The Direct Index
Report · Houston · scanned 2026-10-16

Lúa Viet Kitchen

luavietkitchen.com is hard for agents to use.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Lúa Viet Kitchen directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-16. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

West Alabama Street 1540 77006 Houston · +1-346-227-7047

Owners

The website's grade

AI assistants can't open Lúa Viet Kitchen's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

52.3%

34 of 65 points available

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agent-readiness level

2

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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Since the scan of 2026-10-16 (F then): fixed The site couldn't be read at all. new The site turned away every visitor that wasn't a browser; Structured data was incomplete.

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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Houston and named 62 places. Lúa Viet Kitchen wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Lúa Viet Kitchen compares

Where it stands

557 of 607 in Houston

Top 92% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Live Oak Grill F, LongHorn Steakhouse F. Just below: Maiasianbox Thai Food F, Mendocino Farms F.

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 HTML97%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)85%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours61%no
Have an llms.txt25%no

The top 10% are the 61 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
El Pueblito Patio mexican523 mFno
Empire Cafe american647 mCyes
The Pit Room barbecue687 mCyes
Candente tex-mex766 mCyes
Nidda Thai Cuisine thai776 mByes
La Guadalupana mexican937 mAyes
BCN Taste & Traditions spanish945 mAyes
Riva's italian997 mDno
Aladdin Mediterranean cuisine mediterranean, lebanese, greek, middle_eastern997 mAyes
Katz's american1.1 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Lúa Viet Kitchen in Houston

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Houston60753%39%52.3%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Houston

Aban Persian Restaurant A 100% · Aladdin Mediterranean cuisine A 100% · Azuma Sushi And Robata Bar A 100% · Brennan's A 100% · Chunk's Burger A 100%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 20th of 607 in Houston, up from 557th.

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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included +25 points

    A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +3 points

    Missing: opening hours. 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 Houston. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · A plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page.

Fix kit

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 your builder.

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": "Lúa Viet Kitchen",
  "url": "https://luavietkitchen.com",
  "telephone": "+1-346-227-7047",
  "email": "info@luavietkitchen.com",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "West Alabama Street 1540",
    "postalCode": "77006",
    "addressLocality": "Houston"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 29.7388879,
    "longitude": -95.3987664
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "vietnamese"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://luavietkitchen.com/menu/luavietkitchenheights",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://luavietkitchen.com/order/luavietkitchenheights",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

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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.

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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 agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Lúa Viet Kitchen

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/luavietkitchen.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/houston/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderluavietkitchen.com/order/luavietkitchenheights own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Menuluavietkitchen.com/menu/luavietkitchenheights html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+1-346-227-7047

Stable links that count: /go/luavietkitchen.com/order, /go/luavietkitchen.com/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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

Agent readiness

Not measured

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.

JSON-LD for the businessyes