Ranked shortlist · 10 of 773 bars

Best bars in Dallas

The 10 most notable bars in Dallas, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Stan's Blue Note

    2908 Greenville Ave

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.293, percentile 100 of 773

  2. 2

    Pekers Bar

    2615 Oak Lawn Ave

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.292, percentile 99.87 of 773

  3. 3

    Armoury D.E.

    2714 Elm St

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.292, percentile 99.74 of 773

  4. 4

    Lee Harvey's

    1807 Gould St

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.292, percentile 99.61 of 773

  5. 5

    Club Los Rieles

    4930 Military Pkwy

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.288, percentile 99.48 of 773

  6. 6

    The Dive on 75

    215 N Central Expy

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.281, percentile 99.35 of 773

  7. 7

    Crú Food & Wine Bar (west Village)

    3699 Mckinney Ave Ste 107

    listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.281, percentile 99.22 of 773

  8. 8

    Sherlock's Baker St. Pub & Grill

    5100 Belt Line Rd

    listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.281, percentile 99.09 of 773

  9. 9

    Vee Hookah Lounge

    717 S Greenville Ave #110

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.280, percentile 98.96 of 773

  10. 10

    Last Point Sports Grill

    4578 Belt Line Rd

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.274, percentile 98.83 of 773

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent calibration: 533 Michelin-starred restaurants in the catalogue were checked against their own group. It is the only designation that covers more than one place, so the ranking is corroborated for restaurants and uncorroborated elsewhere — the manifest says so per run. The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).