🐀 Rick's Map
MCP serverDev toolsThis integration gives your AI the complete list of 636 restaurants taking part in NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026. Once it is added, your AI can help you pick a place to eat by narrowing the list to the cuisine, borough, price, and dates that work for you.
Use 🐀 Rick's Map in Claude, ChatGPT or Ahel Desktop
Free. Sign in, add 🐀 Rick's Map and connect your AI. About a minute.
Also: Claude Code · Cursor · Codex
Then ask your AI: use 🐀 Rick's Map to search restaurants
No key or account is asked for. Not verified by us yet: Ahel has not run a call through it.
Details
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No key or account is asked for. Not verified by us yet: Ahel has not run a call through it.
After adding it, ask your AI to find restaurants that match what you are looking for, such as a cuisine, borough, price range, or date. It will return the matching options from the Restaurant Week list.
What your AI can do with it
- Browse all 636 NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026 restaurants
- Filter the list by cuisine
- Narrow results by borough
- Compare options by price
- Find restaurants available on a specific date
Install 🐀 Rick's Map
The server’s own address, for the clients that take one directly. Or connect Ahel once and every client you use reads it from one address, with the account kept on Ahel rather than in each client’s config.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user rick-s-map 'https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp'Run it once in your project, then open /mcp to approve any sign-in the server asks for.
Claude Desktop
https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcpAdd a custom connector in Settings, paste this address, and approve the sign-in.
Cursor
cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=rick-s-map&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL255Y3Jlc3RhdXJhbnR3ZWVrLmFwcC9tY3AifQ==Open the link and Cursor adds the server at that address.
ChatGPT
https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcpIn Settings, enable Developer mode, create an MCP app, and paste this address. Your plan and workspace must allow custom apps.
Codex
codex mcp add rick-s-map --url 'https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp'Run it once, then sign in with codex mcp login rick-s-map if the server asks for an account.
From the project's README
As published by chadnewbry/nyc-restaurant-week-mcp in README.md.
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.
Tools it offers (4)
What this server listed when Ahel dialed its public endpoint in Sep 2026, with no key and no account of yours. The names are the server’s own.
search_restaurantsget_restaurantlist_filterscheck_date
Signals
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Delivery
- nyc-restaurant-week-mcp MCP server → your Ahel connector (mcp.ahel.ai) → your AI.
- Item type
- mcp-server
- Key
io-github-chadnewbry-nyc-restaurant-week-mcp- Source
- github.com/chadnewbry/nyc-restaurant-week-mcp
- Hosted endpoint
https://nycrestaurantweek.app/mcp
github.com/chadnewbry/nyc-restaurant-week-mcp