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  15. Best Dallas Restaurants Right Now ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. Where should I eat in Dallas tonight? CClaude 2 PPerplexity 6 8
  2. Best restaurants in downtown Dallas? CClaude 2 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 6
  3. Which Dallas restaurants do locals actually love? CClaude 2 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 6
  4. Where should I eat in Bishop Arts? CClaude 4 OOpenAI 1 5
  5. Best pre-game and pre-theater dining downtown Dallas? CClaude 1 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 5
  6. Where should I take out-of-town guests to eat in Dallas? CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  7. What are the best fine dining restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  8. Best French restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  9. Best tasting menus in Dallas? CClaude 2 OOpenAI 2 4
  10. Best omakase in Dallas? CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  11. Best late-night food in Deep Ellum? OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  12. Best restaurants in the Dallas Design District? PPerplexity 3 3
  13. Where should I eat in Oak Cliff? PPerplexity 3 3
  14. Where should I go for a special occasion dinner in Dallas? PPerplexity 3 3
  15. Best Indian food in Dallas? PPerplexity 3 3

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.