The Direct Index
Report · Brussels · scanned 2026-10-18

Maharaja

maharajatandoori.com is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

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The direct ways to reach Maharaja, no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-18. Through zenchef acting for the business. Something wrong? Report it

Prices: 116 prices on the site, the middle one €6.00 · Languages: English, French, Dutch

Cette page en français · Deze pagina in het Nederlands

Owners

The website, graded

Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of Maharaja. It can read what Maharaja offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Zenchef.

71.8%

46.7 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

116 prices on the landing page, the middle one €6.00.

In Brussels, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is €14.90.

Every city compared →
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

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.

Asked 13 everyday questions about Brussels, the assistants named 67 places; Maharaja was not among them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Maharaja compares

Where it stands

550 of 1,568 in Brussels

Top 35% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Woodiz B, Yamayu Santatsu B. Just below: Dea's Pizza B, Bagheera B.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours94%no
Have an llms.txt3%yes

The top tenth is the 159 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 68,857 sites58%30%71.8%
Sites using Zenchef 1,272 sites74%59%71.8%
Sites using Just Eat 1,457 sites53%10%71.8%

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Kabuki japanese60 mCyes
The Avocado Show theme64 mDno
The Brasserie regional66 mCyes
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Umamido japanese91 mCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Maharaja in Brussels

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Brussels1,56858%36%71.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Brussels50864%41%71.8%
Sites using Zenchef in Brussels6771%52%71.8%
Sites built with WordPress and using Zenchef in Brussels3168%48%71.8%

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Zenchef in Brussels

Sushi's Stockel A 89.2% · Arion Café A 87.7% · Tourane A 86.2% · Umā B 78.5% · Au Grand Forestier B 76.9%

The climb

With the three fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; Ordering only through justeat; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door) the score would be about 95.4%: 158th of 1,568 in Brussels, up from 550th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  2. Ordering only through justeat +5 points

    Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points

    Live fetches as GPTBot (http_429) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Brussels. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about-us/: booking via thefork; menu page /our-menu/: 58 prices; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.

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)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Maharaja",
  "url": "http://www.maharajatandoori.com/",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 50.848369,
    "longitude": 4.3505687
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "pakistani"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://bookings.zenchef.com/results?rid=387590&#038;pid=1001&#038;lang=en",
  "hasMenu": "https://maharajatandoori.com/our-menu/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://bookings.zenchef.com/results?rid=387590&#038;pid=1001&#038;lang=en",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Maharaja

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/maharajatandoori.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/brussels/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookbookings.zenchef.com/results?rid=387590&#038;pid=1001&#038;l vendor on own site: Zencheffound by the scan of 2026-10-18, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menumaharajatandoori.com/our-menu/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/maharajatandoori.com/book, /go/maharajatandoori.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
Zenchef, read 2026-10-15
Through partners

Zenchef's website terms (19 February 2024) forbid robots, scripts or automated systems that extract content and forbid crawling or scraping; agents book only through partner integrations a restaurant enables. Source. About Zenchef · all vendors.

Found one hop past the home page: contact page /about-us/: booking via thefork; menu page /our-menu/: 58 prices.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes