About NYC Restaurant Week
NYC Restaurant Week combines a restaurant map, filters, and a route feature for people exploring the Summer 2026 program. Its MCP server also lets clients query participating restaurants and event dates.
Key features
- 01Filter by cuisine, area, price, and date
- 02Map restaurants with subway lines
- 03View restaurant details and menu links
- 04Check event dates and weekend rules
- 05See Rick's simulated route to a restaurant
Use cases
- 01Find restaurants by budget and cuisine
- 02Check whether a date falls within the event
- 03Locate restaurants on a map
- 04Search participating restaurants through an MCP client
MCP support
It provides an MCP server without authentication or an API key, with tools to search restaurants, retrieve details, check event dates, and list filter values.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http chadnewbry-nyc-restaurant-week https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp{"mcpServers":{"chadnewbry-nyc-restaurant-week":{"type":"http","url":"https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"chadnewbry-nyc-restaurant-week":{"type":"http","url":"https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"chadnewbry-nyc-restaurant-week":{"type":"http","url":"https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"chadnewbry-nyc-restaurant-week":{"serverUrl":"https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
4| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | string | No | A specific date (YYYY-MM-DD) you want to dine — resolves to the right week and handles Saturday/Sunday rules |
| meal | enum | No | lunch | dinner | brunch |
| week | integer | No | Program week 1–7 (Week 1 starts Jul 20, Week 7 ends Sep 6) |
| limit | integer | No | Results per page, default 10, max 25 |
| price | enum | No | Maximum prix-fixe price per person: 30, 45, or 6030 | 45 | 60 |
| query | string | No | Free-text search over name, description, cuisine, and neighborhood (e.g. 'rooftop', 'omakase', 'steak tribeca') |
| offset | integer | No | Pagination offset |
| sunday | boolean | No | true = only restaurants offering Restaurant Week on Sundays |
| borough | enum | No | Manhattan | Brooklyn | Queens | The Bronx | Staten Island |
| cuisine | string | No | Cuisine filter, e.g. Italian, Japanese / Sushi, Steakhouse, French, Korean, Mexican, Seafood, Indian, Thai (see list_filters for all 50+) |
| has_menu | boolean | No | true = only restaurants that published their Restaurant Week menu PDF |
| collection | enum | No | Curated NYC Tourism collectionshidden-gems | date-night | celebrity-chefs | summer-vibes | around-the-boroughs | dress-for-the-occasion | for-the-foodies | classic-restaurants |
| neighborhood | string | No | e.g. Tribeca, West Village, Astoria, Williamsburg (see list_filters) |
| bookable_on_opentable | boolean | No | true = only restaurants reservable via OpenTable |
Details
From the project 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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