# Bombay Social: Agent-Direct Score F (15.4%)

Site: https://www.thebombaysocial.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/thebombaysocial.com
Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Bombay Social is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants cannot open the website of Bombay Social, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.thebombaysocial.com/_files/ugd/8d9053_392fdb8c1b1846f3a9cdff937a0be851.pdf
- Phone: +44 20 3795 3392

## What to fix first
- **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge); 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
- **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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **Booking only through opentable.** (+9 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
- **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Bombay Social",
  "url": "https://www.thebombaysocial.com/",
  "telephone": "+44 20 3795 3392",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "High Street 44",
    "postalCode": "KT10 9QY",
    "addressLocality": "Esher"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.370045,
    "longitude": -0.3650904
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu-Su 17:30-22:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:30",
      "closes": "22:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "indian"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.thebombaysocial.com/_files/ugd/8d9053_392fdb8c1b1846f3a9cdff937a0be851.pdf"
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then)
- Fixed: The site could not be read at all
- New: The site turned every visitor without a browser away; No structured data for the business; Menu was a PDF; Booking only through a marketplace; Ordering through an unrecognised third party

## Where it stands
2597 of 2933 in London. Top 89% 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% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 88% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 91% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 64% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 27% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Fego (B, 69 m, https://directindex.org/r/hellofego.com); Esher Tandoori (F, 76 m, https://directindex.org/r/esher-tandoori.co.uk); Don Luis (A, 155 m, https://directindex.org/r/pikoteotapas.co.uk); Starling Bistro (C, 177 m, https://directindex.org/r/starlingbistro.co.uk); Sherpa Kitchen (B, 288 m, https://directindex.org/r/sherpakitchen.co.uk); Panshi (D, 1878 m, https://directindex.org/r/orderpanshi.co.uk); Zeitoun Claygate (A, 2061 m, https://directindex.org/r/zeitounclaygate.co.uk); Cinnamon (F, 2193 m, https://directindex.org/r/cinnamonrestauranthersham.co.uk); Full Moon Chinese Restaurant (B, 2206 m, https://directindex.org/r/fullmoonhersham.co.uk); China Chef (C, 2316 m, https://directindex.org/r/chinachefhersham.co.uk).

## 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 built with Wix 58% (35% A or B, 3255 sites); Sites using OpenTable 67% (43% A or B, 1462 sites); This site 15.4%.

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

## Businesses like Bombay Social in London

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in London | 2933 | 57% | 42% | 15.4% |
| Sites built with Wix in London | 218 | 63% | 38% | 15.4% |
| Sites using OpenTable in London | 129 | 64% | 34% | 15.4% |
| Sites built with Wix and using OpenTable in London | 7 | 45% | 0% | 15.4% |

The best of the sites built with Wix and using OpenTable in London: Richoux (C 64.6%, https://directindex.org/r/richoux.co.uk); The Mayfair Chippy (C 64.6%, https://directindex.org/r/mayfairchippy.com); Anima (D 53.8%, https://directindex.org/r/anima.london); Just Meat Smoke & BBQ (D 53.8%, https://directindex.org/r/justmeatsmokeandbbq.com); Loco Mexicano (F 38.5%, https://directindex.org/r/locomexicano.co.uk).

With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; No structured data for the business; Booking only through opentable) the score would be about 90.8%: 166th of 2,933 in London, up from 2597th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Bombay Social, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thebombaysocial.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.thebombaysocial.com/_files/ugd/8d9053_392fdb8c1b1846f3a9cdff937a0be851.pdf (pdf; from the scan)
- Hours: Tu-Su 17:30-22:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +44 20 3795 3392
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thebombaysocial.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 (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no

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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 4 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 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: no

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