Restaurants in Utrecht that AI assistants recommend
We asked ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the four questions a buyer asks when looking for restaurants in Utrecht, three times each, in Dutch, and counted who they named. These are the businesses named in two or more of the 36 answers.
Names are printed as the assistants wrote them. We have not checked that any of them is good, open, or real.
- Answers
- 36
- Businesses named
- 68
- Named only once
- 35
- Named by 2+ assistants
- 11 of 33
- Named again on a rerun
- 50%
Edition September 2026. Download the data
Asked for restaurants in Utrecht, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini most often named Karel V (53% of answers), Hemel & Aarde (39%) and Maeve (36%). Across 36 answers they named 68 different businesses, 35 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in Dutch, in September 2026.
The ranking
The AI Recommendation Rate is the fraction of the 36 answers that named a business. The range under it is a 95% confidence interval: where two ranges overlap, the gap between those businesses could be chance.
| # | Business | AI Recommendation Rate | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini | Questions | Avg. position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karel VAlso written Restaurant Karel 5, Restaurant Karel V, Karel 5, Grand Hotel Karel V, Grand Café Karel VIs this your business? | 95%: 37 to 68% | 50% | 33% | 75% | 3 of 4 | 1.4 |
| 2 | Hemel & AardeAlso written Restaurant Hemel & AardeIs this your business? | 95%: 25 to 55% | 50% | 0% | 67% | 3 of 4 | 3.1 |
| 3 | MaeveAlso written Restaurant MaeveIs this your business? | 95%: 23 to 52% | 58% | 0% | 50% | 3 of 4 | 2.3 |
| 4 | Restaurant BlauwIs this your business? | 95%: 14 to 41% | 25% | 0% | 50% | 3 of 4 | 4.3 |
| 5 | WilhelminaparkAlso written Wilhelminapark Restaurant, Restaurant Wilhelminapark, Wilhelminapark 3Is this your business? | 95%: 12 to 38% | 0% | 67% | 0% | 4 of 4 | 1.8 |
| 6 | Ruby RoseIs this your business? | 95%: 12 to 38% | 0% | 0% | 67% | 3 of 4 | 4.6 |
| 7 | WT Urban KitchenIs this your business? | 95%: 12 to 38% | 0% | 0% | 67% | 3 of 4 | 6.1 |
| 8 | De ZakkendragerIs this your business? | 95%: 10 to 35% | 0% | 8% | 50% | 4 of 4 | 3 |
| 9 | BroeiAlso written BROEI, Restaurant BroeiIs this your business? | 95%: 8 to 32% | 33% | 17% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 2.7 |
| 10 | GysAlso written GYSIs this your business? | 95%: 8 to 32% | 8% | 0% | 42% | 2 of 4 | 4.5 |
| 11 | Meneer SmakersIs this your business? | 95%: 6 to 29% | 0% | 42% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 3 |
| 12 | De RechtbankIs this your business? | 95%: 6 to 29% | 25% | 0% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 4 |
| 13 | PodiumAlso written Restaurant Podium, Podium RestaurantIs this your business? | 95%: 6 to 29% | 0% | 42% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 4.6 |
| 14 | Zaza'sAlso written Restaurant Zaza'sIs this your business? | 95%: 4 to 25% | 0% | 33% | 0% | 3 of 4 | 1.5 |
| 15 | Simple.Also written Restaurant Simple.Is this your business? | 95%: 4 to 25% | 0% | 0% | 33% | 3 of 4 | 4.8 |
| 16 | ConcoursAlso written Restaurant ConcoursIs this your business? | 95%: 4 to 25% | 8% | 0% | 25% | 3 of 4 | 5 |
| 17 | De KlubIs this your business? | 95%: 4 to 25% | 8% | 0% | 25% | 1 of 4 | 5 |
| 18 | Le JardinIs this your business? | 95%: 3 to 22% | 25% | 0% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 2.3 |
| 19 | De Zwarte VoschAlso written Restaurant De Zwarte VoschIs this your business? | 95%: 3 to 22% | 17% | 0% | 8% | 1 of 4 | 3.3 |
| 20 | De ZustersIs this your business? | 95%: 3 to 22% | 0% | 0% | 25% | 2 of 4 | 4 |
| 21 | LE:ENIs this your business? | 95%: 3 to 22% | 0% | 0% | 25% | 1 of 4 | 4 |
| 22 | ZarzoAlso written Restaurant ZarzoIs this your business? | 95%: 3 to 22% | 0% | 25% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 4.3 |
| 23 | WilhelminaAlso written Restaurant WilhelminaIs this your business? | 95%: 3 to 22% | 0% | 25% | 0% | 3 of 4 | 4.7 |
| 24 | GoestingAlso written Goesting BistroIs this your business? | 95%: 3 to 22% | 0% | 25% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 5 |
| 25 | BadhuysIs this your business? | 95%: 3 to 22% | 0% | 0% | 25% | 2 of 4 | 7.3 |
| 26 | Brasserie Goeie LouisaIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 17% | 0% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 1 |
| 27 | Restaurant 273Is this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 17% | 0% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 2 |
| 28 | KarafIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 3 |
| 29 | The Streetfood ClubIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 3 |
| 30 | De ZakenIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 4 |
| 31 | BloemAlso written Bistro Bloem, Bloem Bar & KitchenIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 5 |
| 32 | De Zwarte DoosIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 6 |
| 33 | SpaghetteriaIs this your business? | 95%: 2 to 18% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 1 of 4 | 6 |
Each assistant column is the share of that assistant's own answers. Questions counts how many of the four produced the name at least once; position is where it came in the answer's list, 1 being first. 35 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.
Is this your business?
See what the assistants say about your business today. The free checker asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok two of the Index questions for this category, with the category and the place already filled in, and shows every answer word for word. About 30 seconds, no sign-up.
What each assistant said
The same questions, the same number of times, and often different names. Each column is one assistant's top five from the ranking above, with the share of its own answers that named them.
| # | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maeve58% | Wilhelminapark67% | Karel V75% |
| 2 | Karel V50% | Meneer Smakers42% | Hemel & Aarde67% |
| 3 | Hemel & Aarde50% | Podium42% | Ruby Rose67% |
| 4 | Broei33% | Karel V33% | WT Urban Kitchen67% |
| 5 | Restaurant Blauw25% | Zaza's33% | Maeve50% |
Named here? Put it on your site
Every business in the ranking was named in two or more answers. The badge says that and nothing more: no position, because the ranges above do not support one. It links back to this page, so anyone can check.
<a href="https://aigrow.gg/index/restaurants/utrecht"><img src="https://aigrow.gg/badges/index/2026-09/restaurants/utrecht.svg" width="312" height="100" alt="Named by AI assistants: Restaurants in Utrecht, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, September 2026"></a>The questions
Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant, in Dutch. The English under each is our translation. The prompt is the one the free scan uses. No web search, no location and no chat history, so every answer starts from the same place.
- 1Wat is het beste restaurant in Utrecht?What is the best restaurant in Utrecht?
- 2Ik zoek een restaurant in Utrecht voor een bijzonder diner. Welke zou je aanraden?I'm looking for a restaurant in Utrecht for a special dinner. Which would you recommend?
- 3Welke restaurants in Utrecht raden de locals aan?Which restaurants in Utrecht do the locals recommend?
- 4Waar kan ik in Utrecht het beste met een klant lunchen?Where should I take a client for a business lunch in Utrecht?
How to read this page
- What it measures
- Which names these models produce when asked cold, from what they learned in training. It is not a review, a rating or our recommendation, and a business missing here may simply be one the models were never shown.
- Why the ranges matter
- 36 answers is a sample. Asked again next month, most shares will move by a few points; the ranges say how far they could move by chance alone.
- One business, several spellings
- Branches, legal suffixes and spellings of one business are merged, and the other spellings are printed under its name. Names that might be two businesses are kept apart.
- A name is wrong
- If a business here is closed, misnamed or yours and you want it removed, tell us. We correct or remove it when the page is next published.
Where the assistants look
The sites read most often, with web search on, before the assistants answer about this category in the Netherlands. From the AI Source Map: 5 answers.
- michelin.com
- Read in 80% of the answers
- reddit.com
- Read in 80% of the answers
- rtl.nl
- Read in 80% of the answers
Is your business on this list?
The free scan asks the same assistants the questions your customers ask, scores whether they name you, and lists who they name instead.
Edition September 2026 · published by Guglielmo Paesano, founder of AIGROW · data under CC BY 4.0