--- title: Antwerp cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/antwerp-cafes-bars/2026-10 --- [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 · Antwerp cafes and bars, BE # Antwerp cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 235 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 161 reachable. 17% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 32% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 33 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 235 sites scanned 17% turn an AI crawler away 32% book or order on their own domain 33 score A or B For October 2026 so far, 235 cafes and bars websites were scanned, with 161 reachable and 74 unreachable from our scanner. Across all scanned sites, the grades are A 10, B 23, C 44, D 34, and F 124, with A or B together at 33, which is 14% of the scanned sites. Among the reachable sites, 28 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 17% of the reachable sites, while 3 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Regarding direct options, 51 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 32% of the reachable sites, while the specific booking or ordering paths show on the business's own site 49, through a vendor on the business's own site 2, through an unrecognised third party 7, and no booking or ordering path 103. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-16; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/antwerp-cafes-bars) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/antwerp-cafes-bars/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/antwerp-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/antwerp-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026 Grades | F | 124 | | C | 44 | | D | 34 | | B | 23 | | A | 10 | Menu or price list | none | 87 | | HTML page | 55 | | PDF | 10 | | on the page | 7 | | elsewhere | 2 | Direct booking or ordering | none | 103 | | own site | 49 | | third party | 7 | | vendor on own site | 2 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 28 | | Block one in robots.txt | 3 | | Unreachable from our scanner | 74 | Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 161 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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