Raleigh cafes and bars: which businesses can AI agents use?
Every cafe, bar and pub business in Raleigh that has its own website gets the same scan. So far 64 of 68 distinct websites have been scanned.
businesses in OpenStreetMap
distinct business websites (a chain's site counts once)
of scanned sites turn an AI crawler away at the edge
score A or B so far
A 7 · B 9 · C 23 · D 13 · F 12
A score stays provisional until its site has had the action test and the citation check. Methodology · Markdown · JSON.
Ranked by Agent-Direct Score
If one of these is yours, open its page to rescan or claim it. 32 places you can book or order from directly →
| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Place at the Table tableraleigh.org · coffee, tea, breakfast, lunch, pastry | A 100% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 2 | NoRa Cafe noracafenc.com · coffee_shop | A 100% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 3 | Willow House willowhousecoffee.com | A 95.4% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 4 | Crooked Hammock Brewery crookedhammockbrewery.com | A 89.2% | HTML page | vendor on own site | open |
| 5 | Purr Cup Cafe purrcupcafe.com · coffee_shop | A 89.2% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 6 | Trophy Brewing Five Points trophybrewing.com | A 89.2% | none | own site | open |
| 7 | Kung Fu Tea kungfutea.com · bubble_tea | A 87.5% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 8 | Jubala Coffee jubalacoffee.com | B 84.6% | HTML page | vendor on own site | open |
| 9 | Pine State Coffee pinestatecoffee.com · coffee_shop | B 84.6% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 10 | Lincoln Theatre lincolntheatre.com | B 81.5% | elsewhere | own site | open |
| 11 | Biggby Coffee biggby.com · coffee_shop | B 80% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 12 | Boxcar Bar and Arcade theboxcarbar.com | B 75.4% | none | own site | open |
| 13 | Rise Biscuits & Donuts risebiscuitschicken.com | B 74.3% | HTML page | own site | blocked |
| 14 | Ammi's Dessert Boutique and Chai House ammisnc.com | B 73.8% | none | own site | open |
| 15 | Lynnwood Brewing Concern lynnwoodgrill.com | B 73.8% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 16 | The Bike Library thebikelibrary.com | B 73.8% | none | vendor on own site | open |
| 17 | Bedford Food & Drink wearebfd.com · coffee_shop | C 69.2% | none | vendor on own site | open |
| 18 | Songbird songbird.bar | C 69.2% | HTML page | marketplace | open |
| 19 | The Hop Yard thehopyardnc.com | C 69.2% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 20 | The Brass Tap brasstapbeerbar.com · american | C 68.8% | none | own site | open |
| 21 | Caribou Coffee cariboucoffee.com · coffee_shop | C 67.5% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 22 | Starbucks starbucks.com · coffee_shop | C 67.5% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 23 | Chapel of Bones Cafe chapelofbones.com | C 66.2% | HTML page | none | open |
| 24 | Heirloom - Coffee, Tea, Sake heirloom-raleigh.com | C 66.2% | HTML page | vendor on own site | open |
| 25 | Iris Coffee Lab iriscoffeelab.com | C 66.2% | HTML page | none | open |
Show all 63
| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Tap Yard tapyardraleigh.com | C 66.2% | HTML page | vendor on own site | open |
| 27 | Tea Q Boba teaqboba.com · bubble_tea | C 66.2% | HTML page | vendor on own site | open |
| 28 | Morning Times morningtimes-raleigh.com | C 64.6% | HTML page | vendor on own site | open |
| 29 | The Raleigh Times Bar raleightimesbar.com | C 64.6% | HTML page | vendor on own site | open |
| 30 | Botanical Lounge botanicalraleigh.com | C 63.1% | none | none | open |
| 31 | Hibernian hibernianpub.com · irish | C 63.1% | none | none | open |
| 32 | The Optimist theoptimistraleigh.com · coffee_shop, tea, coffee, dessert | C 63.1% | none | third party | open |
| 33 | Tin Roof tinroofraleigh.com | C 63.1% | none | own site | open |
| 34 | Saints & Scholars Pub saintsandscholarspub.com | C 61.5% | vendor on own site | open | |
| 35 | The Left Hook Coffee thelefthookcoffee.com · coffee_shop | C 61.5% | HTML page | none | open |
| 36 | Gloria Jean's gloriajeans.com · coffee_shop | C 58.5% | HTML page | third party | open |
| 37 | Watts & Ward wattsandward.com | C 58.5% | none | none | open |
| 38 | Pelagic Beer & Wine pelagicbeerandwine.com | C 56.9% | none | none | open |
| 39 | Crank Arm Brewing Company crankarmbrewing.com | C 55.4% | none | none | open |
| 40 | Gold Star Cafe spice3.com | D 53.8% | none | vendor on own site | open |
| 41 | Legends Nightclub legends-club.com | D 53.8% | none | vendor on own site | open |
| 42 | Little Native Coffee Co. drinklittlenative.com · coffee_shop | D 53.8% | none | vendor on own site | open |
| 43 | TEETS teetsraleigh.com | D 53.8% | HTML page | none | open |
| 44 | The Avenue avenueraleigh.com | D 53.8% | none | none | open |
| 45 | 321 Coffee - NC State Centennial 321coffee.com · coffee_shop | D 50.8% | none | none | open |
| 46 | Gussie's gussiesraleigh.com | D 49.2% | HTML page | none | open |
| 47 | Krave Kava Bar & Tea Lounge kravekava.com | D 49.2% | HTML page | none | open |
| 48 | Nomad nomadcocktailbar.com | D 49.2% | HTML page | none | open |
| 49 | Wakefield Tavern wakefieldtavernraleigh.com | D 49.2% | none | open | |
| 50 | Little Rey "Al Carbon" littlerey.com | D 47.7% | none | none | open |
| 51 | Flex Nightclub flex-club.com | D 43.1% | none | none | open |
| 52 | William & Company williamcobar.com | F 38.5% | none | none | open |
| 53 | The Third Place thirdplaceraleigh.com · coffee_shop | F 38% | none | none | blocked |
| 54 | Crema cremaandmore.com · coffee_shop, ice_cream, breakfast, sandwich | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 55 | Cup a Joe cupajoe.com · coffee_shop | F 31.7% | none | third party | blocked |
| 56 | Raleigh Brewing Company raleighbrewingcompany.com | F 30.8% | none | none | open |
| 57 | Side Quest Game Lounge + Bar sidequestgameloungeandbar.com | F 30.8% | none | none | open |
| 58 | 42 & Lawrence 42lawrence.com | F 30.3% | none | none | blocked |
| 59 | Red Line Raleigh redlinebeerwine.com | F 30.3% | none | none | blocked |
| 60 | D's Bottle Shop dsbottleshop.com | F 27.7% | elsewhere | none | blocked |
| 61 | Common Grounds Café & Creamery ncsudining.com | F 20% | none | none | open |
| 62 | Global Village Organic Coffee globalvillagecoffee.com · tea, coffee_shop | F 15.4% | none | none | blocked |
| 63 | The Haymaker thehaymakerraleigh.com | F 10.8% | HTML page | none | blocked |
What the index found in Raleigh cafes and bars
| none | 31 |
| HTML page | 29 |
| elsewhere | 2 |
| 2 |
| none | 28 |
| own site | 19 |
| vendor on own site | 13 |
| third party | 3 |
| marketplace | 1 |
| Wordpress | 18 |
| Unknown | 15 |
| Squarespace | 10 |
| Wix | 8 |
| Webflow | 4 |
| Shopify | 3 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 9 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 2 |
| Turn away every visitor without a browser | 1 |
| Didn't answer in time | 2 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 0 |
| No working site (dead address) | 4 |
The menu, channel and builder counts cover the 64 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts cover all 64 scanned sites. Each uses the latest scan. The listings come from OpenStreetMap. Businesses without their own website are counted but not scanned. Another 4 have an address that no longer answers (dead domain, bad certificate or server down). They're counted with the businesses that have no website and left out of the ranking.
Where assistants send people in Raleigh cafes and bars
Of 24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, 100% link a business's own site or its booking software and 4% link a marketplace, most often joe.coffee. The five destinations linked most:
| Destination | Kind | Answers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| The businesses' own sites | own site | 24 | 100% |
| Press, guides and forums | press and guides | 14 | 58% |
| downtownraleigh.org | directory | 3 | 13% |
| Square | vendor, direct | 3 | 13% |
| empireeats.com | other site | 2 | 8% |
The full league table, assistant by assistant → · The places named, question by question
What assistants recommend in Raleigh cafes and bars
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places and a link to book or order directly with each. For the places it recommended, the table shows how many came with a link to the place's own site, to a marketplace or to a directory, and how many came with no link at all.
| Assistant | Own site or direct | Marketplace | Directory | No link | Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 94% | 0% | 0% | 6% | 34 |
| Gemini | 89% | 0% | 0% | 11% | 36 |
Asked on 2026-10-25. A place in this index links to its report, and one with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. When a cell says "no link", the assistant named the place but didn't link to its site. Across the 12 questions, the assistants named 55 different places. This index has 180 businesses. Question by question →
Raleigh cafes and bars, month by month
Each month gets its own dated page, and its numbers are final once the month is over. The table shows the share of sites that turn AI crawlers away, the share that take bookings or orders on their own domain, and how many score A or B.
| Month | Sites scanned | Turn a crawler away | Direct booking or ordering | A or B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 so far | 64 | 14% | 50% | 16 |
Raleigh, by kind
Each kind of business has its own index, and every index gets the same scan. This page is the cafes and bars index.
| Kind | Businesses | Has a website | Sites scanned | Grades |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| restaurants and fast food | 731 | 468 | 243 | A 56 · B 74 · C 41 · D 22 · F 50 |
| cafes and bars this page | 180 | 95 | 64 | A 7 · B 9 · C 23 · D 13 · F 12 |
| hairdressers and beauty salons | 161 | 55 | 30 | A 0 · B 3 · C 8 · D 9 · F 10 |
| dentists, clinics and vets | 176 | 66 | 53 | A 1 · B 15 · C 19 · D 7 · F 11 |
| tours, attractions and museums | 15 | 12 | 9 | A 0 · B 2 · C 1 · D 3 · F 3 |
27 of them are chain outlets. A chain's site is scanned once and counted once in the rankings.
Can an agent transact in Raleigh cafes and bars?
20 of 64 reachable sites expose a rail an agent could transact through: UCP profile 11, Toast 6, Square 5. Measured, not scored.
A rail is a UCP profile, an ACP discovery document, an MCP server card, or an ordering vendor that takes orders placed by assistants (Square and Toast, and any vendor whose terms allow agents). Counted from the latest scan of each site; older scans were not measured. Methodology · vendor terms for agents.