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Assistants · Oxford cafes and bars, GB · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Oxford cafes and bars

23 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-22, 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 0% link a marketplace.

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

1 more answer named no place (a question back, or nothing found) and is left out of these shares.

100%

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

0%

link a marketplace

–

no marketplace linked

23

answers, 23 to the questions people ask and 0 about businesses

Of the 23 answers to the questions people ask, 100% link a business's own site or its booking software and 0% a marketplace.

Updated 2026-11-03. The Oxford 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 23 answers that link to it. Each assistant's column counts only that assistant's answers.

DestinationKindAnswersShareChatGPTGemini
The businesses' own sitesown site23100%12 100%11 100%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides939%1 8%8 73%
DesignMyNightvendor, direct522%1 8%4 36%
oxfordlocal.orgdirectory417%04 36%
arkells.comother site29%02 18%
dailyinfo.co.ukdirectory29%02 18%
uk-restaurants.comdirectory29%02 18%
westgateoxford.co.ukdirectory
Official shopping centre website featuring tenant lists and store directories.
29%02 18%
bluecoffeebox.comother site14%01 9%
coffeefindersclub.comother site14%01 9%
commongroundoxford.comother site14%1 8%0
cvent.comvendor, direct14%01 9%
handlebarcafesaxonburg.comother site14%01 9%
homeinstead.co.ukother site14%01 9%
hybridmag.co.ukother site14%01 9%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in Oxford cafes and bars

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

Gemini: answered by gemini-2.5-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
ChatGPT87%0%0%13%31
Gemini100%0%0%0%32
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-22. 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.Common Ground no link
Society Café own site
Theo’s Café own site
The Handle Bar Cafe & Kitchen own site
The Missing Bean own site
The Jericho Cafe own site
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.The Mad Hatter own site
The Oxo Bar own site
Gulp Fiction own site
The Varsity Club own site
Raouls Bar own site
George Street Social own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Tree Artisan Cafe own sitenothing named
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?The City Arms own site
The Bear Inn own site
The Chequers own site
Dewdrop own site
The Rickety Press own site
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?Café CoCo own site
Gees Restaurant & Bar own site
Oxford Brunch Bar own site
The Jericho Cafe own site
Bills Oxford own site
Megans By The Spires own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.O’Neill’s Oxford own siteSandys Piano Bar own site
The Jericho Tavern own site
Freud Cafe Bar own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?The Grand Café own site
Art Café own site
Society Café own site
The Handle Bar Cafe & Kitchen own site
Vaults & Garden own site
The Missing Bean own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.The Varsity Club no link
Victors Oxford no link
The Store’s Rooftop Bar & Terrace own site
The Store Rooftop Bar & Terrace own site
The Varsity Club own site
Victors Oxford own site
Ashmolean Museum Rooftop Restaurant own site
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.The Handle Bar own site
The Breakfast Club, Oxford own site
The Olive Branch own site
The Breakfast Club own site
The Olive Branch Cafe & Restaurant own site
The Handlebar Cafe & Kitchen own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Oxford Wine Cellar own site
The Anchor own site
The Oxo Bar own site
The Rickety Press own site
Raouls Cafe Bar own site
Freud Cafe Bar own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?The Grapes own site
Tap Social Taproom own site
The Market Tap own site
Bottom line no link
Tap Social Movement own site
The Jericho Tavern own site
The Royal Oak own site
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.Thirsty Meeples own siteThirsty Meeples own site
BrewDog Oxford 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 2026-11-03. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.