--- title: Amsterdam cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/amsterdam-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Amsterdam cafes and bars, NL # Amsterdam cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 580 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 435 reachable. 35% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 37% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 108 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 580 sites scanned 35% turn an AI crawler away 37% book or order on their own domain 108 score A or B Our scan covered 669 websites of cafes and bars in Amsterdam, with 507 reachable and 162 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at the scores, 40 sites received an A, 91 received a B, 135 received a C, 124 received a D, and 279 received an F, meaning A or B together account for 131 sites, which is 20% of the scanned sites. For customer access, 186 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, representing 37% of the reachable sites, while 171 offer booking or ordering direct on the business's own site, 15 use a vendor on the business's own site, 14 operate only through a marketplace, 17 go through an unrecognised third party, and 290 have no booking or ordering path. Regarding content and technical settings, 205 sites provide a menu or price list as an HTML page, 42 as a PDF, 18 on the page itself, 5 on another site, 4 as an image, and 233 have no menu or price list, while 175 reachable sites turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 35% of the reachable sites, and 8 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Voor oktober 2026 zijn er 669 websites van cafes and bars gescand, waarvan er 507 bereikbaar waren en 162 onbereikbaar voor onze scanner. Van de bereikbare sites weren 175 sites, wat neerkomt op 35% van de bereikbare sites, ten minste één AI crawler aan de rand, terwijl 8 sites een AI crawler blokkeren in robots.txt. Een bezoeker kan direct reserveren of bestellen op het eigen domein bij 186 sites, wat 37% van de bereikbare sites is, terwijl een owner van 171 sites dit op de business zijn eigen site aanbiedt, 14 dit enkel via een marketplace doen, 15 via een vendor op de business zijn eigen site werken, 17 via een niet herkende derde partij gaan en 290 sites geen pad voor reserveren of bestellen hebben. Wat betreft de resultaten kregen de sites 40 keer A, 91 keer B, 135 keer C, 124 keer D en 279 keer F, waarbij A of B samen goed zijn voor 131 sites, oftewel 20% van de gescand sites. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-14; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/amsterdam-cafes-bars) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/amsterdam-cafes-bars/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/amsterdam-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/amsterdam-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026 Grades | F | 248 | | C | 114 | | D | 110 | | B | 71 | | A | 37 | Menu or price list | none | 202 | | HTML page | 175 | | PDF | 35 | | on the page | 15 | | elsewhere | 4 | | image | 4 | Direct booking or ordering | none | 250 | | own site | 142 | | vendor on own site | 17 | | third party | 14 | | marketplace | 12 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 151 | | Block one in robots.txt | 4 | | Unreachable from our scanner | 145 | Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 435 reachable sites. Method ## How this page is made Every business of the index's kind with a website of its own is scanned the same way, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page takes the latest scan of each site before October 2026 ended, so a site fixed in the following month shows up in the following month's page, not here. A past month does not change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question before the month ended. 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