--- title: Dublin cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/dublin-cafes-bars/2026-10 --- [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 · Dublin cafes and bars, IE # Dublin cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 413 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 327 reachable. 36% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 50% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 98 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 413 sites scanned 36% turn an AI crawler away 50% book or order on their own domain 98 score A or B During October 2026 so far, 413 websites were scanned, with 327 reachable and 86 unreachable from our scanner. Across the reachable sites, 118 or 36% turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, while 7 block an AI crawler in robots.txt. For menus and price lists, 166 use an HTML page, 25 use a PDF, 12 display details on the page itself, 4 host them on another site, 1 uses an image, and 119 provide no menu or price list. Across all scanned sites, 163 or 50% of the reachable sites take a direct booking or order on their own domain, 141 take bookings or orders on the business's own site, 22 use a vendor on the business's own site, 8 rely only through a marketplace, 13 go through an unrecognised third party, 143 offer no booking or ordering path, and overall grades stand at 24 A, 74 B, 96 C, 60 D, and 159 F, with 98 or 24% earning an A or B together. 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. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/dublin-cafes-bars) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/dublin-cafes-bars/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/dublin-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/dublin-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026 Grades | F | 159 | | C | 96 | | B | 74 | | D | 60 | | A | 24 | Menu or price list | HTML page | 166 | | none | 119 | | PDF | 25 | | on the page | 12 | | elsewhere | 4 | | image | 1 | Direct booking or ordering | none | 143 | | own site | 141 | | vendor on own site | 22 | | third party | 13 | | marketplace | 8 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 118 | | Block one in robots.txt | 7 | | Unreachable from our scanner | 86 | Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 327 reachable sites. 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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