The Palmerston
thepalmerstonedinburgh.co.uk is partly visible to agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Ways to reach The Palmerston directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Report a mistake
Palmerston Place 1 EH12 5AF Edinburgh
Prices: 4 prices on the site, the middle one £24.50
Places near The Palmerston that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Old Pal Bar and Kitchen60 m
- China Star70 m · chinese
- The Khukuri90 m · nepali
- Pomo Pizzeria110 m
- Fava110 m · greek
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Palmerston's website. What The Palmerston offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace.
45 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 Edinburgh, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £14.00.
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.
The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about Edinburgh and named 63 places. The Palmerston wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How The Palmerston compares
382 of 896 in Edinburgh
Top 43% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Lioness of Leith C, The Pakora Bar C. Just below: The Pentland Restaurant C, The Printing Press Bar & Kitchen C.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 99% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 74% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 56% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 22% | no |
The top 10% are the 91 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 Squarespace 33,756 sites | 61% | 41% | 69.2% |
| Sites using Resy 2,836 sites | 67% | 44% | 69.2% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Pal Bar and Kitchen | 55 m | C | yes |
| China Star chinese | 74 m | A | yes |
| The Khukuri nepali | 88 m | A | yes |
| Roman Pizza Project pizza | 102 m | F | no |
| Pomo Pizzeria | 112 m | C | yes |
| Fava greek | 113 m | C | yes |
| Rancho steak_house | 116 m | D | yes |
| Ignite indian | 117 m | B | yes |
| Chizuru Tei japanese | 121 m | D | no |
| Rustom indian | 156 m | B | yes |
Businesses like The Palmerston in Edinburgh
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Edinburgh | 896 | 56% | 40% | 69.2% |
| Sites built with Squarespace in Edinburgh | 79 | 72% | 66% | 69.2% |
| Sites using Resy in Edinburgh | 1 | 69% | 0% | 69.2% |
| Sites built with Squarespace and using Resy in Edinburgh | 1 | 69% | 0% | 69.2% |
The best of the sites built with Squarespace in Edinburgh
Barry Fish A 95% · Salerno A 95% · Spitaki A 95% · Hope Izakaya A 93.8% · The Ox A 93.8%
After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (Booking only through resy; Menu or price list is a PDF; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 9th of 896 in Edinburgh, up from 382nd.
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.
What to fix first
- Booking only through resy +12 points
Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor
- Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points
Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +2 points
Missing: telephone. How to fix it
- No llms.txt no points, but worth doing
Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in Edinburgh. 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 (LocalBusiness) address, opening hours
- Resy works with agents through its partners Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.
Builder: squarespace
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 squarespace.
Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. 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 Palmerston",
"url": "https://www.thepalmerstonedinburgh.co.uk/",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Palmerston Place 1",
"postalCode": "EH12 5AF",
"addressLocality": "Edinburgh"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 55.9472652,
"longitude": -3.2151071
},
"hasMenu": "https://www.thepalmerstonedinburgh.co.uk/s/Sample-Menu.pdf"
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# The Palmerston > restaurant in Palmerston Place 1 EH12 5AF Edinburgh, Edinburgh. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.thepalmerstonedinburgh.co.uk/s/Sample-Menu.pdf ## About - Website: https://www.thepalmerstonedinburgh.co.uk/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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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.
Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thepalmerstonedinburgh.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thepalmerstonedinburgh.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
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 Palmerston
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/thepalmerstonedinburgh.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/edinburgh/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | www.thepalmerstonedinburgh.co.uk/s/Sample-Menu.pdf pdf | from the scan |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | none on record |
Stable links that count: /go/thepalmerstonedinburgh.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 |
| Vendor terms for agents Resy, read 2026-10-15 | Through partners |
Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Source. About Resy · all vendors.
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 | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| 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 |