The Direct Index
Report · London · scanned 2026-10-21

Bengal Village

bengalvillagebricklane.co.uk is ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Bengal Village directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Brick Lane 75a E1 6QL London · +44 02073664868

Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes

Nearby, also direct

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

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Bengal Village's website. It can read what Bengal Village offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

95.4%

62 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

The assistants were asked 23 everyday questions about London and named 108 places. Bengal Village wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Bengal Village compares

Where it stands

195 of 8,985 in London

Top 2% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Beans & Blues A, Bella Roma Beckenham - Italian Restaurant A. Just below: Blue Junction A, Bohemia House A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML87%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours63%yes
Have an llms.txt37%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 251,601 sites55%24%95.4%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Curry Bazaar indian7 mAyes
Bahara - Indian Kitchen & Culture indian11 mByes
Standard Balti House indian12 mByes
The Standard - Voted Best Indian on Bricklane indian16 mCyes
The Nazrul indian47 mFno
Aladin indian52 mDno
Sheba indian62 mByes
City Spice indian68 mAyes
Meraz indian70 mByes
The Monsoon indian120 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Bengal Village in London

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in London8,98554%36%95.4%
Sites built with WordPress in London2,67166%48%95.4%
Findings

What to fix first

  1. Ordering through an unrecognised third party no points, but worth doing

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  2. 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

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in London. 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 (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /contact-us-2/: booking via thefork, booking via opentable; menu page /our-menu/: nothing new; booking page /make-a-reservation/: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

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Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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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.

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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. Show the details