The Direct Index
Report · New York cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-14

Barfly

barfly.nyc is ready for agents.

Book directly: barfly.nyc/-reservations?source=pop_up&spot_id=545424&destin on the business's own site · Menu: barfly.nyc/food-menu

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A
90.8%

59 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +3 points

    Missing: opening hours. How to fix it

  2. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in New York cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Barfly",
  "url": "https://barfly.nyc",
  "telephone": "+1-212-473-9660",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "3rd Avenue 244",
    "postalCode": "10010",
    "addressLocality": "New York",
    "addressCountry": "US"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.7371351,
    "longitude": -73.9846154
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Su 11:00-04:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "04:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "pub"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://barfly.nyc/-reservations?source=pop_up&spot_id=545424&destination=reservations&promotion=reservations",
  "hasMenu": "https://barfly.nyc/food-menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://barfly.nyc/-reservations?source=pop_up&spot_id=545424&destination=reservations&promotion=reservations",
        "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.

# Barfly

> bar or pub (pub) in 3rd Avenue 244 10010 New York, New York cafes and bars. Phone +1-212-473-9660.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://barfly.nyc/-reservations?source=pop_up&spot_id=545424&destination=reservations&promotion=reservations (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://barfly.nyc/food-menu

## Opening hours

Mo-Su 11:00-04:00

## About

- Website: https://barfly.nyc
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

63 of 1,808 in New York cafes and bars

Top 3% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Vine A, 72nd Eatery A. Just below: Black Iron Burger A, Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels A.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)99%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours23%no
Have an llms.txt9%no

The top tenth is the 182 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Molly's pub169 mFno
The Globe pub211 mAyes
Dog & Bone pub376 mDno
AWOL Bar and Grill pub, international378 mDno
Buddy's pub454 mByes
Sundays Well pub487 mAyes
The Winslow pub, brunch500 mBno
The Penny Farthing american, pub, brunch581 mByes
Turnmill pub597 mAyes
Downtown Social pub883 mByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Barfly in New York cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in New York cafes and bars1,80841%26%90.8%

The best of Same kind in New York cafes and bars

Analogue A 100% · Calyer Cafe & Kitchen A 100% · Sandwell A 100% · Jeremy's A 96.9% · Black Seed Bagels A 95.4%

The climb

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 5th of 1,808 in New York cafes and bars, up from 63rd.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

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Agent-Direct Score A

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Owners

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