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title: What an AI agent reads on The Formosa Cafe · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/theformosacafe.com/agent-view?format=md
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# What an AI agent reads on The Formosa Cafe

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. This is that view of [theformosacafe.com](https://theformosacafe.com/), from the copy the scanner kept.

3,147

characters of text without JavaScript

Restaurant

structured data for the business

0

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: The Formosa Cafe - Best Chinese Restaurant in West Hollywood and Los Angeles · language en-US. First 1,800 of 3,147 characters:

```
The Formosa Cafe - Best Chinese Restaurant in West Hollywood and Los Angeles About History About Events Location Menu Blog MERCH Catering FAQ RESERVATIONS About History About Events Location Menu Blog MERCH Catering FAQ RESERVATIONS ORDER TAKEOUT & DELIVERY History of the IconThe Formosa first opened its doors IN LOS ANGELES in 1939: making its new debut in its 80th year. Located across from the then-Samuel Goldwyn studio, stars like Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, and Elvis Presley would pop into the legendary Formosa Cafe regularly for dining and drinks. On any given day, patrons might have seen Ava Gardner dancing past the old, red leather booths, or John Wayne nursing a late-night scotch (he was caught making scrambled eggs in our kitchen one morning, after reportedly passing out in a booth the night before).Among the interior design restorations is the full reveal of the iconic and original red trolley car, dating back to 1904 and is confirmed to be the oldest surviving red train car in existence. Boxes of autographed celebrity photos and storage units of original memorabilia have made their way back into the Cafe. We worked with local LOS ANGELES archivists and hospitality notables who helped to inform the new food and cocktail menu: a retrospective of Formosa’s culinary evolution since the 1920’s. The new Formosa not only transports guests back in time to the glory days of Hollywood, but with its new menu, And named best restaurant in west hollywood, patrons are given another way to connect to a part of LOS ANGELES gastronomic history, too.Because one of the most prominent decor themes in the Formosa is the old black and white headshots, we wanted to give the newer areas of the Formosa a part to play, too: to tell a storied history of Chinese American
```

 Facts

## What it can state about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | Restaurant |
| Name | The Formosa Café |
| Telephone | +1-323-794-1106 |
| Address | yes |
| Opening hours | yes |
| Menu or price list | a menu or price-list page in HTML theformosacafe.com/menu |
| Cuisine in structured data | American, Chinese |
| JSON-LD blocks | 3 (LocalBusiness, OpeningHoursSpecification, Organization, PostalAddress, Restaurant, WebSite) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

| Link | Role | Where it goes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [www.sevenrooms.com/explore/theformosacafe/reservations/create/search/](https://www.sevenrooms.com/explore/theformosacafe/reservations/create/search/) | booking | sevenrooms, acting for the business |
| [order.toasttab.com/online/formosa](https://order.toasttab.com/online/formosa) | ordering | toast, acting for the business |

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