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Assistants · New York cafes and bars, US · October 2026

Where assistants send people in New York cafes and bars

36 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. 94% of them link a business's own site or its booking software, and 22% link a marketplace, most often Resy (14%).

94%

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

22%

link a marketplace

14%

link Resy, the marketplace named most

36

answers, 36 to the questions people ask and 0 about businesses

Of the 36 answers to the questions people ask, 94% link a business's own site or its booking software and 22% a marketplace, Resy most often.

Updated 2026-11-08. The New York 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 36 answers that link to it. Each assistant's column counts only that assistant's answers.

DestinationKindAnswersShareChatGPTClaudeGemini
The businesses' own sitesown site3392%12 100%10 83%11 92%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides514%1 8%04 33%
Resymarketplace514%02 17%3 25%
damnlines.comother site26%002 17%
joinknew.comother site26%002 17%
secretnyc.coother site26%002 17%
Tockvendor, direct26%01 8%1 8%
alizhotel.comother site13%001 8%
atly.comdirectory13%001 8%
balthazarny.comother site13%001 8%
bar54.comother site13%001 8%
boardsandbrews.comother site13%001 8%
DesignMyNightvendor, direct13%001 8%
donyc.comother site13%001 8%
esbnyc.comother site13%001 8%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in New York cafes and bars

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

Claude: answered by claude-sonnet-5-5 (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
ChatGPT90%0%0%10%42
Claude68%12%0%21%34
Gemini91%3%0%6%34
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.Café Diem own site
Tiny Dancer Coffee own site
Think Coffee, Tribeca own site
Capital One Café own site
Devoción no link
Culture Company Coffee no link
Culture Espresso no link
Perk Kafe no link
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.BANZARBAR own site
Ms. Alice own site
Overstory own site
The Dead Rabbit marketplace
Employees Only marketplace
Death & Co own site
The Dead Rabbit own site
Death & Co East Village own site
Madame George own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.La Cabra own site
SEY Coffee own site
Sey Coffee own site
Devoción own site
Kaigo Coffee Room no link
Devoción Coffee own site
Joe Coffee Company own site
Blue Bottle Coffee own site
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?City Coffee & Bar own site
Brickyard Craft Kitchen & Bar own site
The Three Monkeys own site
Jones Wood Foundry own site
Smithfield Hall own site
Football Factory at Legends no link
The Football Factory at Legends own site
Smithfield Hall own site
Carraghers Pub & Restaurant own site
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?Café Luce own site
Banc Cafe own site
Make a Reservation own site
Café Boulud own site
Chez Nick no linkThe Grey Dog own site
La Parisienne own site
Jacks Wife Freda own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.The Whitby Bar own site
The Living Room at Faena New York own site
The Lower own site
Birdland Jazz Club own site
Smalls Jazz Club own site
The Django own site
Blue Note own site
Cafe Wha own site
Smoke Jazz Club own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?New York City no link
La Farine Pâtisserie et Café own site
New York Bakery Café own site
Crumbly Cafe & Bakery own site
Café Sabarsky own site
Venieros Pasticceria & Cafe own site
Maman own site
Dominique Ansel Bakery own site
Cafe Lalo own site
Blue Bottle Coffee own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.Upstairs at The Kimberly own site
Bar Hugo own site
JIMMY own site
The Skylark own site
Mr. Purple own site
230 Fifth own site
Westlight own site
Refinery Rooftop own site
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.Midtown/Times Square no link
Masseria Caffè & Bakery own site
Café d’Avignon own site
Sugar Factory Times Square own site
Ánimo marketplace
Revelie Luncheonette own site
Café Chelsea own site
Balthazar marketplace
White Noise Coffee own site
Hole in the Wall Cafe own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Jadis own site
Shmoné Wine own site
Claire’s Wine Bar own site
Elsa marketplace
Dear Irving Gramercy own site
Bar Goto no link
Death & Co own site
Dear Irving on Hudson own site
Ophelia Lounge NYC own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?New York City no link
Tørst own site
Best overall own site
Blind Tiger Alehouse own site
Other Half Brewing own site
Grimm Artisanal Ales own site
Harlem Hops no link
Blind Tiger Ale House own site
Loreley Beer Garden own site
The Jeffrey own site
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.The Uncommons own site
Chaotic Good Cafe own site
The Brooklyn Strategist own site
The Uncommons own site
Bard & Baker own site
The Brooklyn Strategist own site
Hex & Company own site
The Uncommons own site
Chaotic Good 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.