Category coverage

Every category in the network taxonomy, with the number of Dallas venues currently resolving to it. Categories are published as pages at one venue and up. A category at zero is a gap, and gaps are the most useful column in this table.

Discovery category coverage for Dallas
Category	Family	Venues	Status
In the MICHELIN Guide	The Story	11	Covered
Live Music	The Room	5	Covered
BBQ and Smokehouses	On the Menu	4	Covered
Vegan and Plant-Based	On the Menu	3	Covered
The Whole Family Table	The Occasion	3	Covered
Rooftops and Patios	The Room	2	Thin
Sports on TV	The Occasion	2	Thin
Sushi	On the Menu	2	Thin
Big Groups	The Occasion	0	No coverage
Black-Owned	What They Stand For	0	No coverage
Brunch	On the Menu	0	No coverage
Celebration Restaurants	The Occasion	0	No coverage
Chef-Driven Kitchens	The Story	0	No coverage
Craft Cocktail Programs	On the Menu	0	No coverage
Dance Floors	The Room	0	No coverage
Date Night	The Occasion	0	No coverage
Dog-Friendly Patios	The Room	0	No coverage
Easy to Get Into	What They Stand For	0	No coverage
Gluten-Free Kitchens	On the Menu	0	No coverage
Great Places to Work	What They Stand For	0	No coverage
Great Views	The Room	0	No coverage
Historic Rooms	The Story	0	No coverage
In the Community	The Story	0	No coverage
Late-Night Food	On the Menu	0	No coverage
Locally Sourced	What They Stand For	0	No coverage
Neighborhood Institutions	The Story	0	No coverage
Origin Stories	The Story	0	No coverage
Private Dining and Buyouts	The Occasion	0	No coverage
Quiet Enough to Talk	The Room	0	No coverage
Seafood and Oysters	On the Menu	0	No coverage
Service Rituals	The Story	0	No coverage
Steakhouses	On the Menu	0	No coverage
Sustainable Kitchens	What They Stand For	0	No coverage
Tableside Experiences	The Room	0	No coverage
Waterfront Dining	The Room	0	No coverage
Women-Owned	What They Stand For	0	No coverage

What Dallas is not discoverable for at all

These are real reasons people choose a restaurant, and right now not one venue in our Dallas dataset is filed under any of them. Some of those are our research gaps. Some are the city's. Telling them apart is the next piece of work, and it is the reason this list is published instead of hidden.

Big Groups Will they seat twelve of us?
Black-Owned Who owns this?
Brunch Where is brunch worth the wait?
Celebration Restaurants Where do we do the birthday?
Chef-Driven Kitchens Is somebody actually cooking here?
Craft Cocktail Programs Who is taking the bar seriously?
Dance Floors Where is the floor actually full?
Date Night Where do I take somebody I want to impress?
Dog-Friendly Patios Can the dog come?
Easy to Get Into Can everybody at the table get in the door?
Gluten-Free Kitchens Can this kitchen actually handle it?
Great Places to Work Would I want a job here?
Great Views What am I looking at while I eat?
Historic Rooms What was this building before?
In the Community What does this place do when it is not serving dinner?
Late-Night Food What is still open?
Locally Sourced Who are they buying from?
Neighborhood Institutions What has been here forever?
Origin Stories Who built this and why?
Private Dining and Buyouts Can we take a room?
Quiet Enough to Talk Can we actually hear each other?
Seafood and Oysters Who is getting good product in?
Service Rituals What do they do that nobody else does?
Steakhouses Where do I take a steak night seriously?
Sustainable Kitchens What happens to what they do not serve?
Tableside Experiences What happens at the table?
Waterfront Dining Can I eat next to the water?
Women-Owned Who owns this?

What machines can read

No venue websites have been scanned yet. This section fills in the first time scripts/scan-discovery.php runs.

Who leads the categories that matter most

Ranked on measured readability, not on opinion and not on spend. A venue climbs this by publishing more about itself in a form a machine can read.

In the MICHELIN Guide

Cattleack Barbeque 71% readable
El Carlos Elegante 71% readable
Gemma 71% readable

How this was measured

Venue records are researched by hand and dated. Nothing is guessed: a field we cannot verify is left empty, and an empty field counts against the record rather than getting filled with something plausible.

Website checks are run by our own scanner against each venue's own site and its robots.txt. It reads what is publicly served, at normal request rates, identifying itself honestly. It does not log in, does not scrape anything behind a form, and stores only the pass, fail, or unknown result of each check.

Discovery categories are resolved from a venue's structured attributes plus explicit editorial tagging for the things attributes cannot express, like an origin story or a service ritual. The full category taxonomy is public at /data/discovery-categories.json and the venue dataset is public at /api/places.json.

Venues can pay for extra attention here. Paid spots are always labeled as sponsored and kept out of every measurement on this page. A score only moves when what a venue shows the world gets better.

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