The Direct Index
Report · london cafes bars · scanned 2026-10-14

Star in Shoreditch

starinshoreditch.co.uk is mostly ready for agents.

Book directly: starinshoreditch.co.uk/late-nights/ on the business's own site · Menu: starinshoreditch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SIS-Cockta

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B
71.2%

46.3 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points

    Live fetches as GPTBot (http_429), ClaudeBot (http_429) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  3. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

  4. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in London cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Star in Shoreditch",
  "url": "https://starinshoreditch.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+44 20 7129 8137",
  "email": "info@starinshoreditch.co.uk",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Old Street 243",
    "postalCode": "EC1V 9EY",
    "addressLocality": "London"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.526571,
    "longitude": -0.0841847
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu-We 16:00-00:00; Th-Sa 16:00-04:00; Su 20:00-00:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday"
      ],
      "opens": "16:00",
      "closes": "00:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "16:00",
      "closes": "04:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "20:00",
      "closes": "00:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://starinshoreditch.co.uk/late-nights/",
  "hasMenu": "https://starinshoreditch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SIS-Cocktail-Menu-Spring-2026.pdf",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://starinshoreditch.co.uk/late-nights/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Star in Shoreditch

> bar or pub in Old Street 243 EC1V 9EY London, London cafes and bars. Phone +44 20 7129 8137.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://starinshoreditch.co.uk/late-nights/ (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://starinshoreditch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SIS-Cocktail-Menu-Spring-2026.pdf

## Opening hours

Tu-We 16:00-00:00; Th-Sa 16:00-04:00; Su 20:00-00:00

## About

- Website: https://starinshoreditch.co.uk/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

865 of 2,869 in London cafes and bars

Top 30% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Cafe 108 B, The Town of Ramsgate B. Just below: The Star by Hackney Downs B, Wolfy's B.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)95%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours56%no
Have an llms.txt13%no

The top tenth is the 291 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 35,830 sites57%26%71.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Brush57 mCno
Trapeze Bar108 mByes
NQ64 Arcade Bar - Shoreditch american109 mDno
The Princess of Shoreditch137 mByes
The Reliance191 mDno
Photobook cafe225 mCno
Kybelle232 mAyes
Found240 mCyes
Old Street Records240 mByes
Nightjar247 mAyes
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

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Agent-Direct Score B

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