Report · Bristol cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-24

Grain Barge

grainbarge.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

Ways to reach Grain Barge directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Through designmynight acting for the business. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Thu 12:00–23:00 · Fri 12:00–23:30 · Sat closed · Sun 12:00–22:00

BS8 4RU Bristol · +44 117 9299347

Nearby, also direct

Places near Grain Barge that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

GAIL's640 m
BrewDog690 m
Lane7710 m
The Albion740 m
Slug & Lettuce750 m

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Grain Barge's website. It can read what Grain Barge offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through DesignMyNight.

C42 of 65 · partly visible to agentsThe Direct Index · 2026-10-24

64.6%

42 of 65 points available

1/5

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.

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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.

Where it stands

How Grain Barge compares

Where it stands

57 of 144 in Bristol cafes and bars

Top 40% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Boston Tea Party C, Ritorno Lounge C. Just below: Budapest Cafe C, Fishponds Tap C.

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	93%	yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)	80%	yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours	53%	no
Have an llms.txt	27%	no

The top 10% are the 15 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 224,455 sites	55%	24%	64.6%
Sites using DesignMyNight 571 sites	77%	70%	64.6%

Nearest places in the index

Place	Distance	Grade	Direct booking or ordering
GAIL's	643 m	A	yes
BrewDog	693 m	B	yes
Lane7	714 m	B	yes
The Albion	737 m	B	yes
Slug & Lettuce	750 m	A	yes
East Village coffee_shop	759 m	B	no
Primrose Café	782 m	C	no
The Brass Pig	803 m	B	yes
Tobacco Factory	805 m	C	yes
St. George's	813 m	C	no

Businesses like yours

Businesses like Grain Barge in Bristol cafes and bars

Group	Sites	Avg score	A or B	This site
Businesses of the same kind in Bristol cafes and bars	144	57%	33%	64.6%
Sites built with WordPress in Bristol cafes and bars	49	58%	33%	64.6%
Sites using DesignMyNight in Bristol cafes and bars	4	71%	25%	64.6%
Sites built with WordPress and using DesignMyNight in Bristol cafes and bars	2	63%	0%	64.6%

The best of the sites using DesignMyNight in Bristol cafes and bars

The Old Fish Market A 95.4% · Tobacco Factory C 63.1% · Brozen Bar C 61.5%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 9th of 144 in Bristol cafes and bars, up from 57th.

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

No structured data for the business +15 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
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 Bristol 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 through designmynight on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /about/: nothing new; menu page /food-and-drink/: answered 503

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 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": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Grain Barge",
  "url": "https://grainbarge.com/",
  "telephone": "+44 117 9299347",
  "email": "gb@bristolbeerfactory.co.uk",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "postalCode": "BS8 4RU",
    "addressLocality": "Bristol"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.4494272,
    "longitude": -2.6122559
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Th 12:00-23:00; Fr 12:00-23:30; Su 12:00-22:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "23:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://widgets.designmynight.com/bookings-partner.min.js",
  "hasMenu": "https://grainbarge.com/food-and-drink/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://widgets.designmynight.com/bookings-partner.min.js",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Grain Barge

> bar or pub in BS8 4RU Bristol, Bristol cafes and bars. Phone +44 117 9299347.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://widgets.designmynight.com/bookings-partner.min.js (through designmynight acting for the business)
- Menu: https://grainbarge.com/food-and-drink/

## Opening hours

Mo-Th 12:00-23:00; Fr 12:00-23:30; Su 12:00-22:00

## About

- Website: https://grainbarge.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.

Owners

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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/grainbarge.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/grainbarge.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>

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 Grain Barge

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/grainbarge.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/bristol-cafes-bars/direct.json.

Path	Link	Status
Book	widgets.designmynight.com/bookings-partner.min.js vendor on own site: DesignMyNight	found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Order	none on record
Menu	grainbarge.com/food-and-drink/ html_page	from the scan
Hours	Mo-Th 12:00-23:00; Fr 12:00-23:30; Su 12:00-22:00 (closed now)	from OpenStreetMap
Phone	+44 117 9299347

Stable links that count: /go/grainbarge.com/book, /go/grainbarge.com/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 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	no