# Bistro du Midi: Agent-Direct Score C (55.4%) Site: https://www.bistrodumidi.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/bistrodumidi.com Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.) Bistro du Midi is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open the website of Bistro du Midi. It can read what Bistro du Midi offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.bistrodumidi.com/dining-room-menus-dinner - Phone: +1-617-279-8000 ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+14 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Booking only through opentable.** (+12 points) Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Ordering only through caviar.** (+12 points) Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Bistro du Midi > restaurant (french) in Boylston Street 272 02116 Boston, Boston. Phone +1-617-279-8000. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.bistrodumidi.com/dining-room-menus-dinner ## Opening hours Mo-Th 11:30-21:30, Fr 11:30-22:00, Sa 11:00-22:00, Su 11:00-21:30 ## About - Website: https://www.bistrodumidi.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response. - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly. - **OpenTable works with agents through its partners.** OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Read 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 467 of 814 in Boston. Top 57% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top tenth 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 | 98% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 95% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 43% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 18% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Mistral (A, 493 m, https://directindex.org/r/mistralbistro.com); Ma Maison (B, 1008 m, https://directindex.org/r/mamaisonboston.com); Rochambeau (A, 1223 m, https://directindex.org/r/rochambeauboston.com); Petit Robert Bistro (B, 1267 m, https://directindex.org/r/petitrobertbistro.com); LPM Restaurant & Bar Boston (C, 1392 m, https://directindex.org/r/lpmrestaurants.com); Deuxave (A, 1637 m, https://directindex.org/r/deuxave.com); Café Sauvage (B, 1661 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafesauvage.com); Café Saint-Germain (C, 4193 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafesaintgermain.com). ## What assistants answer Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included. Against its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 65% (48% A or B, 7098 sites); Sites using OpenTable 67% (43% A or B, 1462 sites); This site 55.4%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/bistrodumidi.com/agent-view Read by AI agents 7 times this month. ## Businesses like Bistro du Midi in Boston | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Boston | 814 | 53% | 41% | 55.4% | | Sites built with Squarespace in Boston | 122 | 78% | 75% | 55.4% | | Sites using OpenTable in Boston | 53 | 76% | 70% | 55.4% | | Sites built with Squarespace and using OpenTable in Boston | 18 | 80% | 83% | 55.4% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using OpenTable in Boston: Bar Vlaha (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/barvlaha.com); Krasi (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/krasiboston.com); Steel & Rye (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/steelandrye.com); Fox & The Knife (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/foxandtheknife.com); Pearl&Lime (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/pearlandlime.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through opentable; Ordering only through caviar) the score would be about 100%: first of 814 in Boston. ## The direct record What agents get for Bistro du Midi, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/bistrodumidi.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.bistrodumidi.com/dining-room-menus-dinner (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: Mo-Th 11:30-21:30, Fr 11:30-22:00, Sa 11:00-22:00, Su 11:00-21:30 (from OpenStreetMap) - Phone: +1-617-279-8000 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/bistrodumidi.com/menu ## Can an agent transact? Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0). - UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): not measured - ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): not measured - 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): not measured - Vendor terms for agents, OpenTable: Through partners. OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Read 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/bistrodumidi.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/bistrodumidi.com/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/bistrodumidi.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=bistrodumidi.com&force=1