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Assistants · Minneapolis cafes and bars, US · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Minneapolis cafes and bars

24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-21, 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 8% link a marketplace, most often joe.coffee (4%).

Fewer than 30 answers, so this share is not compared with other cities.

100%

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

8%

link a marketplace

4%

link joe.coffee, the marketplace named most

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 8% a marketplace, joe.coffee most often.

Updated 2026-11-09. The Minneapolis 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 guides938%09 75%
Tockvendor, direct521%05 42%
northloop.orgdirectory
Neighborhood association website featuring a directory of local businesses in the North Loop.
313%03 25%
petesnaps.comother site28%02 17%
toast.appvendor, direct28%02 17%
atly.comdirectory
Social mapping platform and discovery directory based on community recommendations.
14%01 8%
bauhausbrewlabs.comother site14%01 8%
beccadilley.comother site14%01 8%
beeradvocate.comdirectory
A beer review, community, and venue directory website.
14%01 8%
brewatlas.codirectory
Directory and mapping site for craft breweries and beer venues.
14%01 8%
dulcevidabakery.shopother site14%01 8%
happyhourhawk.comother site14%01 8%
heavytable.comother site14%01 8%
here-restaurants.comdirectory14%01 8%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in Minneapolis cafes and bars

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

Gemini: answered by gemini-3.8-flash (12).

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
ChatGPT94%0%0%6%34
Gemini86%0%0%14%37
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-21. 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.Spyhouse Coffee at Hotel Emery own site
Basil’s Cafe own site
Corner Coffee Downtown own site
FRGMNT Coffee no link
Website to order / browse own site
Spyhouse Coffee own site
Backstory Coffee Roasters own site
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Earl Giles own site
Bar Edera own site
Nightingale own site
Spoon and Stable no link
Vibe & Cocktails own site
Volsteads Emporium own site
Cobble Social House own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Loons Coffee own site
Northern Coffeeworks own site
Hola Coffee own site
Dogwood Coffee Co own site
Spyhouse Coffee Roasters own site
Caffetto Coffee House no link
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?Brit’s Pub own site
The Local own site
American football no link
The Local own site
Brits Pub own site
Toms Watch Bar own site
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?St. Genevieve own site
Porzana own site
Chloe own site
Aster Cafe own site
Hope Breakfast Bar own site
French Meadow Bakery & Cafe own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.Umbra own site
Hell’s Kitchen own site
Icehouse own site
Icehouse own site
Dakota own site
Aster Cafe own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?Butter Bakery Cafe own site
Bellecour North Loop own site
Farmers Kitchen + Bar Café own site
Patisserie 46 no link
The Vibe & Treats own site
Black Walnut Bakery own site
Bellecour own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.Nolo’s Rooftop Bar no link
The Rooftop Bar at Nolo’s own site
On the RoX own site
UNION Rooftop own site
Riva Terrace Restaurant and Bar own site
Reveal Rooftop Bar & Lounge own site
Hewing Hotel no link
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.Hen House Eatery own site
Gray Fox Coffee own site
Wood + Paddle Eatery own site
Hen House Eatery own site
Farmers Kitchen + Bar own site
FRGMNT Coffee own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?The Tasting Room own site
Bar Brava own site
Milly’s Wine Bar own site
Cobble Social House own site
Gori Gori Peku own site
The Tasting Room own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?Fulton Taproom own site
Sisyphus Brewing own site
Utepils Brewing own site
nothing named
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.The Chatterbox Pub own siteThe Chatterbox Pub own site
Gamezenter own site
Punch Bowl Social 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 2026-11-09. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.