# Left Bank: Agent-Direct Score B (83.1%) Site: https://www.leftbanknewyork.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/leftbanknewyork.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.) Left Bank is mostly ready for agents. An AI assistant can open the website of Left Bank. It can read what Left Bank offers. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=leftbanknewyork.com (through bentobox acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.leftbanknewyork.com/menu/ - Phone: +1-212-727-1170 ## What to fix first - **Booking only through resy.** (+5 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 - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+3 points) Missing: 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. ``` # Left Bank > restaurant (american) in Perry Street 117, New York. Phone +1-212-727-1170. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=leftbanknewyork.com (through bentobox acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.leftbanknewyork.com/menu/ ## Opening hours Mo, Tu 17:00-22:00; We-Fr 17:00-23:00; Sa 10:00-23:00; Su 10:00-22:00 ## About - Website: https://www.leftbanknewyork.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 (FoodEstablishment).** address, phone - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly. - **Ordering through bentobox on your own domain.** No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours. ## Where it stands 754 of 3788 in New York. Top 20% 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% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 99% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 48% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 14% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Anton's (A, 103 m, https://directindex.org/r/antonsnyc.com); Bus Stop Cafe (B, 220 m, https://directindex.org/r/busstopcafe-nyc.com); North Fork (C, 244 m, https://directindex.org/r/northforknyc.com); Red Paper Clip (C, 247 m, https://directindex.org/r/redpaperclip.nyc); Cleo (C, 334 m, https://directindex.org/r/cleodowntown.com); Tavern on Jane (C, 405 m, https://directindex.org/r/tavernonjane.com); The Waverly Inn (F, 434 m, https://directindex.org/r/waverlynyc.com); Sip & Guzzle (C, 553 m, https://directindex.org/r/sipandguzzlenyc.com); Blue Hill (D, 699 m, https://directindex.org/r/bluehillfarm.com); Cove (C, 732 m, https://directindex.org/r/cove-nyc.com). ## 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 BentoBox 84% (96% A or B, 951 sites); Sites using Resy 69% (48% A or B, 600 sites); Sites using BentoBox 83% (93% A or B, 357 sites); This site 83.1%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/leftbanknewyork.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Left Bank in New York | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York | 3788 | 55% | 41% | 83.1% | | Sites built with BentoBox in New York | 278 | 86% | 96% | 83.1% | | Sites using Resy in New York | 274 | 68% | 46% | 83.1% | | Sites built with BentoBox and using Resy in New York | 37 | 84% | 97% | 83.1% | The best of the sites built with BentoBox and using Resy in New York: Verde (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/verdeonsmith.com); Arden (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/ardenbk.com); Motorino (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/motorinony.com); Smør (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/smornyc.com); Brado Thin Crust Pizza (A 89.2%, https://directindex.org/r/nycthincrust.com). With the two fixes above (Booking only through resy; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 65th of 3,788 in New York, up from 754th. ## The direct record What agents get for Left Bank, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/leftbanknewyork.com - Book: none on record - Order: https://getbento.com/?utm_source=header&utm_campaign=leftbanknewyork.com (vendor on own site: BentoBox; found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested) - Menu: https://www.leftbanknewyork.com/menu/ (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: Mo, Tu 17:00-22:00; We-Fr 17:00-23:00; Sa 10:00-23:00; Su 10:00-22:00 (open now) (from OpenStreetMap) - Phone: +1-212-727-1170 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/leftbanknewyork.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/leftbanknewyork.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 - Vendor terms for agents, BentoBox: Not stated. BentoBox's terms (last updated 5 January 2023) bar automated means such as spiders, robots and crawlers to download or scrape data, except search engines and public archives; they do not address an agent making a reservation for a person, and no agent programme was found. Read 2026-10-15: https://getbento.com/terms Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 19 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 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/leftbanknewyork.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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md) - 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/leftbanknewyork.com/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/leftbanknewyork.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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=leftbanknewyork.com&force=1