The Blues Kitchen - Manchester
theblueskitchen.com is largely invisible to agents.
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Ways to reach The Blues Kitchen - Manchester directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Report a mistake
13 Quay St, M3 3HN, Manchester · +441618236343
Places near The Blues Kitchen - Manchester that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Ottoman Grill and Bar40 m
- El Rincon de Rafa - Rafa's Spanish Bar & Restaurant60 m · spanish
- Nando's90 m · chicken
- Suki Suki100 m · noodle
- Hawksmoor110 m · steak house
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Blues Kitchen - Manchester'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.
23 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.
Named by Claude for "A cheap lunch menu near the centre" in Manchester, November 2026
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Manchester and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 3 assistants asked.
| Question | Named by | Asked |
|---|---|---|
| A cheap lunch menu near the centre. | Claude through a marketplace | 2026-11-01 |
Every place named in Manchester, question by question.
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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/theblueskitchen.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/theblueskitchen.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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.
Recommended when people ask:
“A cheap lunch menu near the centre.” (Claude, through a marketplace)
How The Blues Kitchen - Manchester compares
1,934 of 2,377 in Manchester
Top 81% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Taylors Fish & Chips F, Thani Chinese Restaurant F. Just below: The Canadian Newton heath F, The Firepit Restaurant (Bury) F.
| 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 | 85% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 49% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 28% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 236,086 sites | 55% | 25% | 35.4% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ottoman Grill and Bar | 43 m | B | yes |
| El Rincon de Rafa - Rafa's Spanish Bar & Restaurant spanish | 58 m | B | yes |
| Philpotts sandwich | 77 m | D | no |
| Nando's chicken, portuguese | 91 m | A | yes |
| Suki Suki noodle | 99 m | A | yes |
| 20 Stories | 101 m | D | no |
| Pane Vino | 101 m | F | no |
| Platzki polish | 105 m | F | no |
| Rendition | 106 m | F | no |
| Hawksmoor steak_house | 107 m | A | yes |
Businesses like The Blues Kitchen - Manchester in Manchester
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Manchester | 2,377 | 55% | 33% | 35.4% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Manchester | 555 | 65% | 48% | 35.4% |
After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 92.3%. That would be 72nd of 2,377 in Manchester, up from 1934th.
This site appears in 2 cities (2 places on theblueskitchen.com). All the cities it's in →
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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Manchester. 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.
Builder: wordpress · almost no text without JavaScript · What to paste
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