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Assistants · Bologna cafes and bars, IT · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Bologna cafes and bars

24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-23, 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 4% link a marketplace, most often TheFork (4%).

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

4%

link a marketplace

4%

link TheFork, 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 4% a marketplace, TheFork most often.

Updated 2026-11-08. The Bologna 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%2 17%10 83%
happycow.netdirectory313%03 25%
amo.bo.itother site28%02 17%
bolognacraftbeer.itother site28%1 8%1 8%
caffeterzi.shopother site28%02 17%
culturabologna.itother site28%02 17%
curiousspoon.appvendor, direct28%02 17%
gourmettoria.itother site28%02 17%
Linktreedirectory28%02 17%
wcon.ioother site
Tech and developer domain not recognizable as a consumer or local business host.
28%02 17%
anyplans.inother site14%01 8%
baakbologna.itother site14%1 8%0
beer52.comother site14%01 8%
biografilm.itother site14%01 8%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in Bologna 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%31
Gemini88%0%0%13%32
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-23. 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.BURŌ Café own site
Café de la Paix own site
Camera a Sud own site
BURŌ Cafè no link
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Velluto own site
Camera con Vista own site
Vistatorri own site
Camera con Vista own site
Jimmy Cocktail Lab & Food own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Allegra own site
BURŌ Café own site
MOOD24 own site
Caffè Terzi own site
Allegra own site
Aroma Specialty Coffees own site
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?Empire Bologna own site
Re Artù own site
Osteria dell’Orsa Fuori Porta own site
Empire Bologna own site
Cluricaune Irish Pub own site
Celtic Druid Irish Pub no link
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?RUI own site
Le Radici Bistrot own site
ZOO Open Taste own site
Allegra own site
Lampadina own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.Bravo Caffè own site
Camera Jazz & Music Club own site
Bravo Caffè own site
Cantina Bentivoglio own site
Camera Jazz & Music Club own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?Antica Bologna own site
BURŌ Café own site
Caffè Zanarini own site
Cafè Pasticceria Gamberini own site
Caffè Terzi own site
Pasticceria Regina di Quadri own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.Hotel Metropolitan Roof Garden own site
Terrazza Mattuiani own site
Terrazza Mattuiani own site
Roof Garden at Hotel Metropolitan own site
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.Pappare’ Bologna own site
Pasticceria Impero own site
Cafè Pasticceria Gamberini own site
Caffè Terzi own site
Naama Cafè no link
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Sette Tavoli no link
Casa Azzoguidi own site
Bononia Club own site
Camera con Vista own site
Camera a Sud no link
Le Stanze own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?Il Punto Pub own site
L’Ortica own site
Vecchia Orsa Moline own site
Il Punto Pub own site
Birreria Popolare own site
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.Monkey Factory own site
Ostello Bello Bologna Bar own site
Bologna Nerd own site
Mana Brew Pub own site
Bar Ostello Bello Bologna own site
Monkey Factory 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 2026-11-08. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.