Botanist
botanistrestaurant.com is ready for agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
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
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.
57 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
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.
| Question | Named by | Asked |
|---|---|---|
| I want to book a table for two tonight somewhere romantic. | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-10-18 |
| Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve? | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-10-18 |
| A quiet place for a business lunch on Tuesday, book for three at noon. | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-10-18 |
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.
<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>
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)
How Botanist compares
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 does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 99% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 98% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 91% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 37% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 24% | no |
The top 10% are the 159 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with BentoBox 1,235 sites | 84% | 95% | 87.7% |
| Sites using OpenTable 2,352 sites | 65% | 40% | 87.7% |
| Sites using BentoBox 471 sites | 83% | 93% | 87.7% |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rice 'N Spice international | 514 m | D | no |
| Joey regional | 773 m | B | yes |
| Twisted Fork brunch, regional | 1.1 km | F | yes |
| L'Abattoir regional, french | 1.1 km | A | yes |
| Davie Social regional, mexican | 1.4 km | F | no |
| Bevel steak_house, regional | 1.5 km | B | yes |
| Cactus Club Cafe international | 1.5 km | B | yes |
| GlassHouse regional | 3.2 km | F | no |
| Lavidas Restaurant regional, french | 3.3 km | C | yes |
Businesses like Botanist in Vancouver
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Vancouver | 1,551 | 53% | 34% | 87.7% |
| Sites built with BentoBox in Vancouver | 7 | 89% | 100% | 87.7% |
| Sites using OpenTable in Vancouver | 53 | 64% | 42% | 87.7% |
| Sites built with BentoBox and using OpenTable in Vancouver | 1 | 88% | 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.
What to fix first
- 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
- Structured data is incomplete +3 points
Missing: opening hours. How to fix it
- 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
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
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.
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": "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&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&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.
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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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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.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=botanistres vendor on own site: BentoBox | found by the scan of 2026-10-19, not yet tested |
| Menu | www.botanistrestaurant.com/menus/ html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | Mo-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.
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.
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | no how |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |