  We study the interplay of flavor and dark matter phenomenology for models of
flavored dark matter interacting with quarks. We allow an arbitrary flavor
structure in the coupling of dark matter with quarks. This coupling is assumed
to be the only new source of violation of the Standard Model flavor symmetry
extended by a $U(3)_\chi$ associated with the dark matter. We call this ansatz
Dark Minimal Flavor Violation (DMFV) and highlight its various implications,
including an unbroken discrete symmetry that can stabilize the dark matter. As
an illustration we study a Dirac fermionic dark matter $\chi$ which transforms
as triplet under $U(3)_\chi$, and is a singlet under the Standard Model. The
dark matter couples to right-handed down-type quarks via a colored scalar
mediator $\phi$ with a coupling $\lambda$. We identify a number of
"flavor-safe" scenarios for the structure of $\lambda$ which are beyond Minimal
Flavor Violation. For dark matter and collider phenomenology we focus on the
well-motivated case of $b$-flavored dark matter. The combined flavor and dark
matter constraints on the parameter space of $\lambda$ turn out to be
interesting intersections of the individual ones. LHC constraints on simplified
models of squarks and sbottoms can be adapted to our case, and monojet searches
can be relevant if the spectrum is compressed.
