# Sotto Cucina & Bar: Agent-Direct Score F (37.8%) Site: https://sottorestaurant.london/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/sottorestaurant.london Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Sotto Cucina & Bar is largely invisible to agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by Sotto Cucina & Bar's website. It can read what Sotto Cucina & Bar offers. To book or order, it is sent to TheFork, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Menu: https://sottorestaurant.london/menus/ - Phone: +442081591234 - Address: B, 45 Whitechapel Road, E1 1, London ## Nearby, also direct Places near Sotto Cucina & Bar that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Zoom East Kitchen & Bar (10 m): https://directindex.org/r/summerof.love - The Stable (50 m): https://directindex.org/r/stablepizza.com - The Sushi Bar Brick Lane (120 m): https://directindex.org/r/sushibar.ai - Sushi crunch (120 m): https://directindex.org/r/sushicrunch.co.uk - Baraka Eatery (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/barakaeatery.co.uk ## What to fix first - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Booking only through thefork.** (+12 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (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 - **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended.** (+3.7 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents - **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 ``` robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. ``` # Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them. # Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file. User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Allow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / User-agent: Claude-User Allow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: / ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Sotto Cucina & Bar > local business in B, 45 Whitechapel Road, E1 1, London, London. Phone +442081591234. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://sottorestaurant.london/menus/ ## About - Website: https://sottorestaurant.london/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **TheFork works with agents through its partners.** TheFork's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; TheFork integrated OpenAI's Operator agent for UK bookings in February 2025 and is a named Google AI Mode booking partner. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://itbrief.co.uk/story/thefork-integrates-openai-s-operator-for-uk-bookings. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 6456 of 8985 in London. Top 72% 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 | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 87% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 64% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 37% | no | Nearest places in the index: Zoom East Kitchen & Bar (C, 6 m, https://directindex.org/r/summerof.love); Nanna Biriyani (F, 48 m, https://directindex.org/r/nannabiryani.co.uk); The Stable (C, 50 m, https://directindex.org/r/stablepizza.com); The Sushi Bar Brick Lane (C, 115 m, https://directindex.org/r/sushibar.ai); SUSHINOEN (F, 122 m, https://directindex.org/r/sushinoen.com); Sushi crunch (A, 122 m, https://directindex.org/r/sushicrunch.co.uk); Sonargaon (D, 126 m, https://directindex.org/r/sonargaonrestaurant.co.uk); Mehmet Efendi 1953 (C, 133 m, https://directindex.org/r/mehmetefendi.co.uk); Baraka Eatery (B, 142 m, https://directindex.org/r/barakaeatery.co.uk); Gugsu (F, 145 m, https://directindex.org/r/gugsu.co.uk). ## 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 23 everyday questions about London and named 108 places. Sotto Cucina & Bar wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/london/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236086 sites); Sites using TheFork 65% (40% A or B, 2102 sites); This site 37.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/sottorestaurant.london/agent-view ## Businesses like Sotto Cucina & Bar in London | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in London | 8985 | 54% | 36% | 37.8% | | Sites built with WordPress in London | 2671 | 66% | 48% | 37.8% | | Sites using TheFork in London | 63 | 71% | 59% | 37.8% | | Sites built with WordPress and using TheFork in London | 40 | 74% | 68% | 37.8% | The best of the sites built with WordPress and using TheFork in London: Méli-mélo by Florent Fabulas (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/uk.com); Bengal Village (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/bengalvillagebricklane.co.uk); Mint Leaf London (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/mintleaflondon.com); Bolton's Restaurant (A 90.3%, https://directindex.org/r/boltonsrestaurant.co.uk); Curry Bazaar (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/thefamouscurrybazaar.co.uk). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through thefork; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 89.7%. That would be 687th of 8,985 in London, up from 6456th. ## The direct record What agents get for Sotto Cucina & Bar, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/sottorestaurant.london - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://sottorestaurant.london/menus/ (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +442081591234 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/sottorestaurant.london/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 - Vendor terms for agents, TheFork: Through partners. TheFork's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; TheFork integrated OpenAI's Operator agent for UK bookings in February 2025 and is a named Google AI Mode booking partner. Read 2026-10-15: https://itbrief.co.uk/story/thefork-integrates-openai-s-operator-for-uk-bookings ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 14.6 | 25 | | Readable | 7 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 2 of 5, Bot-Aware. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/sottorestaurant.london - 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: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: yes - 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: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/sottorestaurant.london/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/sottorestaurant.london/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=sottorestaurant.london&force=1