# Christie's Seafood & Steaks: Agent-Direct Score D (53.8%)

Site: http://Christies-restaurant.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/christies-restaurant.com
Scanned: 2026-10-25 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Christie's Seafood & Steaks is hard for agents to use.
AI assistants can't open Christie's Seafood & Steaks's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://widgets.resy.com/embed.js (through resy acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.christies-restaurant.com/full-menu
- Phone: +1 713-978-6563
- Address: Westheimer Road 6029 Houston

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Christie's Seafood & Steaks that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Fat Crab (420 m): https://directindex.org/r/fatcrabhouston.com
- Truluck's (1.9 km): https://directindex.org/r/trulucks.com
- Caracol (2.7 km): https://directindex.org/r/caracol.net
- Landry's, Inc. (3.6 km): https://directindex.org/r/landrysinc.com

## What to fix first
- **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- **Structured data found (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.
- **Booking through resy on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- **Resy works with agents through its partners.** Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-23 (D then)
- Fixed: nothing
- New: nothing

## Where it stands
1429 of 2664 in Houston. Top 54% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 97% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 93% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 72% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 53% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Fat Crab (A, 415 m, https://directindex.org/r/fatcrabhouston.com); Cordua Restaurants (F, 629 m, https://directindex.org/r/cordua.com); Truluck's (A, 1931 m, https://directindex.org/r/trulucks.com); Southwest Seafood (F, 2318 m, https://directindex.org/r/swseafood.com); Caracol (A, 2710 m, https://directindex.org/r/caracol.net); King Ranch Texas Kitchen (B, 3257 m, https://directindex.org/r/kingranchtexaskitchen.com); Willie G's Seafood (B, 3525 m, https://directindex.org/r/williegs.com); Landry's, Inc. (C, 3611 m, https://directindex.org/r/landrysinc.com); McCormick & Schmick's (F, 3704 m, https://directindex.org/r/mccormickandschmicks.com).

## What assistants answer
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 traditional local restaurant that tourists don't know. Book me a table for Saturday." (Gemini)


Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-23: 2026-10-23 54%, 2026-10-25 54%.

Compared with its peers: Sites built with Popmenu 75% (67% A or B, 728 sites); Sites using Resy 67% (44% A or B, 2836 sites); This site 53.8%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/christies-restaurant.com/agent-view

## Named by Gemini for "A traditional local restaurant that tourists don't know. Book me a table for Saturday" in Houston, October 2026
- "A traditional local restaurant that tourists don't know. Book me a table for Saturday." (2026-10-16): Gemini with a link to this site. https://directindex.org/city/houston/recommended/local-saturday
Named by 1 of 2 assistants asked. Badge: https://directindex.org/badge/named/christies-restaurant.com.svg

## Businesses like Christie's Seafood & Steaks in Houston

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Houston | 2664 | 54% | 35% | 53.8% |
| Sites built with Popmenu in Houston | 83 | 85% | 73% | 53.8% |
| Sites using Resy in Houston | 42 | 67% | 48% | 53.8% |
| Sites built with Popmenu and using Resy in Houston | 5 | 82% | 60% | 53.8% |

The best of the sites built with Popmenu and using Resy in Houston: Boheme (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/barboheme.com); Cellar 7 (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/cellar7htx.com); District 7 Grill (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/district7grill.com); Triola's Kitchen (D 53.8%, https://directindex.org/r/triolaskitchen.com).

With the fix above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included), the score would be about 92.3%. That would be 180th of 2,664 in Houston, up from 1429th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Christie's Seafood & Steaks, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/christies-restaurant.com
- Book: https://widgets.resy.com/embed.js (vendor on own site: Resy; found by the scan of 2026-10-25, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.christies-restaurant.com/full-menu (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +1 713-978-6563
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/christies-restaurant.com/book, https://directindex.org/go/christies-restaurant.com/menu

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- 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, Resy: Through partners. Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Read 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 25 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/christies-restaurant.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/christies-restaurant.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=christies-restaurant.com&force=1