Bar Sótano
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Ways to reach Bar Sótano directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. Report a mistake
In the alley behind Frontera Grill, 443 N Clark St, 60654, Chicago · +13123915857
Places near Bar Sótano that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Barrio160 m · mexican
- Cantina Laredo220 m · mexican
- Zombie Taco240 m · mexican
- Dosbros Fresh Mexican Grill410 m · mexican
- Costa Vida580 m · mexican
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open Bar Sótano's website. What Bar Sótano offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace.
40 of 65 points available
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.
See what an AI agent reads on this site →
Since the scan of 2026-10-23: the findings haven't changed.
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.
The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Chicago and named 31 places. Bar Sótano wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How Bar Sótano compares
1,620 of 3,640 in Chicago
Top 45% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Baba Pita C, Badou C. Just below: Beefee C, Billy Goat Tavern - at the MART C.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 94% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 58% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 29% | no |
The top 10% are the 370 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% | 61.5% |
| Sites using Resy 830 sites | 67% | 45% | 61.5% |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercadito mexican | 149 m | D | no |
| Barrio mexican | 160 m | B | yes |
| Dos Diablos mexican | 204 m | F | no |
| Cantina Laredo mexican | 217 m | B | yes |
| Zombie Taco mexican, tacos | 238 m | A | yes |
| Taco Joint mexican, tacos | 381 m | F | no |
| Dosbros Fresh Mexican Grill mexican | 405 m | A | yes |
| Su Casa Mexican Restaurant mexican | 487 m | C | no |
| Costa Vida mexican | 582 m | B | yes |
| Tzuco mexican | 594 m | A | yes |
Businesses like Bar Sótano in Chicago
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Chicago | 3,640 | 52% | 35% | 61.5% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Chicago | 493 | 66% | 42% | 61.5% |
| Sites using Resy in Chicago | 89 | 72% | 55% | 61.5% |
| Sites built with WordPress and using Resy in Chicago | 19 | 70% | 42% | 61.5% |
The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Resy in Chicago
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After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (Booking only through resy; Structured data is incomplete; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 104th of 3,640 in Chicago, up from 1620th.
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.
What to fix first
- Booking only through resy +12 points
Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor
- Structured data is incomplete +7 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
- Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points
Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. 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 Chicago. 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 (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
- Resy works with agents through its partners Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/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
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": "Organization",
"name": "Bar Sótano",
"url": "http://www.barsotano.com/",
"telephone": "+13123915857",
"address": "In the alley behind Frontera Grill, 443 N Clark St, 60654, Chicago",
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 41.890484,
"longitude": -87.63091414
}
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Bar Sótano > organization (mexican) in In the alley behind Frontera Grill, 443 N Clark St, 60654, Chicago, Chicago. Phone +13123915857. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://barsotano.com/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/2026/09/Sotano-Food-Menu-9.16.pdf ## About - Website: http://www.barsotano.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Own this business?
If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.
Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
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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What agents get for Bar Sótano
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/barsotano.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/chicago/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | barsotano.com/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/2026/09/Sot pdf | from the scan |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +13123915857 |
Stable links that count: /go/barsotano.com/menu 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.
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 Resy, read 2026-10-15 | Through partners |
Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Source. About Resy · all vendors.
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 | yes |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |