The Direct Index
Report · Baltimore · scanned 2026-11-13

The Garden Rooftop

thegardenrooftop.com is partly visible to agents.

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Ways to reach The Garden Rooftop directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

411 N Paca St, Baltimore 21201 · +14434385125

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Garden Rooftop that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open The Garden Rooftop'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.

61.5%

40 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT for "A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?" in Baltimore, November 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Baltimore and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-11-13

Every place named in Baltimore, 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.

Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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Assistants

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 dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How The Garden Rooftop compares

Where it stands

443 of 873 in Baltimore

Top 51% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Stuggy's Sandwich Shop C, Thames Street Oyster House C. Just below: The HappyJack Tavern C, The Land of Kush C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML90%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)92%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours65%no
Have an llms.txt34%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 259,325 sites55%24%61.5%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Unity Bar and Restaurant american415 mByes
George's on Mt. Vernon Square american576 mFno
Sugarbee's Gourmet Panini Grill american630 mCyes
The Manor american877 mAyes
Plates american950 mFno
Maryland Yards american956 mByes
Nalley Fresh american997 mByes
Proper Cuisine american1.1 kmCyes
Dodah's Kitchen american1.2 kmByes
Crazy John's american1.2 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Garden Rooftop in Baltimore

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Baltimore87355%38%61.5%
Sites built with WordPress in Baltimore17563%36%61.5%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 29th of 873 in Baltimore, up from 443rd.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Baltimore. 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.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · booking page /restaurant/: booking via opentable · What to paste

Owners

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Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

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