The Direct Index
Recommended by assistants · Chicago, US · October 2026

A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today.

What ChatGPT and Gemini answered when asked this in Chicago on 2026-10-15, with web search on: the places named, who named them, and the direct link where the place has one.

PlaceNamed byDirect link
Beatrix River NorthChatGPT with its own sitebeatrixrestaurants.com
Brightwok KitchenGemini with its own sitebrightwok.com
CafecitoGemini with its own sitecafecitochicago.com
Plant Junkie
not in the index
Gemini with its own siteurbanspacethree.com
PLANTA QueenChatGPT with its own siteplantarestaurants.com
Seville
not in the index
ChatGPT with its own sitesevillechicago.com
Method

How this is read

Each assistant was asked once per question, with web search on, for up to three places and the link to each one's own website. Names are read from the answer and matched against the index; links between a name and the next are that place's. "With its own site" means the assistant linked the place's own website; "through a marketplace" or "a directory" that it linked a listing instead; "by name" that it gave no link. The direct links come from the Direct Index scan of the place's site, not from the assistant.

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