The Direct Index
Report · Vancouver · scanned 2026-10-19

Botanist

botanistrestaurant.com is ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Botanist directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-19. Through bentobox acting for the business. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mo-Fr 06:30-22:00; Sa-Su 07:00-22:00

Canada Place 1038 V6C 0B9 Vancouver · +1-604-695-5500

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Botanist's website. It can read what Botanist offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.

87.7%

57 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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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for 3 questions, including "I want to book a table for two tonight somewhere romantic" in Vancouver, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Vancouver and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in 3 answers, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
I want to book a table for two tonight somewhere romantic.Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-18
Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-18
A quiet place for a business lunch on Tuesday, book for three at noon.Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-18

Every place named in Vancouver, question by question.

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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/botanistrestaurant.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/botanistrestaurant.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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.

Recommended when people ask:
“I want to book a table for two tonight somewhere romantic.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
“Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
“A quiet place for a business lunch on Tuesday, book for three at noon.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Botanist compares

Where it stands

94 of 1,551 in Vancouver

Top 6% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Apollos's A, Banana Leaf on Broadway A. Just below: Coquette A, Folietta A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML98%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)91%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours37%no
Have an llms.txt24%no

The top 10% are the 159 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with BentoBox 1,235 sites84%95%87.7%
Sites using OpenTable 2,352 sites65%40%87.7%
Sites using BentoBox 471 sites83%93%87.7%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Rice 'N Spice international514 mDno
Joey regional773 mByes
Twisted Fork brunch, regional1.1 kmFyes
L'Abattoir regional, french1.1 kmAyes
Davie Social regional, mexican1.4 kmFno
Bevel steak_house, regional1.5 kmByes
Cactus Club Cafe international1.5 kmByes
GlassHouse regional3.2 kmFno
Lavidas Restaurant regional, french3.3 kmCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Botanist in Vancouver

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Vancouver1,55153%34%87.7%
Sites built with BentoBox in Vancouver789%100%87.7%
Sites using OpenTable in Vancouver5364%42%87.7%
Sites built with BentoBox and using OpenTable in Vancouver188%100%87.7%

The best of the sites using OpenTable in Vancouver

Tojos A 90% · New Fuji A 86.2% · Blaze Gourmet Burgers A 85.1% · Miso Taco B 84.6% · Takenaka Uni Bar B 84.6%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Booking only through opentable; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 1,551 in Vancouver.

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. Booking only through opentable +5 points

    Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor

  2. Structured data is incomplete +3 points

    Missing: 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 Vancouver. 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 (FoodEstablishment) address, phone
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering through bentobox on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: bentobox · Front: cloudflare · contact page /location/botanist/: phone; menu page /menus/: menu schema

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 bentobox.

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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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Botanist",
  "url": "http://www.botanistrestaurant.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-604-695-5500",
  "email": "info@botanistrestaurant.com",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Canada Place 1038",
    "postalCode": "V6C 0B9",
    "addressLocality": "Vancouver"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 49.2882856,
    "longitude": -123.1166693
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 06:30-22:00; Sa-Su 07:00-22:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "06:30",
      "closes": "22:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "07:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "international",
    "regional"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.botanistrestaurant.com/menus/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://getbento.com/?utm_source=header&amp;utm_campaign=botanistrestaurant.com",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Botanist

> restaurant (international, regional) in Canada Place 1038 V6C 0B9 Vancouver, Vancouver. Phone +1-604-695-5500.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://getbento.com/?utm_source=header&amp;utm_campaign=botanistrestaurant.com (through bentobox acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.botanistrestaurant.com/menus/

## Opening hours

Mo-Fr 06:30-22:00; Sa-Su 07:00-22:00

## About

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

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Agent-Direct Score A

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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.

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The direct record

What agents get for Botanist

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/botanistrestaurant.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/vancouver/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordergetbento.com/?utm_source=header&amp;utm_campaign=botanistres vendor on own site: BentoBoxfound by the scan of 2026-10-19, not yet tested
Menuwww.botanistrestaurant.com/menus/ html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Fr 06:30-22:00; Sa-Su 07:00-22:00 (open now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-604-695-5500

Stable links that count: /go/botanistrestaurant.com/order, /go/botanistrestaurant.com/menu 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
Vendor terms for agents
BentoBox, read 2026-10-15
Not stated

BentoBox's terms (last updated 5 January 2023) bar automated means such as spiders, robots and crawlers to download or scrape data, except search engines and public archives; they do not address an agent making a reservation for a person, and no agent programme was found. Source. About BentoBox · all vendors.

Found one hop past the home page: contact page /location/botanist/: phone; menu page /menus/: menu schema.

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.txtno how
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