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Assistants · Amsterdam cafes and bars, NL · November 2026

Where assistants send people in Amsterdam cafes and bars

24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-11-02, to the questions people ask and to questions about the top businesses in the index. 100% of them link a business's own site or its booking software, and 4% link a marketplace, most often TheFork (4%).

Fewer than 30 answers, so this share is not compared with other cities.

100%

of answers link the business's own site or its booking software

4%

link a marketplace

4%

link TheFork, the marketplace named most

24

answers, 24 to the questions people ask and 0 about businesses

Of the 24 answers to the questions people ask, 100% link a business's own site or its booking software and 4% a marketplace, TheFork most often.

Updated 2026-11-03. The Amsterdam cafes and bars index · Places named, question by question · Markdown · JSON · Share image · All cities.

League table

The destinations, most linked first

Each row is a place an answer can send people. Share is the percentage of all 24 answers that link to it. Each assistant's column counts only that assistant's answers.

DestinationKindAnswersShareChatGPTGemini
The businesses' own sitesown site24100%12 100%12 100%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides1042%1 8%9 75%
amsterdamlocalgems.comother site313%03 25%
amsterdam-spirit.comother site28%02 17%
beeradvocate.comdirectory14%01 8%
besthotelbar.comother site14%01 8%
brewatlas.codirectory14%01 8%
bunq.comother site14%01 8%
cafe1981.nlother site14%1 8%0
comedywalks.comother site14%01 8%
debalie.nlother site14%1 8%0
dignita-restaurant.comother site14%01 8%
first-class.comother site14%01 8%
Google Mapsdirectory14%01 8%
incredibleamsterdam.comother site14%01 8%

12 more destinations with fewer answers each are in the JSON.

By assistant

What each assistant does in Amsterdam cafes and bars

ChatGPT: answered by gpt-6-luna (12).

Gemini: answered by gemini-2.5-flash (12).

Places named when people ask

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places and a link to book or order with each one directly. The table shows how many of the places it named came with a link to the place's own site, to a marketplace or to a directory, or with no link at all.

AssistantOwn site or directMarketplaceDirectoryNo linkPlaces
ChatGPT97%0%0%3%34
Gemini91%0%0%9%35
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-11-02. A place in this index links to its report. A place with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. "No link" means the assistant named the place but didn't link its site. Each question links to the full list of places named.

QuestionChatGPTGemini
A quiet cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning.nothing namedDe Koffieschenkerij own site
Bocca Coffee own site
The Hoxton, Amsterdam own site
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Dutch Courage own site
Pulitzer’s Bar own site
Bar Mokum own site
Pulitzers Bar own site
Door 74 own site
Flying Dutchmen Cocktails own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Espresso Love own site
Friedhats FUKU Café own site
Sango Specialty Coffee own site
Cafecito own site
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?Belushi’s Amsterdam own site
Heineken Hoek own site
Lion’s Head own site
Cocos Outback own site
Belushis own site
Satellite Sports Cafe own site
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?Lunchroom Amarylles own site
Corner Bakery own site
Cotidiano Amsterdam own site
Staring at Jacob own site
Dignita own site
Moods Coffee & Brunch own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.Pianobar Maxim own site
Mulligan’s Irish Music Bar no link
Job Alone & Friends own site
Pompstation own site
The Waterhole own site
Café de Knoop own site
Jazz Café Alto own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?De Koffieschenkerij own site
Rose & Vanilla own site
Sainte Madeleine own site
Winkel 43 own site
Bakers & Roasters own site
Pompadour own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.LuminAir own site
Madam own site
Zoku Amsterdam own site
LuminAir own site
W Lounge own site
CIMA Rooftop Bar own site
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.Brown Café ’t Centrum own site
Sophie’s Coffee and Cakes own site
Omelegg - City Centre no link
Opening Hours own site
Mortimer own site
Greenwoods Amsterdam Singel own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Clos Amsterdam own site
Pulitzer’s Bar own site
Café Nieuw Amsterdam own site
Door 74 own site
Pulitzers Bar own site
SUPPER Intimate own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?BeerTemple own site
Walk in; no reservations own site
Proeflokaal Arendsnest own site
In de Wildeman own site
Proeflokaal Arendsnest own site
In De Wildeman own site
Café Gollem no link
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.Café Genootschap der Geneugten own site
House of Watt own site
Café Bosco own site
Side Quest Bar own site
Armoury Bar no link
House of Watt own site
Method

How this is counted

Everything here is counted in answers, using the latest answer from each assistant to each question, asked with web search on. Some questions are the ones people ask ("best pizza delivered right now", "book me a table for Saturday"). The others are three questions about each of the top-ranked businesses in the index: the official website, where to book and where to order. Every link in an answer is read. A destination counts once for each answer that links to it, whether as the place to book or as a source the assistant cited. So each share is the share of answers that link that destination, and the shares don't add up to 100%.

All the businesses' own sites share one row, whatever the business. A booking or ordering vendor on the business's own domain counts as direct. Marketplaces and directories are named. Listing, review and map sites (Tripadvisor, Google Maps, Yelp) count as directories, even where the scanner files them with the marketplaces. Newspapers, magazines, guides, forums and tourism sites share one row. Anything left is listed by its registered domain, and a model sorts each of those unknown hosts once into directory, press, marketplace, vendor, business or other, with the reason shown. Text that only looks like a host because a space is missing ("them.here") is dropped. Business names are matched against the index. A place that isn't in the index links to a scan of its site, if the assistant gave one.

Updated 2026-11-03. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.