The Direct Index
Report · London · scanned 2026-10-21

The Great Court Restaurant

britishmuseum.org is hard for agents to use.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach The Great Court Restaurant directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Through designmynight acting for the business. Report a mistake

Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG, London · +442073238990

WhatsApp: a link on the site

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Great Court Restaurant that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by The Great Court Restaurant's website. What The Great Court Restaurant offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through DesignMyNight.

45.5%

29.6 of 65 points available

2/5

agent-readiness level, Bot-Aware

6

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

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 13 everyday questions about London and named 66 places. The Great Court Restaurant wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How The Great Court Restaurant compares

Where it stands

6,026 of 9,352 in London

Top 64% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Wickham Bay D, 6Burgerz D. Just below: Baluchi D, Dawat D.

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 HTML87%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours62%no
Have an llms.txt36%no

The top 10% are the 957 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using DesignMyNight 53 sites66%32%45.5%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Porter's Table european652 mByes
Aulis european778 mCno
The Forge european865 mFno
Koha Restaurant and Bar european912 mBno
Homage european941 mFno
Cora Pearl european944 mAyes
Bantof european1.0 kmAyes
Marjorie's european1.1 kmByes
Spring Restaurant european1.1 kmAyes
Mauro Colagreco european1.5 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Great Court Restaurant in London

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in London9,35254%35%45.5%
Sites using DesignMyNight in London2665%35%45.5%

The best of the sites using DesignMyNight in London

Joia Battersea A 92.3% · Chino Latino A 87.7% · King's Arms A 87.7% · The Union Paddington B 83.1% · Wholesome Greens By Tossed B 80%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended), the score would be about 83.1%. That would be 1466th of 9,352 in London, up from 6026th.

This site appears in 2 cities (4 places on britishmuseum.org). All the cities it's in →

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 structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points

    Requests as GPTBot (cloudflare_challenge), ClaudeBot (cloudflare_challenge) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  3. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended +3.7 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

  4. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

  5. 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

  6. The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data

    The site shows +442073238181, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists +442073238990. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org.

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. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • Booking through designmynight on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: unknown · contact page /about-us: 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 your builder.

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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "The Great Court Restaurant",
  "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting/eating/great_court_restaurant.aspx",
  "telephone": "+442073238990",
  "address": "Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG, London",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.51947803,
    "longitude": -0.12664011
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://partners.designmynight.com/pf/js?venue_id=5a732b475981d1686258e1c4",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

robots.txt

Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.

# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

llms.txt

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

# The Great Court Restaurant

> local business (european) in Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG, London, London. Phone +442073238990.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://partners.designmynight.com/pf/js?venue_id=5a732b475981d1686258e1c4 (through designmynight acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.britishmuseum.org/sites/default/files/2026-09/Great_Court_Restaurant_menu.pdf

## About

- Website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting/eating/great_court_restaurant.aspx
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score D

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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 The Great Court Restaurant

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/britishmuseum.org, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/london/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookpartners.designmynight.com/pf/js?venue_id=5a732b475981d16862 vendor on own site: DesignMyNightfound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.britishmuseum.org/sites/default/files/2026-09/Great_Cour pdffrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+442073238990

Stable links that count: /go/britishmuseum.org/book, /go/britishmuseum.org/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
DesignMyNight, read
Not stated

The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About DesignMyNight · all vendors.

Agent readiness

Level 2 of 5, Bot-Aware

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.txtyes
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 businessno