The Direct Index
Report · London cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-21

The Black Lion

blacklion.london is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookCallWebsite

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

02087482639

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Black Lion 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 The Black Lion's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

83.1%

54 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

Where it stands

How The Black Lion compares

Where it stands

673 of 5,710 in London cafes and bars

Top 12% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Beehive B, The Bell on the Green B. Just below: The Kennington B, The Post Room Cafe B.

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 HTML93%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)93%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours48%no
Have an llms.txt22%no

The top 10% are the 572 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 18,903 sites63%46%83.1%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Old Ship126 mBno
The Carpenter's Arms266 mFno
Stamford Larder373 mFno
Britannia Tea Company376 mByes
Forty Eight Chiswick coffee_shop382 mFno
Cafe Maja456 mDno
The Dove474 mAyes
Patisserie Sainte Anne french513 mFno
W6 Garden Centre Cafe coffee_shop531 mCno
The Airedale Cafe and Bar561 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Black Lion in London cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in London cafes and bars5,71050%29%83.1%
Sites built with Squarespace in London cafes and bars56467%48%83.1%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace in London cafes and bars

Humble Grape A 100% · Nightjar A 100% · Friends of Ours A 95.4% · 45 Jermyn St. A 93.8% · Balls A 93.8%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No menu or price list found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 49th of 5,710 in London cafes and bars, up from 673rd.

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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +1 points

    Missing: telephone. How to fix it

  3. 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 cafes and bars. 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 (LocalBusiness) address, opening hours
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: squarespace · contact page /new-index: nothing new; booking page /bookings: nothing new

Fix kit

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 squarespace.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. 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": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "The Black Lion",
  "url": "http://www.blacklion.london/",
  "telephone": "02087482639",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.4902482,
    "longitude": -0.2416762
  },
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.blacklion.london/bookings",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.blacklion.london/bookings",
        "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.

# The Black Lion

> bar or pub in London cafes and bars. Phone 02087482639.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.blacklion.london/bookings (on the business's own site)

## About

- Website: http://www.blacklion.london/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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.

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Agent-Direct Score B

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/blacklion.london"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/blacklion.london.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
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.

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The direct record

What agents get for The Black Lion

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/blacklion.london, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/london-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.blacklion.london/bookings own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone02087482639

Stable links that count: /go/blacklion.london/book 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.

Transactable

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
Agent readiness

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 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