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Assistants · Muscat cafes and bars, OM · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Muscat cafes and bars

24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-25, to the questions people ask and to questions about the top businesses in the index. 92% of them link a business's own site or its booking software, and 13% link a marketplace, most often evendo.com (8%).

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

92%

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

13%

link a marketplace

8%

link evendo.com, 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, 92% link a business's own site or its booking software and 13% a marketplace, evendo.com most often.

Updated 2026-11-08. The Muscat 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 site2292%12 100%10 83%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides729%07 58%
Google Mapsdirectory313%03 25%
evendo.commarketplace28%02 17%
55coffee.coother site14%1 8%0
808.goldother site14%1 8%0
agoda.commarketplace14%01 8%
beany.appvendor, direct14%01 8%
bestofmuscat.comother site14%01 8%
Eat Appvendor, direct14%01 8%
eatlazycat.comother site14%01 8%
Facebookdirectory14%01 8%
goglobalite.comother site14%01 8%
goodideaoman.comother site14%01 8%
happycow.netdirectory14%01 8%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in Muscat cafes and bars

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

Gemini: answered by gemini-2.5-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
ChatGPT100%0%0%0%24
Gemini64%0%9%27%33
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-25. 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.Lumi Café own site
Courtyard own site
Nabu Cafe no link
Courtyard at Sheraton Oman no link
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Trader Vic’s Muscat own siteSì Breeze own site
The Vault own site
John Barry Bar own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Hekaya own sitenothing named
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?nothing namedThe Countdown Sports Lounge own site
Habana Sports Bar own site
The Irishman own site
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?Roberto’s Muscat own site
Coorg Coffee Roastery own site
The Backstage at Aloft Muscat own site
Lazy Cat Restaurant own site
Robertos Muscat own site
Kargeen Caffe own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.Trader Vic’s Muscat own site
W XYZ Bar at Aloft Muscat own site
OMalleys Irish Pub own site
Trader Vics own site
W XYZ® Bar own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?La Cabra own site
L’ETO own site
Hekaya own site
PAUL own site
Modern Oman Bakery own site
Kargeen Caffe no link
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.SEEN by Olivier Muscat own site
Brezza Restaurant & Rooftop Bar own site
Siddharta Lounge by Buddha-Bar own site
Siddharta Lounge by Buddha-Bar directory
Bar Flamenco own site
Sama Terrazza Rooftop Lounge own site
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.City Centre Muscat in Seeb own site
Azura own site
DArcys Kitchen no link
Opening Hours no link
Manis Café no link
The Crepe Cafe no link
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Essenza Bar own siteThe Long Bar at The Chedi Muscat own site
John Barry Bar at Grand Hyatt Muscat no link
Caramel Restaurant & Lounge own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?Duke’s at Crowne Plaza Muscat own site
Butter Buns own site
Le Petit Belge at Crowne Plaza OCEC own site
Dukes Bar own site
Lords Pub own site
On the Rocks no link
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.Never Board own site
Good Idea Café own site
The Hearth Café own site
The Hearth Café directory
Never Board directory
Good Idea Oman 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.