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Assistants · London cafes and bars, GB · October 2026

Where assistants send people in London cafes and bars

35 answers from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-26, to the questions people ask and to questions about the top businesses in the index. 97% of them link a business's own site or its booking software, and 9% link a marketplace, most often firsttable.co.uk (3%).

97%

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

9%

link a marketplace

3%

link firsttable.co.uk, the marketplace named most

35

answers, 35 to the questions people ask and 0 about businesses

Of the 35 answers to the questions people ask, 97% link a business's own site or its booking software and 9% a marketplace, firsttable.co.uk most often.

Updated 2026-11-08. The London 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 35 answers that link to it. Each assistant's column counts only that assistant's answers.

DestinationKindAnswersShareChatGPTClaudeGemini
The businesses' own sitesown site3497%12 100%11 92%11 100%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides1029%02 17%8 73%
DesignMyNightvendor, direct39%003 27%
karpo.aiother site
AI technology platform that does not fit business, directory, or booking categories.
26%002 18%
SevenRoomsvendor, direct26%01 8%1 9%
Tockvendor, direct26%01 8%1 9%
amanogroup.comother site13%1 8%00
Apple Mapsdirectory13%001 9%
bar-termini-soho.comother site13%001 9%
bestafternoonteas.comother site13%001 9%
boardgamecafes.co.ukother site13%001 9%
booking.pagevendor, direct13%001 9%
boroughmarket.org.ukother site13%001 9%
brewatlas.codirectory13%001 9%
cafe56.co.ukother site13%1 8%00

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in London cafes and bars

ChatGPT: answered by gpt-6-luna (12).

Claude: answered by claude-sonnet-5-5 (12).

Gemini: answered by gemini-3.8-flash (11).

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
ChatGPT100%0%0%0%34
Claude79%0%0%21%34
Gemini97%0%0%3%33
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-26. 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.

QuestionChatGPTClaudeGemini
A quiet cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning.Host Café own site
21Soho own site
Notes Coffee Roasters own site
Prufrock Coffee own site
Workshop Coffee own site
Host Café own site
The Wren Coffee own site
WatchHouse Covent Garden own site
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Disrepute own site
Make a Booking own site
Cato own site
The Perception own site
Nightjar own site
Bar Termini own site
Swift Soho own site
Nightjar own site
Happiness Forgets own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Catalyst own site
Prufrock Coffee own site
Ozone Coffee, London Fields own site
Monmouth Coffee Company own site
Allpress Espresso Shoreditch own site
Workshop Coffee own site
Prufrock Coffee own site
Rosslyn Coffee own site
WatchHouse own site
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?The Side Hustle own site
The Bull & Egret own site
North London Tavern own site
The Swan, Hammersmith own site
The Counting House own site
Belushis own site
BOX Piccadilly own site
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?SENZO own site
BRIX own site
Carmel own site
Burnt no link
Esters no link
Dobar no link
Caravan own site
Lantana own site
Granger & Co no link
Direct Website & Locations own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.28°-50° Wine Workshop & Kitchen own site
The Nel own site
The Bloomsbury Club Bar own site
Ricco Lounge own site
Ronnie Scotts own site
The Jazz Cafe own site
The Piano Works own site
Nightjar own site
Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?Maison Bertaux own site
Café Petiole own site
The Delaunay own site
Peggy Porschen own site
Ottolenghi own site
Common no link
Maison Bertaux own site
Kova Patisserie own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.GŎNG own site
Make a Reservation own site
Bussey Rooftop Bar own site
Radio Rooftop own site
Stanleys Rooftop Bar own site
Netil360 no link
not available
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.Pivot own site
My Place Soho own site
Caffè Lockes own site
Dishoom Covent Garden own site
The Wolseley own site
Duck & Waffle own site
The Wolseley own site
Dishoom own site
Caravan own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Basement Sate own site
Baudry Greene own site
Le Beaujolais own site
Scarfes Bar own site
Hacha no link
Little Blue Door no link
Swift Soho own site
Bar Termini own site
Satans Whiskers own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?The Waterloo Tap own site
The Craft Beer Co., Clerkenwell own site
The Craft Beer Co. own site
Pressure Drop Brewery Taproom own site
The Euston Tap own site
The Craft Beer Co. own site
The Euston Tap own site
The Rake own site
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.Draughts Waterloo own site
Otter Chaos own site
Badger Badger Deptford own site
Draughts Waterloo own site
Draughts Stratford own site
Bad Moon Cafe own site
Draughts own site
Loading Bar own site
Bad Moon Cafe 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 2026-11-08. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.