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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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papercitymag.com

Editorial
196 citations 163 answers CClaude 43 GGemini 142 PPerplexity 11

Gemini caveat — 142 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. Dallas Restaurant Openings 2025 ↗ CClaude 8 date unknown 8
  2. Dallas Restaurants Good For Groups Large Parties ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  3. Dallas Lower Greenville Guide Restaurants Bars Entertainment Granada Theater ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  4. Fort Worth 30 Best Restaurants Bonnells Cafe Modern Toro Toro ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  5. Best Dishes New Dallas Restaurants 2025 ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  6. Best Steakhouse In Dallas ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  7. Fort Worth Best Restaurants Lonesome Dove Heim Barbecue Ellerbe Fine Foods ↗ PPerplexity 2 date unknown 2
  8. New Dallas Restaurant Openings Babel ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  9. Times Ten Cellars ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  10. 10 Best French Restaurants Dallas Souffle Authentic Bistro ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  11. Best Barbecue Restaurants Fort Worth ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  12. Best Burgers Dallas Rodeo Goat Easy Slider ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  13. Best Cocktail Bars In Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  14. Best Dallas Happy Hours ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  15. Best Dishes Fort Worth Restaurants Dos Mares The Mont ↗ CClaude 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 3 GGemini 7 10
  2. What are the best new restaurant openings in DFW this year? CClaude 1 GGemini 6 7
  3. What are the best new restaurants in Dallas right now? CClaude 3 GGemini 3 6
  4. Best restaurants in historic downtown McKinney? CClaude 1 GGemini 5 6
  5. Best steakhouse in Fort Worth? CClaude 2 GGemini 4 6
  6. Most anticipated new restaurant openings in DFW? CClaude 1 GGemini 5 6
  7. Best restaurants in the Dallas Design District? CClaude 1 GGemini 4 5
  8. Best happy hours in Dallas? CClaude 2 GGemini 3 5
  9. Best restaurants on Magnolia Avenue / Near Southside Fort Worth? GGemini 3 PPerplexity 2 5
  10. Best restaurants for groups and large parties in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 1 PPerplexity 3 5
  11. Where should I eat on Lower Greenville? GGemini 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  12. Best sushi in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 3 4
  13. Best pizza in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 3 4
  14. Best burgers in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 3 4
  15. Best wine bars in Dallas? CClaude 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.