NYC Restaurant Week
All 636 NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026 restaurants — filter by cuisine, borough, price, and date.
What can you do with NYC Restaurant Week?
- 🗺️ 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
Install
Add this to your client's MCP configuration (Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json; Cursor: .cursor/mcp.json; VS Code and others use the same "mcpServers" shape).
claude mcp add --transport http nyc-restaurant-week 'https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp'{
"mcpServers": {
"nyc-restaurant-week": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp"
}
}
}Documentation
From the project's README on GitHub, refreshed weekly. Links open on GitHub.
🐀 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.
Frequently asked questions
What is NYC Restaurant Week?
All 636 NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026 restaurants — filter by cuisine, borough, price, and date.
How do I install NYC Restaurant Week?
It runs as a remote server. In Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http nyc-restaurant-week 'https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp'. For other clients, paste the JSON configuration from this page into their MCP settings.
Does NYC Restaurant Week need an API key?
Its registry entry lists no required key or secret. Some features may still need an account with the service it connects to.
Is NYC Restaurant Week open source?
Its code is public on GitHub, but the repository does not declare a standard license.
Who maintains NYC Restaurant Week?
It is published by chadnewbry. AI.tn lists it but does not maintain or endorse it.
From the official MCP Registry. Listing is not an endorsement: review a server's code and permissions before giving it access to your data.