Spiced Roots
spicedroots.com is partly visible to agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
Ways to reach Spiced Roots directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Report a mistake
Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Fri 17:30–23:00 · Sat 13:00–16:30, 17:30–23:00 · Sun closed
Cowley Road 64 OX4 1JB Oxford · +44 1865 249888
Places near Spiced Roots that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Dosa Darlings10 m · indian
- Arbequina30 m · tapas
- 7 Gates Damascus Cafe50 m · syrian
- Shiraz Restaurant60 m · persian
- Tender Coconut70 m · indian
The website's grade
Some AI assistants are turned away by Spiced Roots's website. It can read what Spiced Roots offers. To book or order, it is sent to TheFork, a marketplace.
43 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
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 Oxford and named 87 places. Spiced Roots wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How Spiced Roots compares
137 of 217 in Oxford
Top 63% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Cosy Club C, Pan Pan C. Just below: Shoryu C, Bbuona Pinsa Bar C.
| 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 | 100% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 64% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 23% | no |
The top 10% are the 22 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites using TheFork 2,017 sites | 65% | 39% | 66.2% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dosa Darlings indian, curry, south_indian | 14 m | A | yes |
| Arbequina tapas, spanish | 25 m | A | yes |
| 7 Gates Damascus Cafe syrian | 54 m | A | yes |
| Shiraz Restaurant persian | 62 m | B | yes |
| Mint Kitchen And Lounge lebanese, mediterranean | 66 m | F | no |
| Il Principe Delicatessen italian | 68 m | D | no |
| Tender Coconut indian, south_indian | 74 m | C | yes |
| Sushi Corner japanese, sushi | 115 m | B | yes |
| Tribe indian, chinese, asian | 150 m | C | no |
| Restaurant Moya slovak, european | 151 m | D | no |
Businesses like Spiced Roots in Oxford
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Oxford | 217 | 68% | 55% | 66.2% |
| Sites using TheFork in Oxford | 2 | 66% | 0% | 66.2% |
The best of the businesses of the same kind in Oxford
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After the top fixes
With the two fixes above (Booking only through thefork; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 217 in Oxford.
Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.
What to fix first
- 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. How to fix it About this vendor
- robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User +10 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. How to fix it
- 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. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in Oxford. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.
Already right
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
- Structured data found (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
- 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.
Builder: unknown
What to paste
Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on your builder.
Show the code to paste
robots.txt
Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.
# 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. Guide.
# Spiced Roots > restaurant (caribbean) in Cowley Road 64 OX4 1JB Oxford, Oxford. Phone +44 1865 249888. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.spicedroots.com/menu ## Opening hours Mo-Fr 17:30-23:00; Sa 13:00-16:30,17:30-23:00 ## About - Website: https://spicedroots.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/spicedroots.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/spicedroots.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
What agents get, and what the site publishes
The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
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What agents get for Spiced Roots
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/spicedroots.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/oxford/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | www.spicedroots.com/menu html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | Mo-Fr 17:30-23:00; Sa 13:00-16:30,17:30-23:00 (closed now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +44 1865 249888 |
Stable links that count: /go/spicedroots.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.
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 TheFork, read 2026-10-15 | 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. Source. About TheFork · all vendors.
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |