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Assistants · Austin cafes and bars, US · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Austin cafes and bars

24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked between 2026-10-18 and 2026-10-22, 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 21% link a marketplace, most often hirespace.com (8%).

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

21%

link a marketplace

8%

link hirespace.com, 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 21% a marketplace, hirespace.com most often.

Updated 2026-11-03. The Austin 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 guides1250%012 100%
brewatlas.codirectory313%03 25%
waitlistwizard.comvendor, direct313%03 25%
hirespace.commarketplace28%02 17%
joe.coffeemarketplace28%02 17%
restaurent.commarketplace
An online platform for discovering and booking event spaces and private dining rooms.
28%02 17%
Toastvendor, direct28%02 17%
vividseats.commarketplace28%02 17%
24diner.comother site14%01 8%
6street.comdirectory14%01 8%
bigworldsmallgirl.comother site14%01 8%
boardgamecafes.directorydirectory14%01 8%
cash.appvendor, direct14%01 8%
curiousspoon.appvendor, direct14%01 8%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in Austin cafes and bars

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

Gemini: answered by gemini-3.8-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%32
Gemini100%0%0%0%34
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-22. 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.Codependent Coffee + Cocktails own site
Café Crème Downtown own site
Codependent Cocktails + Coffee own site
Merit Coffee Co. own site
Halcyon own site
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.The Roosevelt Room own site
Casa Bianca own site
Buenos Aires Café own site
Midnight Cowboy own site
Here Nor There own site
Kinfolk Lounge & Library own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Bennu Coffee own siteProud Mary Coffee own site
Fleet Coffee own site
Houndstooth Coffee own site
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?American football no link
The Sideline own site
Revelry Kitchen + Bar own site
The Pub own site
Austin Sports Club own site
The Tavern own site
Haymaker own site
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?Colleen’s Kitchen own site
El Chile own site
Qi Austin own site
Café No Sé own site
Launderette own site
Joanns Fine Foods own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.Shore Raw Bar & Grill own site
Revelry Kitchen + Bar own site
Las Palomas Restaurant & Bar own site
Geraldines own site
Lamberts Downtown Barbecue own site
Bangers Sausage House & Beer Garden own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?Russell’s Bakery & Coffee Bar own site
SugarWolf own site
Mozart’s Coffee Roasters own site
Upper Crust Bakery own site
Swedish Hill own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.Edge Rooftop own site
Zanzibar own site
Nido own site
Edge Rooftop Bar own site
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.Patika own site
SugarWolf own site
Café Crème own site
Phoebes Diner own site
Halcyon own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?The Roosevelt Room own site
Blue Room own site
Trevi Cafe & Wine Bar own site
Milonga Room own site
Here Nor There own site
Small Victory own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?Central Machine Works own site
Lazarus Brewing Company own site
Zilker Brewing Co own site
Bangers Sausage House & Beer Garden own site
The ABGB own site
Lazarus Brewing Co own site
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.Café Crème Downtown own site
Vigilante Gastropub & Games own site
Emerald Tavern Games & Cafe own site
Vigilante Gastropub & Games own site
Emerald Tavern Games & Cafe own site
Buzz Mill 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.