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Some personal news: We’re changing the way we rate restaurants.

Here’s why.

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Forty years ago, The Dallas Morning News ran its first restaurant review with a star rating. Since then, through eight chief critics and thousands of reviews, the five-star system has remained pretty much the same.

But dining in Dallas has changed and shifted, particularly in the past decade.

So, we went back to the drawing board to create a new star rating system. Our goal: to create a system that reflects what we are looking for in a restaurant today, not the trappings of bygone eras.

We’re dropping a star. @MichaleneB's reviews, starting with the first one next week, will be rated with the following scale:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Extraordinary
⭐️⭐️⭐️: Excellent
⭐️⭐️: Very Good
⭐️: Good
No stars: Poor

Ratings will also reflect aspects like parking and noise levels, things that you, the readers, said you cared about.

Are you ready to dig in, Dallas?

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