The Direct Index
Recommended by assistants · Durban, ZA · October 2026

A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?

What ChatGPT and Gemini answered when asked this in Durban on 2026-10-22, with web search on. Below are the places named, who named each one, and the direct link where the place has one.

PlaceNamed byDirect link
Butcher Boys GrillGemini with its own sitebutcherboysgrill.co.za
Nguni Foods
not in the index
ChatGPT with its own sitengunifoods.co.za
Spiga
not in the index
ChatGPT with its own sitespiga.co.za
The Chefs Table
not in the index
Gemini with its own sitethechefstable.co.za
The Grill Room at The Oyster Box
not in the index
Gemini with its own siteoysterboxhotel.com
The Mad Italian
not in the index
ChatGPT with its own sitethemaditalian.co.za
Method

How this is read

Each assistant was asked each question once, 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. Any link between one name and the next belongs to that place. "With its own site" means the assistant linked the place's own website. "Through a marketplace" or "a directory" means it linked a listing instead, and "by name" means it gave no link. The direct links come from the Direct Index's own scan of the place's site. The assistant didn't supply them.

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