The Direct Index
Report · London · scanned 2026-10-21

The Darjeeling

thedarjeelingindian.co.uk is hard for agents to use.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookOrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach The Darjeeling directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Lee High Road 134 SE13 5PR London · 020 8473 8222

Prices: 7 prices on the site, the middle one £15.95

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Darjeeling that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by The Darjeeling's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

52.8%

34.3 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

7 prices on the landing page, the middle one £15.95.

In London, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £11.95.

Every city compared →
Assistants

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 13 everyday questions about London and named 66 places. The Darjeeling wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How The Darjeeling compares

Where it stands

5,251 of 8,985 in London

Top 58% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Lane Kitchen D, Pescobar Seafood London D. Just below: Two More Years D, WoW BBQ D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML87%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours64%no
Have an llms.txt37%yes

The top 10% are the 915 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 236,087 sites55%25%52.8%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Spice of Life indian487 mByes
Saka Maka indian1.0 kmFno
The Saffron Club indian, nepalese1.1 kmCyes
Bengal Brasserie indian1.2 kmAyes
Taste Of Raj indian1.2 kmFno
The Khans indian1.2 kmByes
Everest Inn indian, nepalese1.2 kmByes
Monsoon indian1.6 kmByes
Peninsula indian, malaysian1.7 kmByes
Nazran's Indian Cuisine indian2.0 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Darjeeling in London

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in London8,98554%36%52.8%
Sites built with WordPress in London2,67166%48%52.8%

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After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No menu or price list found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 187th of 8,985 in London, up from 5251st.

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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 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. How to fix it

  2. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it

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

    Requests as ClaudeBot (http_429), PerplexityBot (http_429) 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. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in London. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /contact-us/: nothing new; booking page /book-a-table/: nothing new

Fix kit

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 wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "The Darjeeling",
  "url": "http://Thedarjeelingindian.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "020 8473 8222",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Lee High Road 134",
    "postalCode": "SE13 5PR",
    "addressLocality": "London"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.4597265,
    "longitude": -0.0041939
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "indian"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.thedarjeelingindian.co.uk/book-a-table/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.thedarjeelingindian.co.uk/book-a-table/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.thedarjeelingindian.co.uk/order-online/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

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If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thedarjeelingindian.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thedarjeelingindian.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

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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The direct record

What agents get for The Darjeeling

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/thedarjeelingindian.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/london/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.thedarjeelingindian.co.uk/book-a-table/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Orderwww.thedarjeelingindian.co.uk/order-online/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone020 8473 8222

Agents and people followed 4 direct links to this business this month (0 by AI agents).

Stable links that count: /go/thedarjeelingindian.co.uk/book, /go/thedarjeelingindian.co.uk/order 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.

Transactable

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
Agent readiness

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 homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
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 businessno