Hidden Grounds
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Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Ways to reach Hidden Grounds directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake
Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mo-Fr 07:00-18:00, Sa-Su 07:00-18:00
36 3rd Avenue, 10003 · +18322750678
Places near Hidden Grounds that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Cafe 2by260 m · coffee shop
- Hex & Co.290 m · coffee shop
- Veniero's Pasticceria & Caffé440 m · pastry
- Boris and Horton690 m · coffee shop
- The Uncommons790 m · coffee shop
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open Hidden Grounds'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.
49 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 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 12 everyday questions about New York cafes and bars and named 95 places. Hidden Grounds wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How Hidden Grounds compares
714 of 4,114 in New York cafes and bars
Top 17% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Good Morning Brooklyn B, Harney and Sons B. Just below: Hurley's B, Jeremy's Cafe B.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 97% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 36% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 23% | yes |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Shopify 14,639 sites | 48% | 24% | 75.4% |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cafe 2by2 coffee_shop, pastry | 60 m | F | yes |
| Hex & Co. coffee_shop | 291 m | B | yes |
| Matto Espresso coffee_shop | 379 m | F | no |
| Not As Bitter coffee_shop | 432 m | D | no |
| Veniero's Pasticceria & Caffé pastry, coffee_shop | 435 m | B | yes |
| Boris and Horton coffee_shop | 694 m | B | yes |
| Cafe La Fe coffee_shop, empanada | 774 m | C | no |
| The Uncommons coffee_shop | 787 m | C | yes |
| La Colombe Coffee Roasters coffee_shop | 790 m | F | no |
| Eleni's Goods greek, coffee_shop | 814 m | B | yes |
Businesses like Hidden Grounds in New York cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in New York cafes and bars | 4,114 | 48% | 27% | 75.4% |
| Sites built with Shopify in New York cafes and bars | 168 | 53% | 25% | 75.4% |
After the top fixes
With the two fixes above (No menu or price list found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 46th of 4,114 in New York cafes and bars, up from 714th.
What to fix first
- 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
- Structured data is incomplete +6 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in New York cafes and bars. 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.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
- Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
- 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: shopify · contact page /pages/help: nothing new; booking page /pages/events: phone · What to paste
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