About Top of Dallas.

The same handful of marquee rooms with publicists get covered to exhaustion, while the neighborhood spots locals drive across town for on a Tuesday night stay buried under sponsored listings on the platforms most people search.

Most Dallas coverage chases the same marquee rooms: the chandeliers, the wine lists, the see-and-be-seen Uptown circuit. That is a real part of Dallas dining, but it is not the whole city. The Garland Vietnamese corridors, the Richardson and Carrollton Korean belts, the MacArthur Blvd South Asian stretch in Irving, the chain-free blocks of Bishop Arts in Oak Cliff, none of that lands in the glossy roundups. We built this guide because Dallas has two dining cities running in parallel, and local eaters navigate both.

We track 1,048 restaurants across Dallas and the northern Metroplex: intown neighborhoods from Deep Ellum to Knox-Henderson to the Design District, and the suburban corridors that define the other half of this city, Richardson, Carrollton, Garland, Plano, Irving. That means Tex-Mex and Texas BBQ alongside Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian, and Thai. It means the big-occasion steakhouse and the laundromat-turned-fried-chicken operation on Maple Ave. Dallas is a car-dependent, strip-mall-comfortable, genuinely diverse eating city, and we cover it that way. We track 166+ restaurants across the metro against the same methodology; the full method is laid out at How We Work.

Top of Dallas is published by Top Rated Network LLC, an independent, veteran-owned Las Vegas media company that runs city dining guides on the same methodology across the country. The rankings and the writing are produced by this site’s own desk.

The site is small by design. No investors, no growth pressure, no quarterly board meeting that needs engagement numbers to keep climbing. The rankings answer to the data; the data answers to the city.

The methodology (Bayesian-weighted ratings, weekly recalculation) is the same one Top Rated Network uses across its other city guides. The editorial voice is local to Dallas. The sites themselves are built and maintained by WebIgniter, our in-house web studio.