--- title: Helsinki cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/helsinki-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 · Helsinki cafes and bars, FI # Helsinki cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 334 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 254 reachable. 24% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 33% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 53 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 334 sites scanned 24% turn an AI crawler away 33% book or order on their own domain 53 score A or B Out of 334 cafes and bars websites scanned, 254 were reachable and 80 were unreachable from our scanner. Looking at site features, 85 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 33% of the reachable sites, while 67 offer booking or ordering direct on the business's own site, 18 do so through a vendor on the business's own site, 2 only through a marketplace, 11 through an unrecognised third party, and 156 have no booking or ordering path. For visitor information, menus or price lists appear as an HTML page on 73 sites, on the page itself on 8, as a PDF on 7, on another site on 3, as an image on 2, and 161 sites have no menu or price list. Regarding technical access and performance, 62 reachable sites turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 24% of the reachable sites, 8 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt, and the grades stand at 10 for A, 43 for B, 56 for C, 76 for D, and 149 for F, with 53 earning an A or B together, which is 16% of the scanned sites. 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. 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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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