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Assistants · Basel cafes and bars, CH · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Basel cafes and bars

24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked between 2026-10-19 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 8% link a marketplace, most often lhw.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

8%

link a marketplace

8%

link lhw.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 8% a marketplace, lhw.com most often.

Updated 2026-11-02. The Basel 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 guides1667%4 33%12 100%
interestingbars.comdirectory28%02 17%
lhw.commarketplace28%02 17%
mapstr.comdirectory28%02 17%
purpose-economy.orgother site
An organization promoting steward-ownership and alternative economic structures.
28%02 17%
barstalker.deother site14%01 8%
basel-restaurants.chdirectory14%01 8%
beany.appvendor, direct14%01 8%
eventlocations.comdirectory14%01 8%
foodherogroup.chother site14%01 8%
Instagramdirectory14%01 8%
laptopfriendly.codirectory14%01 8%
oelist.chother site14%01 8%
ranq.chother site14%01 8%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in Basel 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
ChatGPT94%0%0%6%33
Gemini100%0%0%0%35
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.MOMENT own site
Kaffeehaus Mitte own site
Unternehmen Mitte own site
MOMENT - das stille Tee-Café own site
Finkmüller own site
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Bücheli Caffè Bar Lounge own site
Nomad Bar own site
Bücheli no link
WERK 8 own site
Bar Rouge own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Café frühling own site
BRÜ₂ own site
Bean in Progress own site
Café Frühling own site
Bean in Progress own site
BRÜ Specialty Coffee own site
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?Getafe own site
Nordtangente Sportsbar own site
Johanniter Café-Bar own site
Didi Offensiv own site
Paddy Reillys Irish Pub & Restaurant own site
Didi Offensiv own site
Mr. Pickwick Pub Basel own site
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?Bohemia at Hotel Märthof own site
Lunch own site
Kaffeehaus Mitte own site
BRÜ₁ own site
Unternehmen Mitte own site
Chez Jeannot own site
La Manufacture own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.BARAKUBA Bar & Bühne own siteAtlantis Basel own site
The Bird’s Eye Jazz Club own site
Bar Les Trois Rois own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?Cream Cakery own site
Confiserie Beschle own site
Unternehmen Mitte own site
Café frühling own site
Bäckerei KULT own site
Finkmüller own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.Bar Rouge own site
ART HOUSE Basel Rooftop own site
Bar Rouge own site
ART HOUSE Rooftop Bar & Lounge own site
NOOHN own site
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.Unternehmen Mitte own site
Stadthauscafé own site
unternehmen mitte own site
Bäckerei KULT own site
Brasserie Les Trois Rois own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?FOR ART Café Bar own site
Pot Still Bar own site
Café Bar Pförtnerhaus own site
Bar Les Trois Rois own site
Angels Share Cocktailbar own site
Consum Wine Bar own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?Matt & Elly Brewery & Kitchen own site
Ueli-Brau-Bar own site
Also closed Mondays no link
Bierrevier own site
Volta Bräu own site
Restaurant Fischerstube own site
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.ManaBar own site
Hyve Bar & Café own site
Escape Bar own site
ManaBar own site
Escape Bar own site
Unternehmen Mitte 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 2026-11-02. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.