The Crown
thecrown.co.uk is ready for agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Ways to reach The Crown directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. On the business's own site. Report a mistake
New Oxford Street 51 WC1A 1BL London · 01189 472872
Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes, allergens · Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)
Prices: 12 prices on the site, the middle one £20.50
Places near The Crown that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Sandbox VR150 m
- The Bloomsbury Club190 m
- The Coral Room190 m · tea
- Cafe Verona210 m
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Crown's website. It can read what The Crown offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.
62 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 the site tells visitors Measured, not scored
These don't change the grade.
In London, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £12.33.
Every city compared →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.
How The Crown compares
115 of 5,907 in London cafes and bars
Top 2% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Court A, The Crown A. Just below: The Crown A, The Depot A.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 94% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 93% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 50% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 22% | yes |
The top 10% are the 608 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Duda 2,300 sites | 43% | 10% | 95.4% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lever & Bloom Coffee | 43 m | D | no |
| The Bloomsbury | 45 m | D | no |
| Salt & Pepper | 79 m | C | no |
| VIVI Restaurant & Bar | 115 m | D | no |
| Café Babka sandwich | 130 m | F | no |
| Sandbox VR | 145 m | C | yes |
| The Angel | 180 m | F | no |
| The Bloomsbury Club | 191 m | A | yes |
| The Coral Room tea | 194 m | C | yes |
| Cafe Verona | 207 m | B | yes |
Businesses like The Crown in London cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in London cafes and bars | 5,907 | 50% | 30% | 95.4% |
| Sites built with Duda in London cafes and bars | 33 | 43% | 6% | 95.4% |
The best of the sites built with Duda in London cafes and bars
Turners Old Star B 84.6% · Cake Create C 63.1% · Seven Stars C 63.1% · The Lord Southampton C 61.5% · The Royal Standard Oldest Pub in England Free Holding C 61.5%
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.
Nothing to fix
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.
- Structured data found (BarOrPub) address, phone, opening hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
- Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
Builder: duda · Front: cloudflare · menu page /christmas-party: WhatsApp
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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 The Crown
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/thecrown.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/london-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | www.thecrown.co.uk/christmas-party own site | found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | www.thecrown.co.uk/christmas-party html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | 01189 472872 |
Stable links that count: /go/thecrown.co.uk/book, /go/thecrown.co.uk/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 |
Found one hop past the home page: menu page /christmas-party: WhatsApp.
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 | no how |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | yes |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | yes |
| 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 |