--- title: Portland cafes and bars in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/portland-cafes-bars/2026-10 --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Numbers](https://directindex.org/stats)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Portland cafes and bars, US # Portland cafes and bars in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use? 458 cafe and bar and pub websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 443 of them could be read. 17% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 35% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 101 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month. 458 sites scanned 17% turn an AI crawler away 35% book or order on their own domain 101 score A or B For October 2026 so far, 458 cafes and bars websites were scanned, with 443 reachable and 15 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at results across all scanned sites, 101 earned an A or B together, which is 22% of the scanned sites, while 31 received an A, 70 a B, 123 a C, 113 a D, and 121 an F. For online access, 77 sites turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 17% of the scanned sites, and 12 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Regarding customer tools, 157 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 35% of the reachable sites, while direct booking or ordering on the business's own site sits at 89, through a vendor on the business's own site is 68, only through a marketplace is 10, through an unrecognised third party is 13, and 263 have no booking or ordering path. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-27; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/portland-cafes-bars) · [November 2026 →](https://directindex.org/city/portland-cafes-bars/2026-11) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/portland-cafes-bars/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/portland-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/portland-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## How the sites stood at the end of October 2026 Grades | C | 123 | | F | 121 | | D | 113 | | B | 70 | | A | 31 | Menu or price list | none | 214 | | HTML page | 201 | | PDF | 18 | | elsewhere | 8 | | image | 2 | Direct booking or ordering | none | 263 | | own site | 89 | | vendor on own site | 68 | | third party | 13 | | marketplace | 10 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 77 | | Block one in robots.txt | 12 | | Unreachable from the scanner | 15 | Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 443 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 458 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count. Method ## How this page is made Every business of this kind that has its own website gets the same scan, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page uses each site's latest scan from before the end of October 2026. A site fixed the month after shows up on the next month's page. A past month doesn't change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question from before the month ended. 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