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

Bitter Monk

bittermonk.com is ready for agents.

Book directly: fareharbor.com/embeds/book/bittermonk/items/632121/?full-ite through fareharbor acting for the business · Menu: www.bittermonk.com/menu

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A
86.2%

56 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 +1 points

    Missing: telephone. 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: squarespace · 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 squarespace 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": "Bitter Monk",
  "url": "https://www.bittermonk.com/",
  "telephone": "6462571011",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "34th Street 68",
    "postalCode": "11232"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.6571256,
    "longitude": -74.0064921
  },
  "openingHours": "Th-Fr 15:00-22:00; Sa 14:00-22:00; Su 13:00-21:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "15:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "14:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "13:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/bittermonk/items/632121/?full-items=yes&amp;flow=1394672",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.bittermonk.com/menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/bittermonk/items/632121/?full-items=yes&amp;flow=1394672",
        "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.

# Bitter Monk

> bar or pub in 34th Street 68 11232, New York cafes and bars. Phone 6462571011.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/bittermonk/items/632121/?full-items=yes&amp;flow=1394672 (through fareharbor acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.bittermonk.com/menu

## Opening hours

Th-Fr 15:00-22:00; Sa 14:00-22:00; Su 13:00-21:00

## About

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

129 of 1,808 in New York cafes and bars

Top 7% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Bagel Shop A, Bite A. Just below: Caffè Palermo A, Coopers Craft & Kitchen 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.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 6,916 sites64%46%86.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Tadaima japanese84 mFno
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Slimāk breakfast, sandwich, coffee_shop644 mByes
L'Wren pub734 mCyes
Judy’s762 mDyes
C-Xique Cafe breakfast, sandwich, mexican827 mBno
Baked in Brooklyn coffee_shop, breakfast, sandwich884 mCno
Yafa Cafe coffee_shop, yemeni893 mByes
Block Hill Station1.1 kmFno
Sunrise Espresso & Bar breakfast, sandwich, mexican1.3 kmAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Bitter Monk in New York cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in New York cafes and bars1,80841%26%86.2%
Built with Squarespace in New York cafes and bars40367%44%86.2%
Using FareHarbor in New York cafes and bars186%100%86.2%
Built with Squarespace and using FareHarbor in New York cafes and bars186%100%86.2%

The best of Built with Squarespace in New York cafes and bars

Analogue A 100% · Sandwell A 100% · Delia's Lounge A 93.8% · Le Petit Parisienne A 93.8% · Maggie's Place A 93.8%

The climb

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 87.7%: 103rd of 1,808 in New York cafes and bars, up from 129th.

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.txtyes
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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