THE SEARCH LEDGER · DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TEXAS · FOOD & DINING
Every month Dallas-Fort Worth types 1,340,750 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them.
Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in AUG and lowest in JAN.
SRC: Google Trends relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Dallas-Fort Worth — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword.
The 20 highest-volume of 745 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is “celebration restaurant dallas” at $4.77.
| # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restaurants near me | 673,000 | $0.65 | 7 | transactional |
| 2 | coffee shops near me | 74,000 | $0.40 | 0 | transactional |
| 3 | breakfast near me | 74,000 | $0.54 | 23 | transactional |
| 4 | bars near me | 60,500 | $0.40 | 0 | transactional |
| 5 | pizza near me | 49,500 | $1.46 | 12 | transactional |
| 6 | dallas restaurants | 18,100 | $1.44 | 24 | commercial |
| 7 | best restaurants in dallas | 9,900 | $2.07 | 18 | commercial |
| 8 | mint restaurant dallas | 9,900 | $2.37 | 4 | commercial |
| 9 | dallas brunch | 8,100 | $0.87 | 6 | commercial |
| 10 | bishop arts restaurants | 8,100 | $0.51 | 11 | commercial |
| 11 | dunston's steakhouse dallas | 8,100 | $0.82 | 0 | commercial |
| 12 | serious pizza deep ellum | 8,100 | $1.27 | 0 | commercial |
| 13 | black forest bakery in dallas | 6,600 | $1.16 | 0 | commercial |
| 14 | kenny's wood fired grill addison | 6,600 | $1.08 | branded | |
| 15 | mexican restaurants dallas | 5,400 | $0.37 | 20 | commercial |
| 16 | eno's pizza tavern | 5,400 | $0.39 | 5 | commercial |
| 17 | bistro 31 highland park village | 5,400 | $2.29 | 2 | commercial |
| 18 | allgood cafe dallas | 4,400 | $0.25 | 10 | commercial |
| 19 | celebration restaurant dallas | 4,400 | $4.77 | 20 | commercial |
| 20 | delucca gaucho pizza & wine dallas | 4,400 | $0.87 | 0 | commercial |
SRC: DataForSEO, Dallas-Fort Worth metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are Google Ads twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored.
Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the map pack, and who holds page one.
SRC: DataForSEO, Dallas-Fort Worth metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track.
The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are.
| RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Kitchen + Kocktails | 4.7 ★ | 22,388 | Soul | YES |
| #2 | Kitchen + Kocktails | 4.7 ★ | 22,388 | Soul | YES |
| #3 | Kitchen + Kocktails | 4.7 ★ | 22,388 | Soul | YES |
| #4 | Shivas Bar and Grill | 4.9 ★ | 18,783 | Indian | YES |
| #5 | Shivas Bar and Grill | 4.9 ★ | 18,783 | Indian | YES |
| #6 | Terry Black's Barbecue | 4.7 ★ | 14,485 | Barbecue | YES |
| #7 | Y.O. Ranch Steakhouse | 4.8 ★ | 13,385 | Steak | YES |
| #8 | JOEY Dallas | 4.9 ★ | 11,283 | Restaurant | YES |
| #9 | Namak Indian Cuisine | 4.8 ★ | 10,703 | Indian | YES |
| #10 | The Woolworth | 4.9 ★ | 9,603 | Restaurant | YES |
| #11 | The Woolworth | 4.9 ★ | 9,603 | Restaurant | YES |
| #12 | Pecan Lodge | 4.4 ★ | 8,703 | Barbecue | YES |
SRC: Google Maps listings, DataForSEO, Dallas-Fort Worth metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim.
Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for.
SRC: DataForSEO, Dallas-Fort Worth metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set.
People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Dallas-Fort Worth food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing.
What are the top 10 restaurants in Dallas?
Where to eat in Wilkes Barre, PA?
Where to eat in Cleveland, Texas?
What are the 10 best restaurants?
What is the 2 hour rule for pizza?
What is the most famous pizza in Dallas?
Who has the best pizza deals out right now?
What is the best pizza in Louisville, KY?
SRC: Google People Also Ask, DataForSEO, Dallas-Fort Worth metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here.
Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today.
Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand.
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HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE
Every figure is collected, not estimated. Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled.
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas · Food & Dining · 745 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026