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Beirut cafes and bars: which businesses can AI agents use?

Every cafe, bar and pub business in Beirut that has its own website gets the same scan. So far 71 of 83 distinct websites have been scanned.

82 businesses on a map, by grade: 8 A or B, 33 C or D, 41 F
82 of 82 scannedA or B 8C or D 33F 41the map page
690

businesses in OpenStreetMap

83

distinct business websites (a chain's site counts once)

23%

of scanned sites turn an AI crawler away at the edge

8

score A or B so far

A 2 · B 6 · C 15 · D 18 · F 30

A score stays provisional until its site has had the action test and the citation check. Methodology · Markdown · JSON.

Leaderboard

Ranked by Agent-Direct Score

If one of these is yours, open its page to rescan or claim it. 15 places you can book or order from directly →

#BusinessScoreMenuDirect channelAI crawlers
1Starbucks
starbucks.com.lb
A 95.4%HTML pageown siteopen
2Favela Beirut
favelabeirut.com
A 86.2%HTML pageown siteopen
3Replay Karaoke
thrubits.com
B 84.6%HTML pageown siteopen
4الفلمنكي
alfalamanki.com
B 80%HTML pagenoneopen
5Bliss Hall
blisshallcafe.com
B 73.8%noneown siteopen
6Kalei
kaleicoffee.com · regional, coffee_shop
B 73.8%noneown siteopen
7House of EL&N
elnlondon.com
B 72.3%HTML pageown siteopen
8Carte Blanche Printing & Packaging company
cbcarteblanche.com
B 70.8%HTML pagenoneopen
9Espresso Lab
espressolab.com
C 67.7%HTML pagenoneopen
10Caribou Coffee
cariboucoffee.com
C 67.5%HTML pageown siteopen
11ستاربكس
starbucks.com · coffee_shop
C 67.5%HTML pageown siteopen
12Antika Bar
antikabar.com
C 66.2%HTML pagevendor on own siteopen
13Cafe Younes
cafeyounes.com
C 66.2%HTML pagenoneopen
14Sunset Bar
sportingclub.com
C 64.6%nonenoneopen
15Latte Art
latteartlb.com · coffee, tea
C 61.5%HTML pagenoneopen
16Living Room Beirut
livingroombeirut.com
C 61.5%HTML pagenoneopen
17The Blue House
bluehousetea.com
C 61.5%noneown siteopen
18Hemingway's Bar & Lounge
accor.com
C 60%noneown siteopen
19Kissproof
kissproofbeirut.com
C 59.4%HTML pagenoneblocked
20Propaganda Gin Room
caramelboutiquehotel.com
C 56.9%noneown siteopen
21Café Diem
cafediem.fr
C 55.4%HTML pagenoneblocked
22Trainstation Mar Mikhaël
cincinservices.com
C 55.4%nonenoneopen
23Whisky Mist
phoeniciabeirut.com
C 55.4%nonenoneopen
24Uncle Deek
magic-children.com
D 51.8%noneown siteblocked
25ستاربكس
starbucks.co.uk
D 51.3%noneown siteopen
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#BusinessScoreMenuDirect channelAI crawlers
26Cigar House Lebanon
cigarhouselb.com
D 50.8%nonenoneopen
27Lyrics lounge bar
gialacucinadamore.com
D 50.8%nonenoneopen
28Brimm
sirantowers.com · coffee_shop
D 49.2%PDFnoneopen
29Dunkin' Beirut Souks
ddlebanon.com
D 49.2%HTML pagenoneopen
30Foolsbar
threeonine.com
D 49.2%nonethird partyopen
31Kohi Coffee Company
kohi.co
D 47.7%nonenoneopen
32Iris Beach Club
intoweb.me
D 46.2%HTML pagenoneopen
33Lowcal the diet clinic
lowcal-thedietclinic.com
D 45.5%noneown siteblocked
34Hawari Juice
beirutmenu.com
D 44.2%HTML pagenoneblocked
35B.Hive
thebhive.io
D 43.1%nonenoneopen
36Cappuccino
cappuccino.com
D 43.1%nonenoneopen
37Madhattan
mindsetgroup.me
D 43.1%nonenoneopen
38Nayla
nayla.co
D 41.5%nonenoneopen
39Nespresso Boutique
nespresso.com
D 40%nonenoneopen
40The blue lagoon البركة الزرقا
odoo.com
D 40%nonenoneblocked
41برزخ
brzkh.org
D 40%nonenoneopen
42Hona Beirut
marchlebanon.org
F 38.5%nonenoneopen
43Starbucks
alshaya.com
F 38.5%nonenoneopen
44The bohemian
tri-concepts.com
F 38.5%nonenoneopen
45Vertical33
vertical33.com
F 38.5%nonenoneopen
46Chafe.lb
chafelb.com
F 35.4%nonenoneopen
47Cyrano
cafecyrano.com
F 35.4%nonenoneopen
48Little Beirut
ltlbeirut.com
F 35.4%nonenoneopen
49Street 22 Cafe
tas.ink
F 35.4%nonenoneopen
50The Cabinet Liqour & Cigar
thecabinetbeirut.com
F 35.4%nonenoneopen
51Keif
keifrestaurant.com
F 33.8%nonenoneopen
52The Gathering Beirut
founddgroup.com
F 33.4%nonenoneblocked
53Bread Republic Bakery, Pizzeria and Wine Room
breadrepublic.com
F 30.8%nonenoneopen
54Ginette Beirut
ginettebeirut.com
F 30.8%nonenoneopen
55Hashtagrestocafe
hashtagrestocafe.com
F 30.8%nonenoneopen
56Petit Cafe
petit-group.com
F 30.8%nonenoneopen
57Vagabond
vagabondbeirut.com
F 30.8%nonenoneopen
58Backburner
thebackburner.com
F 27.7%HTML pagenoneblocked
59Canteen al madina
scangow.site
F 19.4%nonenoneblocked
60Al Mandaloun Café
almandaloun.com
F 15.4%nonenoneopen
61Backroom
bckrm.com
F 15.4%nonenoneblocked
62كتدي فليكس
candy-flakes.com · coffee_shop
F 1.5%imagenoneblocked
63Arabesque Lounge at Four Seasons Hotel Beirut
fourseasons.com
F 0%unreachablenoneblocked
64Barlivery
barlivery.com
F 0%unreachablenoneopen
65Botaniste
botaniste.online
F 0%unreachablenoneopen
66Casper & Gambini's
casperandgambinis.com
F 0%unreachablenoneblocked
67Fizz Beirut
fizzbeirut.com
F 0%unreachablenoneopen
68Joe and the Juice
joejuice.com · sandwich, coffee_shop, juice
F 0%unreachablenoneblocked
69L'Osteria Beirut
soundcloud.com
F 0%unreachablenoneblocked
70Sip
sip-cafe.com
F 0%nonenoneblocked
71Urbanista
weare-urbanista.com
F 0%unreachablenoneopen
What the sites say

How Beirut cafes and bars compares

No web address listed: 77% here, against a median of 53% across 138 indexes of cafes and bars. This is where the city stands out. It ranks 15 of 138.

Beirutmedianspread of comparable indexes
Presenceagainst 138 indexes of cafes and bars
No web address listed533 of 69077%15 of 138 · median 53%→
Only a social profile23 of 6903.3%52 of 138 · median 3.0%→
Own website120 of 69017%118 of 138 · median 41%→

Website facts come from 63 of the 71 scanned sites (89%). A row only shows once 300 pages and half of the scanned sites have been read, and four in five of the city's websites have been scanned. Every number, with its method and data →

Every count behind these rows
Menu or price list
none42
HTML page19
image1
PDF1
Direct booking or ordering
none47
own site14
third party1
vendor on own site1
Site builder
Unknown33
Wordpress21
Shopify4
Godaddy3
Bentobox1
Webflow1
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge16
Block one in robots.txt4
Turn away every visitor without a browser6
Didn't answer in time4
Unreachable from the scanner8
No working site (dead address)11

The menu, channel and builder counts cover the 63 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts cover all 71 scanned sites. Each uses the latest scan. The listings come from OpenStreetMap. Businesses without their own website are counted but not scanned. Another 11 have an address that no longer answers (dead domain, bad certificate or server down). They're counted with the businesses that have no website and left out of the ranking.

Assistants · November 2026

Where assistants send people in Beirut cafes and bars

Of 24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, 96% link a business's own site or its booking software and 8% link a marketplace, most often jetlygo.com. The five destinations linked most:

DestinationKindAnswersShare
The businesses' own sitesown site2396%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides1250%
madeinliban.comother site521%
dinestyapp.comvendor, direct417%
lebweb.comother site313%

The full league table, assistant by assistant → · The places named, question by question

What assistants recommend in Beirut cafes and bars

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

AssistantOwn site or directMarketplaceDirectoryNo linkPlaces
ChatGPT91%0%0%9%35
Gemini62%0%5%32%37

Asked on 2026-11-03. A place in this index links to its report, and one with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. When a cell says "no link", the assistant named the place but didn't link to its site. Across the 12 questions, the assistants named 58 different places. This index has 690 businesses. Question by question →

Month by month

Beirut cafes and bars, month by month

Each month gets its own dated page, and its numbers are final once the month is over. The table shows the share of sites that turn AI crawlers away, the share that take bookings or orders on their own domain, and how many score A or B.

MonthSites scannedTurn a crawler awayDirect booking or orderingA or B
November 2026 so far7123%24%8
October 2026825%14%1
Month by month

Beirut cafes and bars, month by month: the chart

Beirut cafes and bars, month by month0%50%100%Oct 26Nov 26Direct booking or ordering 24%Turn a crawler away 23%A or B 11% Beirut cafes and bars: Sites scanned050100Oct 26Nov 26Sites scanned 71

From October 2026 to November 2026, the share of sites turning a crawler away fell from 25% to 23%, the share taking bookings or orders on their own domain rose from 14% to 24%, and the number of sites scoring A or B went from 1 to 8 so far.

Kind

Beirut, by kind

Each kind of business has its own index, and every index gets the same scan. This page is the cafes and bars index.

KindBusinessesHas a websiteSites scannedGrades
restaurants and fast food1,067234157

A 4 · B 22 · C 9 · D 36 · F 86

cafes and bars
this page
69012071

A 2 · B 6 · C 15 · D 18 · F 30

hairdressers and beauty salons4728070

A 1 · B 2 · C 9 · D 20 · F 38

dentists, clinics and vets2988875

A 0 · B 9 · C 8 · D 22 · F 36

tours, attractions and museums1537870

A 0 · B 6 · C 15 · D 24 · F 25

37 of them are chain outlets. A chain's site is scanned once and counted once in the rankings.

Transactable

Can an agent transact in Beirut cafes and bars?

4 of 63 reachable sites expose a rail an agent could transact through: UCP profile 4. Measured, not scored.

A rail is a UCP profile, an ACP discovery document, an MCP server card, or an ordering vendor that takes orders placed by assistants (Square and Toast, and any vendor whose terms allow agents). Counted from the latest scan of each site; older scans were not measured. Methodology · vendor terms for agents.