NYC Restaurant Week

🐀 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.

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🐀 Unofficial fan project. Not affiliated with NYC Tourism + Conventions or NYC Restaurant Week®. Prices and participation change — always confirm with the restaurant.