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Recommended by assistants · Austin, US · October 2026

A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today.

What ChatGPT and Gemini answered when asked this in Austin on 2026-10-15, with web search on: the places named, who named them, and the direct link where the place has one.

PlaceNamed byDirect link
Bouldin Creek CafeChatGPT with its own site
Gemini by name
bouldincreekcafe.com
Flower ChildChatGPT with its own siteiamaflowerchild.com · order direct
True Food KitchenChatGPT with its own sitetruefoodkitchen.com
Method

How this is read

Each assistant was asked once per question, with web search on, for up to three places and the link to each one's own website. Names are read from the answer and matched against the index; links between a name and the next are that place's. "With its own site" means the assistant linked the place's own website; "through a marketplace" or "a directory" that it linked a listing instead; "by name" that it gave no link. The direct links come from the Direct Index scan of the place's site, not from the assistant.

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