nyc-restaurant-week
MCP server for NYC Restaurant Week, enabling search and lookup of participating restaurants, date checks, and filter options.
README
🐀 Rick's Map
nycrestaurantweek.app — every NYC Restaurant Week restaurant on one map, plus a pixel rat who rides the actual subway to whichever one you pick.
Restaurant Week Summer 2026 runs Jul 20 – Sep 6 with 636 participating restaurants. The official site is an endless scroll. This one isn't.
✨ What it does
- 🗺️ Map — real NYC cartography with the subway lines drawn in
- 🚇 Rick — walks, Citibikes, cabs, or takes the train to your pick. The track geometry is real, and the subway car gets repainted in the route color
- 💬 Ask Rick — "$30 omakase in brooklyn, open sunday"
- 🔌 MCP server — the same data, for Claude or any MCP client
🔌 MCP server
No auth, no API key, one line:
claude mcp add --transport http nyc-restaurant-week https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
search_restaurants |
Filter by cuisine, borough, neighborhood, price, meal, week, date, or collection. Paginated. |
get_restaurant |
Full detail by slug or name — menu PDF, website, OpenTable link. |
check_date |
Is Restaurant Week on that day? Which week? Saturday/Sunday rules. |
list_filters |
Every filter value, with live participant counts. |
🛠️ How it works
No database. All 636 restaurants live in data/restaurants.json (509 KB) and get bundled into the serverless function at build time.
| Piece | Built with |
|---|---|
| 🗺️ Map | MapLibre + OpenFreeMap tiles |
| 🚇 Subway | Real MTA geometry in public/subway.json — nearest-station lookup, direct or one-transfer rides, sliced along the true track |
| 🐀 Rick | Hand-drawn pixel art, rendered as SVG rects |
| 🚕 Street legs | OSRM, with a straight-line fallback when it times out |
| 💬 Chat | Haiku via the AI Gateway, degrading to plain keyword search if the gateway falls over |
🏃 Run it
npm install
npm run dev # site on :3000, MCP at localhost:3000/mcp
npm run scrape # refresh the restaurant data
📋 Data
From the public program API behind nyctourism.com/restaurant-week — the same JSON their own browser client fetches.
🐀 Unofficial fan project. Not affiliated with NYC Tourism + Conventions or NYC Restaurant Week®. Prices and participation change — always confirm with the restaurant.
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