The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Washington, DC cafes and bars, US

Washington, DC cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

498 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 340 reachable. 39% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 60% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 152 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

498

sites scanned

39%

turn an AI crawler away

60%

book or order on their own domain

152

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F216
B116
C75
D55
A36
Menu or price list
HTML page182
none131
elsewhere13
PDF12
image2
Direct booking or ordering
none112
vendor on own site103
own site102
third party15
marketplace8
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge133
Block one in robots.txt11
Unreachable from our scanner158

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 340 reachable sites.

Method

How this page is made

Every business of the index's kind with a website of its own is scanned the same way, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page takes the latest scan of each site before October 2026 ended, so a site fixed in the following month shows up in the following month's page, not here. A past month does not change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.