The Spice Cottage
thespicecottage.com is largely invisible to agents.
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Ways to reach The Spice Cottage directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. Report a mistake
2 HUTTON STREET, NE3 3XN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE · +447538131469
Places near The Spice Cottage that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Fawdon Tandoori870 m · indian
- Dabbawal2.8 km · indian
- The Diner3.1 km · pizza
- Dosa Kitchen3.2 km · indian
The website's grade
Some AI assistants are turned away by The Spice Cottage's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It can't find a link to book or order online.
10 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 22 everyday questions about Newcastle upon Tyne and named 84 places. The Spice Cottage wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How The Spice Cottage compares
416 of 457 in Newcastle upon Tyne
Top 91% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: La Toscana Ristorante F, New New Bengal F. Just below: Baba Mediterranean Bbq Kebabs F, Medina grill west road F.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 79% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 62% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 21% | yes |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fawdon Tandoori indian | 866 m | C | yes |
| The Days Of The Raj indian | 1.3 km | C | no |
| New New Bengal indian | 1.3 km | F | no |
| Taste of Asia Gosforth indian | 1.3 km | C | no |
| New Miah’s Kitchen Cramlington indian | 2.3 km | C | no |
| Dabbawal indian | 2.8 km | A | yes |
| The Diner pizza, indian | 3.1 km | C | yes |
| Rajnagar indian | 3.1 km | C | no |
| Dosa Kitchen indian | 3.2 km | B | yes |
| Hyderabadi Kitchen Bar & Restaurant indian | 3.8 km | C | no |
Businesses like The Spice Cottage in Newcastle upon Tyne
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Newcastle upon Tyne | 457 | 58% | 40% | 15.4% |
After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 76.9%. That would be 108th of 457 in Newcastle upon Tyne, up from 416th.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +15 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
- No booking or ordering link on the website +15 points
There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it
- The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +10 points
Requests as GPTBot (challenge:access denied), ClaudeBot (challenge:access denied), PerplexityBot (challenge:access denied) 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
- 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
- No working HTTPS +3 points
The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it.
- Almost no text without JavaScript +2 points
Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. How to fix it
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Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
Builder: unknown · almost no text without JavaScript · What to paste
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