The Direct Index
Report · Christchurch cafes and bars · scanned 2026-11-13

Cellar Door

cellardoor.nz is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Cellar Door directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

03 925 8497

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

Places near Cellar Door 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 Cellar Door's website. It can read what Cellar Door offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

73.8%

48 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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 ChatGPT and Gemini for "A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?" in Christchurch cafes and bars, November 2026

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

QuestionNamed byAsked
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?ChatGPT with a link to this site
Gemini with a link to this site
2026-11-14

Every place named in Christchurch cafes and bars, question by question.

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Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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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.

Recommended when people ask:
“A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?” (ChatGPT, Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Cellar Door compares

Where it stands

66 of 272 in Christchurch cafes and bars

Top 24% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Brigittes Sumner B, Cafe and Bar 165 B. Just below: Coffee Supreme B, El Faro Cafe B.

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 HTML86%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours18%no
Have an llms.txt43%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 37,558 sites61%42%73.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Astro Lounge136 mCyes
Boat Shed Cafe international239 mDyes
Doubles328 mCyes
Pegasus Arms349 mByes
Westend Stories cafe, coffee_shop, breakfast, lunch, coffee378 mAyes
Vivace Espresso456 mCyes
Mr Brightside Rooftop Bar489 mDyes
Kong492 mByes
Fat Eddie's493 mCyes
Ilex Café497 mCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Cellar Door in Christchurch cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Christchurch cafes and bars27258%38%73.8%
Sites built with Squarespace in Christchurch cafes and bars3974%62%73.8%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 2nd of 272 in Christchurch cafes and bars, up from 66th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

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

  2. 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 Christchurch 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.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: squarespace · menu page /food-menu: nothing new; booking page /reservations: booking via nowbookit · 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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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