# Forbidden Root Restaurant & Brewery: Agent-Direct Score B (72.3%) Site: https://www.forbiddenroot.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/forbiddenroot.com Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.) Forbidden Root Restaurant & Brewery is mostly ready for agents. ## Direct links - Menu: https://forbiddenroot.com/restaurants/restaurant-brewery#dinner-menu - Phone: +1-312-929-2202 ## What to fix first - **Booking only through opentable.** (+9 points) Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Forbidden Root Restaurant & Brewery > bar or pub in West Chicago Avenue 1746 60622 Chicago, Chicago cafes and bars. Phone +1-312-929-2202. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://forbiddenroot.com/restaurants/restaurant-brewery#dinner-menu ## About - Website: https://www.forbiddenroot.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response. - **Structured data present (Organization).** but without address, phone or hours - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly. ## Where it stands 200 of 810 in Chicago cafes and bars. Top 25% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 98% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 33% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 21% | no | Nearest places in the index: SOL Chicago (B, 181 m, https://directindex.org/r/solchicago.com); Beatnik (A, 318 m, https://directindex.org/r/beatnikchicago.com); Golden Years (F, 385 m, https://directindex.org/r/srisanjeevniedu.com); Mano Modern Cafe (F, 403 m, https://directindex.org/r/manomoderncafe.com); Standing Passengers (F, 565 m, https://directindex.org/r/agentjudibola-online.com); Output Lounge & Sports Bar (A, 568 m, https://directindex.org/r/outputchicago.com); Beauty Bar Chicago (C, 613 m, https://directindex.org/r/beautybarchicago.com); Plenty Goods Cafe (C, 617 m, https://directindex.org/r/plentygoods.com); Alliance Bakery (B, 634 m, https://directindex.org/r/alliancebakery.com); Lemon (C, 647 m, https://directindex.org/r/lemonchicago.net). ## What assistants answer Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included. Against its peers: Sites built with WordPress 58% (28% A or B, 36794 sites); Sites using OpenTable 67% (42% A or B, 1440 sites); This site 72.3%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/forbiddenroot.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Forbidden Root Restaurant & Brewery in Chicago cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Same kind in Chicago cafes and bars | 810 | 48% | 28% | 72.3% | | Built with WordPress in Chicago cafes and bars | 189 | 62% | 33% | 72.3% | | Using OpenTable in Chicago cafes and bars | 16 | 75% | 69% | 72.3% | | Built with WordPress and using OpenTable in Chicago cafes and bars | 5 | 72% | 60% | 72.3% | The best of Built with WordPress and using OpenTable in Chicago cafes and bars: Replay (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/replayandersonville.com); The Berkshire Room (B 82.6%, https://directindex.org/r/theberkshireroom.com); Little Toasted (C 61.1%, https://directindex.org/r/littletoasted.com); Three Dots and a Dash (C 56.9%, https://directindex.org/r/threedotschicago.com). With the three fixes above (Booking only through opentable; Ordering through an unrecognised third party; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 100%: first of 810 in Chicago cafes and bars. ## The direct record What agents get for Forbidden Root Restaurant & Brewery, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/forbiddenroot.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://forbiddenroot.com/restaurants/restaurant-brewery#dinner-menu (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +1-312-929-2202 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/forbiddenroot.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): not measured - ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): not measured - 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): not measured Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 16 | 25 | | Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/forbiddenroot.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: yes Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/forbiddenroot.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=forbiddenroot.com&force=1