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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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Directory
202 citations 186 answers CClaude 33 GGemini 103 OOpenAI 41 PPerplexity 25

Gemini caveat — 103 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. Hidden Gems ↗ CClaude 4 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 7
  2. Special Occasion Dining In Dallas ↗ CClaude 2 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 5
  3. Nighttime Buzz Late Night Food Stops ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  4. Best Dallas Restaurants Featured In The Michelin Guide ↗ OOpenAI 3 date unknown 3
  5. Michelin Guide Texas ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  6. Best Dallas Restaurants Featured In The Michelin Guide ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  7. Best Juice Bars In Dallas ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  8. Lower Greenville Avenue ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  9. Authentic Mexican Restaurants ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  10. Korean Bbq Restaurants ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  11. New And Upcoming Restaurant Openings In Dallas ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  12. Nighttime Buzz Late Night Food Stops ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  13. Nighttime Buzz Rooftop Bars ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  14. Trendy New Places To Dine In Dallas ↗ PPerplexity 2 date unknown 2
  15. Michelin Guide Texas ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. Which Dallas restaurants are in or worthy of the Michelin Guide Texas? GGemini 3 OOpenAI 2 PPerplexity 6 11
  2. Best juice bars and non-coffee cafes in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 3 OOpenAI 2 PPerplexity 3 9
  3. What are the most underrated restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 2 PPerplexity 3 6
  4. Where should I go for a special occasion dinner in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 2 PPerplexity 3 6
  5. Where can I get good food late at night in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 1 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 6
  6. Best restaurants in The Cedars and near Fair Park? GGemini 4 OOpenAI 2 6
  7. Where should I take out-of-town guests to eat in Dallas? CClaude 4 OOpenAI 1 5
  8. Where should I eat on Lower Greenville? GGemini 1 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 5
  9. Best patio dining in Dallas? GGemini 3 OOpenAI 2 5
  10. Best cocktail bars in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 3 OOpenAI 1 5
  11. Best restaurants in the Dallas Design District? CClaude 1 GGemini 2 OOpenAI 1 4
  12. Best Tex-Mex in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 2 OOpenAI 1 4
  13. Best seafood restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 1 GGemini 2 OOpenAI 1 4
  14. Best restaurants in Trinity Groves? CClaude 1 GGemini 3 4
  15. Best Southern and soul food in Dallas? GGemini 3 OOpenAI 1 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.