The Direct Index
Report · Buenos Aires · scanned 2026-10-18

Alvear Grill

mesa.express is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Alvear Grill directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-18. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Alvear Palace Hotel, Ayacucho 2023, C1112, Ciudad de Buenos Aires · +541148082100

Languages: Spanish, English · WhatsApp: a link on the site

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Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Alvear Grill's website. It can read what Alvear Grill offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

69.2%

45 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

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 Gemini for "Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?" in Buenos Aires, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Buenos Aires 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
Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-15

Every place named in Buenos Aires, 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

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/mesa.express"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/mesa.express.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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:
“Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Alvear Grill compares

Where it stands

107 of 789 in Buenos Aires

Top 14% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Patio 378 B, Big Pons C. Just below: Bar Tucumán C, Boca de Toro C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain89%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML67%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)90%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours20%no
Have an llms.txt44%no

The top 10% are the 82 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

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Lima Estilo Nikkei Recoleta264 mFno
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Posta Recoleta Bodegón354 mFno
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Businesses like yours

Businesses like Alvear Grill in Buenos Aires

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Buenos Aires78946%13%69.2%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Buenos Aires

Astrid & Gaston A 100% · Pollos Liniers A 96.9% · Kune A 95.4% · La Corvina A 95.4% · ROSÉ Restaurant Bar A 95.4%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No working HTTPS), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 3rd of 789 in Buenos Aires, up from 107th.

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. No structured data for the business +14 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 working HTTPS +3 points

    The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse 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 Buenos Aires. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contacto/: nothing new; menu page /menu/: nothing new

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.

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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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Alvear Grill",
  "url": "http://alveargrill.mesa.express/",
  "telephone": "+541148082100",
  "address": "Alvear Palace Hotel, Ayacucho 2023, C1112, Ciudad de Buenos Aires",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -34.58741009,
    "longitude": -58.38890851
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://mesa.express/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Alvear Grill

> local business in Alvear Palace Hotel, Ayacucho 2023, C1112, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires. Phone +541148082100.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://mesa.express/ (on the business's own site)
- Menu: http://alveargrill.mesa.express/menu/

## About

- Website: http://alveargrill.mesa.express/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

Own this business?

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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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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Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/mesa.express"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/mesa.express.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
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 Alvear Grill

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/mesa.express, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/buenos-aires/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookmesa.express/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-18, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menualveargrill.mesa.express/menu/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+541148082100

Stable links that count: /go/mesa.express/book, /go/mesa.express/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
Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

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 homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno