The Direct Index
Report · Cape Town · scanned 2026-10-24

The Sidewalk Cafe

sidewalk.co.za is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach The Sidewalk Cafe directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

33 Derry St, 8001, Cape Town · +27214612839

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Sidewalk Cafe that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open The Sidewalk Cafe's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

61.5%

40 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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 Cape Town and named 98 places. The Sidewalk Cafe wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How The Sidewalk Cafe compares

Where it stands

Not ranked yet in Cape Town

The ranking updates every hour. This site joins it at the next update.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML91%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours38%no
Have an llms.txt42%yes

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 251,601 sites55%24%61.5%

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Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Cape Town. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · booking page /south-africans-returning-home-overseas-dream/: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

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Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

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