--- title: Brussels cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/brussels-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Brussels cafes and bars, BE # Brussels cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 311 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 240 reachable. 18% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 47% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 78 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 311 sites scanned 18% turn an AI crawler away 47% book or order on their own domain 78 score A or B For October 2026 so far, the report scanned 311 websites of cafes and bars, with 240 reachable and 71 unreachable from our scanner. Across all scanned sites, 22 earned an A, 56 a B, 70 a C, 51 a D, and 112 an F, meaning 78 sites or 25% received an A or B together. Looking at the 240 reachable sites, 44 or 18% turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, while 5 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Regarding customer actions, 112 sites or 47% of the reachable sites take direct bookings or orders on their own domain, with 107 handling this on the business's own site, 5 through a vendor on the business's own site, 4 only through a marketplace, 12 through an unrecognised third party, and 112 offering no booking or ordering path. Pour le mois en cours, 311 sites de cafés et bars ont été analysés, parmi lesquels 240 étaient accessibles et 71 inaccessibles pour notre robot. Concernant l'accès accordé par chaque owner, 44 sites accessibles, soit 18% d'entre eux, bloquent au moins un robot d'intelligence artificielle au niveau du réseau, tandis que 5 sites en bloquent un dans leur fichier robots.txt. Pour le menu ou la liste des prix, 110 sites proposent une page HTML, 99 n'en affichent aucun, 16 utilisent un PDF, 9 l'intègrent directement sur la page, 5 renvoient vers un autre site et 1 l'affiche sous forme d'image. Enfin, les options pour réserver ou commander montrent que 112 sites ne proposent aucun parcours, 107 permettent une démarche direct sur le site du business, 12 passent par un tiers non reconnu, 5 utilisent un prestataire sur le site du business et 4 fonctionnent uniquement via une marketplace. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-16; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. 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Method ## How this page is made Every business of the index's kind with a website of its own is scanned the same way, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page takes the latest scan of each site before October 2026 ended, so a site fixed in the following month shows up in the following month's page, not here. A past month does not change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question before the month ended. 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