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Assistants · Brussels cafes and bars, BE · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Brussels 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 Fever (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 Fever, 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, Fever most often.

Updated 2026-11-03. The Brussels 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 guides1354%2 17%11 92%
coffeeroasterlist.comother site28%02 17%
laptopfriendlycafe.comdirectory28%02 17%
52martinis.comother site14%01 8%
archiduc.comother site14%01 8%
autonomia.orgother site14%01 8%
auvertbrunch.comother site14%01 8%
beeradvocate.comdirectory14%01 8%
brewver.comdirectory14%01 8%
brusselskitchen.comother site14%01 8%
bytenook.comother site14%1 8%0
casalouisebrussels.comother site14%01 8%
Facebookdirectory14%01 8%
fanzo.comdirectory14%01 8%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in Brussels cafes and bars

ChatGPT: answered by gpt-6-luna (12).

Gemini: answered by gemini-2.5-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
ChatGPT93%0%3%3%30
Gemini89%0%0%11%36
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.KAGE own site
Crema and More own site
The Unusual own site
Kawa Club no link
Café Tiera no link
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Plumette own site
ökēn own site
Under The Stairs own site
Plumette own site
Scène Bar Brussels own site
Vertigo own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Wide Awake Coffee own site
MOK Coffee Brussels own site
Cup28 own site
Aksum Coffee House own site
Wide Awake Coffee own site
Fika own site
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?The Black Sheep own site
DownTown Brussels own site
The Big Game own site
OReillys Irish Pub own site
DownTown Brussels own site
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?Albert own site
Nöje Coffee own site
Café des Voyageurs own site
Cafe Des Voyageurs own site
Crème own site
Casa Louise Bistro Gourmet own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.Sounds own siteThe Music Village own site
Sounds Jazz Club own site
LArchiduc own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?Bigg Cake own site
Café Boudin own site
Café de la Presse own site
Wittamer own site
Aksum Coffee House own site
Boulangerie Charli own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.Rooftop O’Bar own site
Soko Rooftop own site
Perché Rooftop own site
Secret Rooftop by Warwick own site
Soko Rooftop no link
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.Le Roy d’Espagne own site
La Pièce own site
Cappuccino Brussel Centre own site
Au Vert own site
The Unusual own site
Frank own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Plumette own site
Déjà Vu Bar own site
Plumette own site
Life Is Beautiful own site
Poechenellekelder own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?Python directory
Poechenellekelder own site
Moeder Lambic Fontainas own site
Nüetnigenough own site
Poechenellekelder own site
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.Chez Cubitus XL own site
La Luck own site
Le Bar à Jeux own site
Chez Cubitus no link
Kings & Queens Café own site
La Luck own site
Le Bar à Jeux no link
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 2026-11-03. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.