The Direct Index
Report · Brussels · scanned 2026-10-18

The Restaurant by Pierre Balthazar

thehotel-brussels.be is hard for agents to use.

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Boulevard de Waterloo 38, 1000, Brussels · 02 504 13 33

Prices: 8 prices on the site, the middle one €177 · Languages: English, French, Dutch · WhatsApp: a link on the site

Cette page en français · Deze pagina in het Nederlands

Owners

The website, graded

Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of The Restaurant by Pierre Balthazar. It can read what The Restaurant by Pierre Balthazar offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through reservations.travelclick.com.

44.6%

29 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not 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.

8 prices on the landing page, the middle one €177.

In Brussels, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is €14.90.

Every city compared →
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

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.

Asked 13 everyday questions about Brussels, the assistants named 67 places; The Restaurant by Pierre Balthazar was not among them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How The Restaurant by Pierre Balthazar compares

Where it stands

1,073 of 1,568 in Brussels

Top 68% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: O-live D, Pizza Bento D. Just below: Volta Supper Club D, Wantany D.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours94%no
Have an llms.txt3%yes

The top tenth is the 159 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Iris19 mCyes
La Fabrique en Ville belgian35 mAyes
JB145 mCyes
Gallery asian159 mAyes
Coco Brussels162 mByes
Maison Louise - Kitchen. Bar. Garden belgian170 mByes
Thai Wok Express thai197 mDno
Le Confucius chinese205 mAyes
Brasserie Couleur Café belgian207 mFno
Brasserie Poelaert french217 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Restaurant by Pierre Balthazar in Brussels

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Brussels1,56858%36%44.6%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Brussels

'T Kelderke A 100% · 9 et voisins A 100% · A l'Angolo A 100% · Afrikana A 100% · Akai A 100%

The climb

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Booking through an unrecognised third party) the score would be about 95.4%: 158th of 1,568 in Brussels, up from 1073rd.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +10 points

    Live fetches as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403), PerplexityBot (http_403) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  3. Booking through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Brussels. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /en/location-and-contact.html: booking link (other); Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder is in the guides.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "The Restaurant by Pierre Balthazar",
  "url": "http://www.thehotel-brussels.be",
  "telephone": "02 504 13 33",
  "address": "Boulevard de Waterloo 38, 1000, Brussels",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 50.837640019706946,
    "longitude": 4.357044304702799
  }
}
</script>
Owners

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Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score D

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for The Restaurant by Pierre Balthazar

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/thehotel-brussels.be, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/brussels/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.thehotel-brussels.be/ html_inlinefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone02 504 13 33

Stable links that count: /go/thehotel-brussels.be/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.

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

Found one hop past the home page: contact page /en/location-and-contact.html: booking link (other).

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of 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