# Relish Restaurant & Bar: Agent-Direct Score D (41.5%)

Site: https://www.relishrestauranthoustontx.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/relishrestauranthoustontx.com
Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Relish Restaurant & Bar is hard for agents to use.
AI assistants cannot open the website of Relish Restaurant & Bar, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Order directly: https://www.toasttab.com/relish-wine-merchant-2810-westheimer-rd-irjxq/giftcards (through toast acting for the business)
- Phone: (713) 489-2590

## What to fix first
- **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (http_403); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **Menu or price list lives on another site.** (+5 points) The link points to relishhouston.com, so the credit and the traffic go there. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **Booking only through opentable.** (+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

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **Structured data present (LocalBusiness).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Ordering through toast on your own domain.** No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
- **Toast works with agents through its partners.** Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

## Where it stands
403 of 607 in Houston. Top 66% 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 | 97% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 85% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 61% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Jaxton's World Flavors (F, 148 m, https://directindex.org/r/jaxtonsworldflavors.com); Hobbit Cafe (C, 1181 m, https://directindex.org/r/hobbitcafehtx.com); Nobie's (C, 1343 m, https://directindex.org/r/nobieshtx.com); Empire Cafe (C, 1710 m, https://directindex.org/r/empirecafe.com); Sixty Vines (A, 3048 m, https://directindex.org/r/sixtyvines.com); Katz's (B, 3073 m, https://directindex.org/r/katzsneverkloses.com); The Buffalo Grille (A, 3170 m, https://directindex.org/r/thebuffalogrille.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 using OpenTable 66% (40% A or B, 1647 sites); Sites using Toast 72% (58% A or B, 2267 sites); This site 41.5%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/relishrestauranthoustontx.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Relish Restaurant & Bar in Houston

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Houston | 607 | 53% | 39% | 41.5% |
| Sites using OpenTable in Houston | 12 | 69% | 58% | 41.5% |

The best of the sites using OpenTable in Houston: Casa do Brasil (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/casadobrasil.com); Red Lion Pub (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/theredlionhouston.com); Steak 48 (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/steak48.com); Exodus Bar and Grill (B 81.5%, https://directindex.org/r/exodusbarandgrill.com); Chimichurri's (B 78.5%, https://directindex.org/r/chimichurrisgrill.com).

With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; Menu or price list lives on another site; Booking only through opentable) the score would be about 95.4%: 20th of 607 in Houston, up from 403rd.

## The direct record
What agents get for Relish Restaurant & Bar, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/relishrestauranthoustontx.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: https://www.toasttab.com/relish-wine-merchant-2810-westheimer-rd-irjxq/giftcards (vendor on own site: Toast; found by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested)
- Menu: https://www.relishhouston.com/menus/ (external; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: (713) 489-2590
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/relishrestauranthoustontx.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/relishrestauranthoustontx.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 (Toast): yes
- Vendor terms for agents, Toast: Through partners. Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got http_403); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 17 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/relishrestauranthoustontx.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/relishrestauranthoustontx.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=relishrestauranthoustontx.com&force=1