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title: What an AI agent reads on Hercules Pillars · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/herculespillars.co.uk/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on Hercules Pillars

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. This is that view of [herculespillars.co.uk](http://www.herculespillars.co.uk/), from the copy the scanner kept.

17,557

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

2

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (GPTBot, ClaudeBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Home | The Hercules Pillars · language en-GB. First 1,800 of 17,557 characters:

```
Home | The Hercules Pillars Menus Happy Hour Sport Events Gallery Christmas Private Hire Book Now Book Now Three centuries on Great Queen Street, Holborn The Hercules Pillars Named for the mythological gateway at the edge of the known world, The Hercules Pillars has kept its place between Holborn and Covent Garden since 1703. A Cask Marque bar watched over by a gilded Hercules, two minutes from the station. Reserve a TableView Our Menus Real ale, Sunday roasts, live sport, and a room for a hundred UNCHANGED & UNMATCHED Walk in and the first thing you notice is that nothing is trying too hard. The classical columns dividing the bar have been here since before the current building went up in 1961. The wooden furnishings carry the kind of wear that takes decades to accumulate honestly. The function room holds up to a hundred people, the bar is stocked for whatever the evening requires, and the staff have been looking after this street long enough to know exactly what you need before you ask. Heroically priced Happy Hour in central London, every weekday from four Happy Hour in Holborn Clock off at four and let the labours end there. Until seven, two for one on cocktails, gin and tonics and stone baked pizza, cask ale at a price from another era, prosecco by the bottle. Mondays extend the kindness to the cocktail list, all evening. Settle into a room that predates the Georgians, catch the Premier League, and let Covent Garden carry on without you. Pubs with happy hours are common. Ones like this are not. More details Food, drink, and sport how it should be YOUR PUB IN HOLBORN FOR EVERY OCCASION Whether you are here for a weekday lunch, a stonebaked pizza and a cocktail after work, or a table for the Premier League on a Saturday afternoon, the kitchen runs until nine and the
```

 Facts

## What it can state about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | 020 7242 2218 (a tel: link, not structured) |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | a menu or price-list page in HTML www.herculespillars.co.uk/#menus/ |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 1 (BreadcrumbList, EntryPoint, ListItem, PropertyValueSpecification, ReadAction, SearchAction) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

| Link | Role | Where it goes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [bookings.designmynight.com/book?venue_id=536b99126c4f0611087e0709&sour](https://bookings.designmynight.com/book?venue_id=536b99126c4f0611087e0709&source=partner&type=53636edb0df6901e62fc9323) | booking | designmynight, acting for the business |

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```json
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```