In search of a new favorite Italian restaurant? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the most excellent sources for Italian cuisine around Dallas, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to make your lasagna or ravioli dreams come true.

Fall is the top season of the year for consumer spending at restaurants across the Dallas area, according to data on local business transactions from Womply, a provider of reputation management services and business analytics for small businesses. The average amount spent per customer transaction at Dallas-area restaurants grew to $26 for the metro area in the fall of last year, which remains consistent with the rest of the year.