Report · Edinburgh cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-21

Argyle Bar

argyleplace.co.uk is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

Ways to reach Argyle Bar directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Through resdiary acting for the business. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Thu 16:00–23:00 · Fri 15:00–00:00 · Sat 14:00–00:00 · Sun 15:00–23:00

Argyle Place 15-17 EH9 1JJ Edinburgh · +44 131 221 9759

Nearby, also direct

Places near Argyle Bar that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Victor Hugo Deli300 m
The Birchwood410 m

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Argyle Bar's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through ResDiary.

C43 of 65 · partly visible to agentsThe Direct Index · 2026-10-21

66.2%

43 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

Where it stands

How Argyle Bar compares

Where it stands

233 of 716 in Edinburgh cafes and bars

Top 33% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Barologist C, AMT Coffee C. Just below: Bar Soba Edinburgh C, Graze Coffee & Chocolate House C.

What the top 10% of the index does	Top 10%	This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain	100%	yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML	86%	no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)	90%	yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours	38%	no
Have an llms.txt	30%	no

The top 10% are the 73 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

	Average score	A or B	This site
Sites built with WordPress 145,483 sites	57%	28%	66.2%
Sites using ResDiary 158 sites	62%	34%	66.2%

Nearest places in the index

Place	Distance	Grade	Direct booking or ordering
The Earl of Marchmont	85 m	D	no
The Ceramic Experience	87 m	D	no
Victor Hugo Deli	300 m	B	yes
Red Box Marchmont	301 m	F	no
The Breakfast Bothy breakfast	323 m	C	no
The Birchwood	408 m	F	yes
Mara's Picklery	418 m	F	no
Uplands Roast Coffee coffee_shop	483 m	F	no
Cafe Refresh	556 m	D	no
Cult Coffee Roasters	606 m	F	no

Businesses like yours

Businesses like Argyle Bar in Edinburgh cafes and bars

Group	Sites	Avg score	A or B	This site
Businesses of the same kind in Edinburgh cafes and bars	716	50%	27%	66.2%
Sites built with WordPress in Edinburgh cafes and bars	207	60%	39%	66.2%
Sites using ResDiary in Edinburgh cafes and bars	6	63%	17%	66.2%
Sites built with WordPress and using ResDiary in Edinburgh cafes and bars	5	65%	20%	66.2%

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using ResDiary in Edinburgh cafes and bars

Fruitmarket Cafe B 73.8% · OX184 C 61.5% · The Holyrood 9A C 61.5% · The Southern C 61.5%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 34th of 716 in Edinburgh cafes and bars, up from 233rd.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

Structured data is incomplete +7 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
No menu or price list found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it
No llms.txt no points, but worth doing
Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

No one is listed yet to fix this in Edinburgh cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
Structured data found (Person) no address, phone or hours in it
Booking through resdiary on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
ResDiary works with agents through its partners ResDiary's consumer terms bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automatic means of access except as expressly authorised by ResDiary; Google names ResDiary as an AI Mode booking partner. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.resdiary.com/old/Terms. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Argyle Bar",
  "url": "http://www.argyleplace.co.uk",
  "telephone": "+44 131 221 9759",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Argyle Place 15-17",
    "postalCode": "EH9 1JJ",
    "addressLocality": "Edinburgh",
    "addressCountry": "GB"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 55.9382403,
    "longitude": -3.191593
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Th 16:00-23:00; Fr 15:00-24:00; Sa 14:00-24:00; Su 15:00-23:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "16:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "15:00",
      "closes": "24:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "14:00",
      "closes": "24:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "15:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.resdiary.com/restaurant/argyleplace",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.resdiary.com/restaurant/argyleplace",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Argyle Bar

> bar or pub in Argyle Place 15-17 EH9 1JJ Edinburgh, Edinburgh cafes and bars. Phone +44 131 221 9759.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.resdiary.com/restaurant/argyleplace (through resdiary acting for the business)

## Opening hours

Mo-Th 16:00-23:00; Fr 15:00-24:00; Sa 14:00-24:00; Su 15:00-23:00

## About

- Website: http://www.argyleplace.co.uk
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.

Owners

Own this business?

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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/argyleplace.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/argyleplace.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>

For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Argyle Bar

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/argyleplace.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/edinburgh-cafes-bars/direct.json.

Path	Link	Status
Book	www.resdiary.com/restaurant/argyleplace vendor on own site: ResDiary	found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Order	none on record
Menu	none on record
Hours	Mo-Th 16:00-23:00; Fr 15:00-24:00; Sa 14:00-24:00; Su 15:00-23:00 (open now)	from OpenStreetMap
Phone	+44 131 221 9759

Stable links that count: /go/argyleplace.co.uk/book answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

UCP profile /.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol	no
ACP discovery document /.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol	no
MCP server card /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json	no
Ordering vendor that takes agent orders Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents	no
Vendor terms for agents ResDiary, read 2026-10-15	Through partners

ResDiary's consumer terms bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automatic means of access except as expressly authorised by ResDiary; Google names ResDiary as an AI Mode booking partner. Source. About ResDiary · all vendors.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepage	no how
sitemap.xml	yes
AI bot rules in robots.txt	yes
Content Signals in robots.txt	no how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdown	no how
llms.txt	no how
API catalog (RFC 9727)	no how
MCP server card	no how
A2A agent card	no how
Agent Skills index	no how
OAuth or OIDC discovery	no how
OAuth protected resource metadata	no how
auth.md	no how
Web Bot Auth key directory	no how
ARD capability manifest	no how
DNS-AID records	no how
WebMCP tools on the page	no how
JSON-LD for the business	yes