# Food & Dining search demand in Dallas-Fort Worth

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.

BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/dallas-fort-worth/food-dining#colophon)

745

KEYWORDS TRACKED

Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Dallas-Fort Worth metro, Sep 8, 2026

1,340,750

SEARCHES / MONTH

Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Dallas-Fort Worth metro, Sep 8, 2026

$1.1M

MONTHLY AD VALUE

Source: volume × CPC, computed

$1.40

AVERAGE CPC

Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Dallas-Fort Worth metro, Sep 8, 2026

## When Dallas-Fort Worth searches for food & dining

Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in AUG and lowest in JAN.

Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 83, February 84, March 97, April 95, May 97, June 96, July 95, August 100, September 96, October 98, November 96, December 96.

Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) 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.

## What Dallas-Fort Worth pays per click for food & dining

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 |

Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Dallas-Fort Worth metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored.

## Who owns the Dallas-Fort Worth food & dining results

Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one.

restaurants near me

673,000/mo · $0.65 CPC · difficulty 7

MAP PACK

-   1 The Woolworth 4.9★ 9,600
-   2 Twisted Trompo 4.4★ 1,900
-   3 Rodeo Bar 4.7★ 1,600

ORGANIC TOP 5

-   1 yelp.com
-   2 ubereats.com
-   3 reddit.com
-   4 opentable.com
-   5 dallasnews.com

pizza near me

49,500/mo · $1.46 CPC · difficulty 12

MAP PACK

-   1 Zalat Pizza 4.4★ 950
-   2 Good Side Pizza Pub 4.8★ 202
-   3 Bellatrino Pizzeria 4.9★ 3,200

ORGANIC TOP 5

-   1 locations.papajohns.com LOCAL
-   2 tripadvisor.com
-   3 mimispizzeriadallas.com
-   4 locations.pizzahut.com LOCAL
-   5 yelp.com

Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), 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 food & dining businesses competing in Dallas-Fort Worth

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 |

Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), 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.

## Food & Dining brands Dallas-Fort Worth searches by name

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.

kenny's wood fired grill addison 6,600/mo

heim barbecue on mockingbird 3,600/mo

ldu coffee dallas 1,300/mo

heim barbecue 880/mo

coffee in dallas 590/mo

whataburger dallas 480/mo

gastropub dallas 390/mo

bistro 31 dallas 260/mo

Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Dallas-Fort Worth metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set.

## What Dallas-Fort Worth asks about food & dining

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?

Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Dallas-Fort Worth metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here.

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## More Dallas-Fort Worth search data

Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand.

[Entertainment · 237K searches/mo](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/dallas-fort-worth/entertainment)[Home Services · 43K searches/mo](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/dallas-fort-worth/home-services)

FOOD & DINING IN OTHER METROS

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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

Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 745 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. If a number here is wrong, [tell us](https://seobandwagon.com/contact).

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