The Direct Index
Report · Newcastle upon Tyne · scanned 2026-11-14

Border Minstrel

borderminstrel.co.uk is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Border Minstrel directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. Report a mistake

High Gosforth Park, B1318, NE3 5EJ, Newcastle upon Tyne · +441912362002

Its menu mentions: vegetarian dishes, a lunch or set menu

Prices: 5 prices on the site, the middle one £1.00

Nearby, also direct

Places near Border Minstrel 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 Border Minstrel's website. It can read what Border Minstrel offers. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online.

69.2%

45 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

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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What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

5 prices on the landing page, the middle one £1.00.

In Newcastle upon Tyne, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £13.50.

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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 22 everyday questions about Newcastle upon Tyne and named 84 places. Border Minstrel wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Border Minstrel compares

Where it stands

184 of 457 in Newcastle upon Tyne

Top 40% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Chinafood B, Pepe's Piri Piri B. Just below: The White Swan Inn C, Vegan Festival Uk C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML79%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours62%no
Have an llms.txt21%no

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Gosforth Park Garden Centre1.3 kmByes
Prima Restaurant italian1.4 kmByes
Lezzet turkish1.6 kmAno
Pizza Dough Co pizza1.9 kmAyes
Rendezvous Express chinese2.1 kmCno
Nice Noodle chinese2.3 kmByes
The Days Of The Raj indian2.5 kmCno
GOSFORTH2.5 kmByes
Red House Farm Take Away fish_and_chips2.7 kmFno
Dice Pizza2.8 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Border Minstrel in Newcastle upon Tyne

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Newcastle upon Tyne45758%40%69.2%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 7th of 457 in Newcastle upon Tyne, up from 184th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No booking or ordering link on the website +13 points

    There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +4 points

    Missing: telephone, opening hours. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (Organization) address
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.

Builder: unknown · contact page /contact-us/: nothing new; menu page /menus/: 49 prices · What to paste

Owners

Own this business?

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