--- title: Washington, DC cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/washington-cafes-bars/2026-10?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Washington, DC cafes and bars, US # Washington, DC cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 508 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 383 reachable. 35% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 59% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 160 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 508 sites scanned 35% turn an AI crawler away 59% book or order on their own domain 160 score A or B For October 2026 so far, we scanned 508 cafes and bars websites, finding 383 reachable and 125 unreachable from our scanner. Across the reachable sites, 226 take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 59% of the reachable sites, while 134 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 35% of the reachable sites, and 12 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Regarding menus, 205 present an HTML page, 145 have no menu or price list, 15 are on another site, 14 are as a PDF, and 4 appear as an image. For booking or ordering options, 129 have no booking or ordering path, 114 operate direct on the business's own site, 112 run through a vendor on the business's own site, 18 go through an unrecognised third party, and 10 function only through a marketplace, with overall grades showing 39 at A, 121 at B, 86 at C, 61 at D, 201 at F, and 160 at A or B together, which is 31% of the scanned sites. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-16; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. 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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. 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