Bristol cafes and bars in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?
145 cafe and bar and pub websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 135 of them could be read. 13% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 47% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 49 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month.
sites scanned
turn an AI crawler away
book or order on their own domain
score A or B
Across the 145 cafe and bar websites scanned, 135 were reachable and 10 were unreachable from our scanner. In the evaluations, 11 received an A grade, 38 received a B, 36 earned a C, 25 got a D, and 35 were graded F, meaning 49 sites or 34% scored an A or B together. Looking at features, 55 sites show a menu or price list as an HTML page, 11 offer it as a PDF, 2 host it on another site, 1 shares it as an image, and 66 have no menu or price list. For bookings or orders, 63 sites or 47% of the reachable total take them on their own domain, with 56 direct on the business's own site, 7 through a vendor on the business's own site, 4 only through a marketplace, 1 through an unrecognised third party, and 67 offering no path at all.
Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-11-02; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.
The live index · November 2026 → · what changed · JSON · Markdown
How the sites stood at the end of October 2026
| B | 38 |
| C | 36 |
| F | 35 |
| D | 25 |
| A | 11 |
| none | 66 |
| HTML page | 55 |
| 11 | |
| elsewhere | 2 |
| image | 1 |
| none | 67 |
| own site | 56 |
| vendor on own site | 7 |
| marketplace | 4 |
| third party | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 19 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 0 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 10 |
Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 135 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 145 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.
How this page is made
Every business of this kind that has its own website gets the same scan, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page uses each site's latest scan from before the end of October 2026. A site fixed the month after shows up on the next month's page. A past month doesn't change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question from before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.