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Assistants · San Francisco cafes and bars, US · October 2026

Where assistants send people in San Francisco 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. 100% of them link a business's own site or its booking software, and 25% link a marketplace, most often Resy (17%).

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

100%

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

25%

link a marketplace

17%

link Resy, 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, 100% link a business's own site or its booking software and 25% a marketplace, Resy most often.

Updated 2026-11-03. The San Francisco 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 site24100%12 100%12 100%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides938%09 75%
Resymarketplace417%04 33%
Time Outdirectory313%03 25%
Squarevendor, direct28%02 17%
Toastvendor, direct28%02 17%
about.meother site14%01 8%
beerandbrewing.comother site14%01 8%
bernalconnect.comother site14%01 8%
brewatlas.codirectory14%01 8%
coffeemanufactory.comother site14%01 8%
curiousspoon.appvendor, direct14%01 8%
cyties.comother site14%01 8%
detoursf.comother site14%1 8%0
DoorDashmarketplace14%01 8%

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

By assistant

What each assistant does in San Francisco cafes and bars

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

Gemini: answered by gemini-3.8-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
ChatGPT97%0%0%3%36
Gemini95%0%0%5%37
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.A Cup of Joy own site
Réveille Coffee own site
Cafe La Tazita own site
Capital One Café own site
Sextant Coffee Roasters own site
Sightglass Coffee own site
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Left Door own site
Lore own site
Parasol at Café Flore own site
Trick Dog own site
Bar Sprezzatura own site
Left Door own site
Pacific Cocktail Haven no link
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Equator Coffees own site
Q Specialty Coffee own site
The Mellow SF own site
Ritual Coffee Roasters own site
Sightglass Coffee own site
Saint Frank Coffee own site
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?American football no link
SoMa Social own site
Underdogs Cantina own site
Royal Exchange own site
Golden Gate Tap Room own site
The Kezar Pub own site
The Boardroom own site
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?Hilda and Jesse own site
Town’s End Brunch own site
Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco own site
Foreign Cinema own site
Brenda’s French Soul Food own site
Zazie own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.Comstock Saloon own site
Local Edition own site
The Mellow own site
Mr. Tipples Recording Studio own site
Black Cat own site
Keys Jazz Bistro own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?Jane the Bakery own site
Tartine Manufactory own site
Yasukochi’s Sweet Stop own site
b. patisserie own site
Tartine Manufactory own site
Arsicault Bakery own site
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.KAIYŌ Rooftop own site
Shelby’s Rooftop own site
Starlite own site
Charmaines Rooftop Bar & Lounge own site
Cavaña own site
KAIYŌ Rooftop own site
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.Lori’s Diner own site
Caffè Central own site
Cafe La Tazita own site
The Grove - Yerba Buena own site
Cafe Madeleine own site
Sears Fine Food own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Etcetera Wine Bar own site
Bosque own site
Wilson & Wilson own site
Bourbon & Branch own site
Left Door own site
Zam Zam no link
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?Southern Pacific Brewing own site
The Amsterdam own site
Fort Point Valencia own site
Toronado own site
Cellarmaker House of Pizza own site
Holy Water own site
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.The Game Parlour own site
Next Door North Beach own site
The Game Parlour own site
The Detour own site
The Sycamore 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.