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Assistants · Cologne cafes and bars, DE · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Cologne cafes and bars

24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-19, 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 0% link a marketplace.

100%

of answers link the business's own site or its booking software

0%

link a marketplace

–

no marketplace linked

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 0% a marketplace.

Updated 2026-10-20. The Cologne 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 guides1042%010 83%
rausgegangen.deother site417%04 33%
colognecitybreaks.comother site313%03 25%
koeln.deother site313%03 25%
mitvergnuegen.comother site28%02 17%
worldcoffeemap.comother site28%02 17%
25hours-hotels.comother site14%01 8%
bierlager-koeln.deother site14%01 8%
brian-coffee-spot.comother site14%01 8%
brooklynof.comother site14%01 8%
coffeecircle.comother site14%01 8%
coffeelab-koln.deother site14%1 8%0
cupsy.coother site14%1 8%0
eventescapes.comother site14%01 8%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in Cologne cafes and bars

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%32
Gemini84%0%0%16%43
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-19. 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.Café Goldjunge own site
Café Lento own site
Das Café Köln own site
URBAN LOFT Cologne own site
THE COFFICE own site
Hommage no link
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Woods Cocktailbar own site
Soul Bar own site
Barney own site
ONA MOR own site
Suderman Bar own site
Toddy Tapper own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Coffee Lab Cologne own site
TWO AND A HALF own site
FUNKHAUS Café • Bar • Restaurant own site
ERNST Kaffeeröster own site
THE COFFEE GANG own site
Kaffeesaurus own site
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?Barney Vallely’s Irish Pub own site
Joe Champs Deutz own site
Brauhaus Zum Prinzen own site
Joe Champs own site
Gaffel am Dom own site
Barney Vallely’s Irish Pub own site
Gottes Grüne Wiese no link
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?Impact Café own site
Hard Rock Cafe Köln own site
Piccola own site
ST. LOUIS Breakfast own site
Wilma Wunder Köln own site
Restaurant Noa own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.Papa Joe’s Jazzlokal „Em Streckstrump own siteStadtgarten own site
Papa Joe’s Klimperkasten own site
King Georg own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?Café Goldjunge own site
Café Sehnsucht own site
Café PAUSE own site
TörtchenTörtchen own site
Café Reichard own site
Café Fassbender no link
Café Jansen by Fassbender own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.SAVOY Sky Lounge own site
Restaurant Bellevue, Maritim Hotel Köln own site
Bar Botanik, Wasserturm Hotel own site
Bar Botanik no link
Vibe & Views own site
Sky Lounge at SAVOY Hotel Köln own site
Monkey Bar Cologne own site
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.CARLS Café & Tagesbar own site
Café im Bauturm own site
Augustin own site
Bastians no link
Breakfast details no link
Website & Booking/Inquiries own site
The Coffee Gang own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?KARL’S Weinbar no link
Tisch reservieren own site
Saudade own site
Die Bredouille own site
Suderman Bar own site
Toddy Tapper own site
Seiberts Classic Bar & Liquid Kitchen own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?Bierlager own site
Craftbeer Corner Coeln own site
Braustelle own site
For a casual drink no link
Craftbeer Corner Coeln own site
Braustelle own site
Bierlager own site
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.Bingo Club Brettspielcafé own siteBingo Club own site
Shenanigans own site
Lost Level 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 2026-10-20. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.