Café Stoa
cafestoa.ch is partly visible to agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
Ways to reach Café Stoa directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-16. Report a mistake
Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Wed 12:00–17:00 · Thu closed · Fri 17:00–22:00 · Sat 14:00–22:00 · Sun 14:00–20:00
Münchensteinerstrasse 1 4052 Basel · +41 77 217 38 71
Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)
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The website's grade
Some AI assistants are turned away by Café Stoa's website. What Café Stoa offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through forms.gle.
40.7 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.
What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored
These don't change the grade.
Visitors from abroad, and assistants answering in English, read the page as it is.
Every city compared →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 12 everyday questions about Basel cafes and bars and named 45 places. Café Stoa wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How Café Stoa compares
49 of 229 in Basel cafes and bars
Top 21% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: KABAR C, baltazar bar C. Just below: Casanova C, Fass Bar C.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 96% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 43% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 91% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 9% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 17% | no |
The top 10% are the 23 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 WordPress 236,087 sites | 55% | 25% | 62.6% |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kitchen Angel bagel, cake | 541 m | F | no |
| Cinnamood cake | 999 m | F | no |
| Crêperie am Kohlenberg breakfast, savory_pancakes, crepe, tea, cake, coffee_shop, pancake | 1.1 km | F | no |
| Cream Cakery cake | 1.4 km | C | no |
| Bees and Birds Café breakfast, cake, coffee_shop | 3.1 km | F | no |
Businesses like Café Stoa in Basel cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Basel cafes and bars | 229 | 46% | 13% | 62.6% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Basel cafes and bars | 63 | 51% | 21% | 62.6% |
The best of the sites built with WordPress in Basel cafes and bars
Smilla A 90.8% · VIP Bar Basel A 86.2% · dean & david B 84.6% · Pasticceria Steiger B 80% · Perron Bar & Restaurant B 78.5%
After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (Booking through an unrecognised third party; Structured data is incomplete; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 90.8%, which would be first of 229 in Basel cafes and bars.
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 through an unrecognised third party +9 points
Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +6 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
- The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points
Requests as GPTBot (http_429) 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
- 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
- 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 Basel 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.
- Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
Builder: wordpress
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 wordpress.
Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. 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": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
"name": "Café Stoa",
"url": "https://cafestoa.ch/",
"telephone": "+41 77 217 38 71",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Münchensteinerstrasse 1",
"postalCode": "4052",
"addressLocality": "Basel"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 47.5473709,
"longitude": 7.5985407
},
"openingHours": "Mo-We 12:00-17:00; Fr 17:00-22:00; Sa 14:00-22:00; Su 14:00-20:00",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "17:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Friday"
],
"opens": "17:00",
"closes": "22:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Saturday"
],
"opens": "14:00",
"closes": "22:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Sunday"
],
"opens": "14:00",
"closes": "20:00"
}
],
"servesCuisine": [
"cake",
"salad",
"bistro"
],
"hasMenu": "http://cafestoa.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/260831-A5-Mittag-Website.pdf"
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Café Stoa > cafe or coffee shop (cake, salad, bistro) in Münchensteinerstrasse 1 4052 Basel, Basel cafes and bars. Phone +41 77 217 38 71. ## Book or order directly - Menu: http://cafestoa.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/260831-A5-Mittag-Website.pdf ## Opening hours Mo-We 12:00-17:00; Fr 17:00-22:00; Sa 14:00-22:00; Su 14:00-20:00 ## About - Website: https://cafestoa.ch/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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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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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/cafestoa.ch"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/cafestoa.ch.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
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 Café Stoa
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/cafestoa.ch, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/basel-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | cafestoa.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/260831-A5-Mittag-Webs pdf | from the scan |
| Hours | Mo-We 12:00-17:00; Fr 17:00-22:00; Sa 14:00-22:00; Su 14:00-20:00 (closed now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +41 77 217 38 71 |
Stable links that count: /go/cafestoa.ch/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 |
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 | yes |
| 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 |