# Malt House Cellars: Agent-Direct Score C (69.2%) Site: http://www.malthousecellar.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/malthousecellar.com Scanned: 2026-11-14 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Malt House Cellars is partly visible to agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by Malt House Cellars's website. It can read what Malt House Cellars offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://malthousecellar.com/venue-closure-booking-notes/ (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://malthousecellar.com/about/#menus - Phone: (314) 241-4949 - Address: 2017 Chouteau Ave, St Louis 63103 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Malt House Cellars that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Planter's House (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/plantershousestl.com - Park Avenue Coffee (430 m): https://directindex.org/r/parkavenuecoffee.com - The Pitch (970 m): https://directindex.org/r/thepitch-stl.com - Maggie O'Brien's (970 m): https://directindex.org/r/maggieobriens.com - The Grand Hall (1 km): https://directindex.org/r/stlouisunionstation.com ## What to fix first - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+10 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403), PerplexityBot (http_403) 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.** (+7 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 ## 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. ``` # Malt House Cellars > organization in 2017 Chouteau Ave, St Louis 63103, St. Louis cafes and bars. Phone (314) 241-4949. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://malthousecellar.com/venue-closure-booking-notes/ (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://malthousecellar.com/about/#menus ## About - Website: http://www.malthousecellar.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.** There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed. - **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. - **Booking on your own site.** Agents can book without going through a marketplace. ## Where it stands 85 of 266 in St. Louis cafes and bars. Top 32% 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 | 96% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 44% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 33% | no | Nearest places in the index: Winnie's Wine Bar (C, 70 m, https://directindex.org/r/winnieswinebar.com); Rhone Rum Bar (F, 84 m, https://directindex.org/r/rhonerumbar.com); Planter's House (F, 108 m, https://directindex.org/r/plantershousestl.com); Arcelia's Comida Autentica (F, 418 m, https://directindex.org/r/arcelias.com); Pop (C, 423 m, https://directindex.org/r/popstlouis.com); Park Avenue Coffee (B, 431 m, https://directindex.org/r/parkavenuecoffee.com); 33 Wine Shop and Bar (F, 446 m, https://directindex.org/r/33wine.com); The Pitch (B, 971 m, https://directindex.org/r/thepitch-stl.com); Maggie O'Brien's (A, 973 m, https://directindex.org/r/maggieobriens.com); The Grand Hall (D, 1001 m, https://directindex.org/r/stlouisunionstation.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 12 everyday questions about St. Louis cafes and bars and named 56 places. Malt House Cellars wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/st-louis-cafes-bars/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 270003 sites); This site 69.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/malthousecellar.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Malt House Cellars in St. Louis cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in St. Louis cafes and bars | 266 | 54% | 31% | 69.2% | | Sites built with WordPress in St. Louis cafes and bars | 50 | 56% | 16% | 69.2% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in St. Louis cafes and bars: Blackthorn Pub and Pizza (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/blackthornstl.com); Bootleggin' Tavern (B 78.5%, https://directindex.org/r/bootlegginbbq.com); SweetArt Bakeshop + Café (B 78.5%, https://directindex.org/r/sweetartstl.com); The Pitch (B 78.5%, https://directindex.org/r/thepitch-stl.com); Brew Tulum (B 75.4%, https://directindex.org/r/brewtulum.com). With the two fixes above (The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 5th of 266 in St. Louis cafes and bars, up from 85th. ## The direct record What agents get for Malt House Cellars, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/malthousecellar.com - Book: https://malthousecellar.com/venue-closure-booking-notes/ (own site; found by the scan of 2026-11-14, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: https://malthousecellar.com/about/#menus (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: (314) 241-4949 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/malthousecellar.com/book, https://directindex.org/go/malthousecellar.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 | 15 | 25 | | Readable | 15 | 25 | | Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/malthousecellar.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/malthousecellar.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/malthousecellar.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=malthousecellar.com&force=1