# Esquina Cantina: Agent-Direct Score C (62%) Site: https://www.iluvcantina.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/iluvcantina.com Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Esquina Cantina is partly visible to agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by Esquina Cantina's website. It can read what Esquina Cantina offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.iluvcantina.com/menus/ - Phone: +1-412-904-2279 - Address: Butler Street 3720 15201 Pittsburgh - Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Su-Th 17:00-22:00, Fr 17:00-24:00, Sa 15:00-24:00 - Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes ## Nearby, also direct Places near Esquina Cantina that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Mezcal Mexican Cantina (480 m): https://directindex.org/r/mezcalpgh.com - Condado Tacos (560 m): https://directindex.org/r/condadotacos.com - Verde (2.7 km): https://directindex.org/r/verdepgh.com - El Jefes Taqueria (2.8 km): https://directindex.org/r/eljefestaqueria.com - Moe's Southwest Grill (2.8 km): https://directindex.org/r/moes.com ## What to fix first - **Booking only through opentable.** (+9 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (challenge:attention required), ClaudeBot (challenge:attention required) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **The footer says © 2023.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. ## Fix kit: What 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Esquina Cantina > restaurant (mexican) in Butler Street 3720 15201 Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Phone +1-412-904-2279. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.iluvcantina.com/menus/ ## Opening hours Su-Th 17:00-22:00, Fr 17:00-24:00, Sa 15:00-24:00 ## About - Website: https://www.iluvcantina.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 main AI user agents. - **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. ## Where it stands 143 of 250 in Pittsburgh. Top 57% 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% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 100% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 92% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 80% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 28% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Mezcal Mexican Cantina (C, 475 m, https://directindex.org/r/mezcalpgh.com); Condado Tacos (A, 556 m, https://directindex.org/r/condadotacos.com); Baby Loves Tacos (F, 1163 m, https://directindex.org/r/babylovestacospgh.com); Verde (B, 2696 m, https://directindex.org/r/verdepgh.com); El Jefes Taqueria (C, 2838 m, https://directindex.org/r/eljefestaqueria.com); Moe's Southwest Grill (A, 2839 m, https://directindex.org/r/moes.com); Las Palmas (D, 3178 m, https://directindex.org/r/mobile-webview2.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. The assistants were asked 22 everyday questions about Pittsburgh and named 93 places. Esquina Cantina wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/pittsburgh/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 224455 sites); Sites using OpenTable 69% (51% A or B, 6152 sites); This site 62%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/iluvcantina.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Esquina Cantina in Pittsburgh | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Pittsburgh | 250 | 62% | 45% | 62% | | Sites built with WordPress in Pittsburgh | 55 | 67% | 42% | 62% | | Sites using OpenTable in Pittsburgh | 8 | 70% | 75% | 62% | | Sites built with WordPress and using OpenTable in Pittsburgh | 3 | 69% | 67% | 62% | The best of the sites using OpenTable in Pittsburgh: Emerson's (A 89.2%, https://directindex.org/r/emersonsonmarket.com); Spirits and Tales (B 83.1%, https://directindex.org/r/spiritsandtales.com); Casbah (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/casbah.kitchen); Kaya (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/kaya.menu); Buca di Beppo (B 72.5%, https://directindex.org/r/dineatbuca.com). With the three fixes above (Booking only through opentable; Ordering through an unrecognised third party; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 250 in Pittsburgh. ## The direct record What agents get for Esquina Cantina, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/iluvcantina.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.iluvcantina.com/menus/ (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: Su-Th 17:00-22:00, Fr 17:00-24:00, Sa 15:00-24:00 (from OpenStreetMap) - Phone: +1-412-904-2279 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/iluvcantina.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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 18.3 | 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/iluvcantina.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 Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/iluvcantina.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/iluvcantina.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=iluvcantina.com&force=1