Dim Hour

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Search 19,000+ verified places to eat and drink across 24 cities, each with a 0-100 quality score.

com.dimhour/catalog (MCP Server)

The com.dimhour/catalog MCP server provides programmatic access to a catalog of verified places to eat and drink. It searches 19,000+ places across 24 cities and includes a 0–100 quality score for each entry, supporting structured lookup use cases via its available tools.

🛠️ Key Features

Search 19,000+ verified places to eat and drink
Coverage across 24 cities
0–100 quality score per place
Tooling available (7 tools)

🚀 Use Cases

Find places to eat and drink within one of 24 cities
Filter or rank options using a 0–100 quality score
Integrate catalog search into developer workflows

⚡ Developer Benefits

Structured results aligned to quality scoring
Scalable search over a large, verified dataset

⚠️ Limitations

Limited detail available: no additional behaviors, endpoints, or fields beyond the catalog scope and scoring are specified

Captured live from the server via tools/list.

list_cities

List the 22 cities Dim Hour covers, with the city key to pass to the other tools.

Parameters

No parameters.

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

search_venues

Search Dim Hour's restaurant, bar and venue catalog. Pass `city` to search one city, or OMIT `city` to search more than 19,000 venues across every city at once (e.g. 'best ramen anywhere', 'michelin spots'). Returns ranked matches with score (0-100 quality), price tier, neighborhood, happy-hour info, and a dimhour.com link. Free-text `query` matches each content word individually across cuisine, dish, vibe, and name (filler like 'best' or 'tonight' is ignored) - one strong keyword beats a sentence; combine with filters.

Parameters11

city	string	optional	City name or key, e.g. 'NYC', 'dallas'. OMIT to search ALL cities at once.
query	string	optional	Free text; every content word must appear in name, cuisine, neighborhood, tags, dishes, or description (filler like 'best'/'tonight' is ignored). One strong keyword beats a full sentence.
neighborhood	string	optional	Filter to a neighborhood (substring match)
cuisine	string	optional	Filter to a cuisine (substring match)
max_price	integer	optional	Max price tier 1-4 ($-$$$$)
min_score	number	optional	Minimum quality score 0-100
happy_hour_only	boolean	optional	Only venues with happy hour info
awards_contains	string	optional	Only venues whose awards field matches, e.g. 'michelin', 'james beard', 'bib gourmand'
iconic_only	boolean	optional	Only 'Iconic 50' venues (NYC has these today)
trending_only	boolean	optional	Only trending venues
limit	integer	optional	Max results, default 10

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "city": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "City name or key, e.g. 'NYC', 'dallas'. OMIT to search ALL cities at once."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Free text; every content word must appear in name, cuisine, neighborhood, tags, dishes, or description (filler like 'best'/'tonight' is ignored). One strong keyword beats a full sentence."
    },
    "neighborhood": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Filter to a neighborhood (substring match)"
    },
    "cuisine": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Filter to a cuisine (substring match)"
    },
    "max_price": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 4,
      "description": "Max price tier 1-4 ($-$$$$)"
    },
    "min_score": {
      "type": "number",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 100,
      "description": "Minimum quality score 0-100"
    },
    "happy_hour_only": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Only venues with happy hour info"
    },
    "awards_contains": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Only venues whose awards field matches, e.g. 'michelin', 'james beard', 'bib gourmand'"
    },
    "iconic_only": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Only 'Iconic 50' venues (NYC has these today)"
    },
    "trending_only": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Only trending venues"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 25,
      "description": "Max results, default 10"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

list_new_venues

Venues recently added to the Dim Hour catalog — across all 22 cities or one city. Use for 'what's new on Dim Hour' / new-opening alerts / weekly digests. Scored places to eat and drink come first; hotels, malls, museums and landmarks carry no `score` and follow them. Recency orders within each group. Dates earlier than 2026-06-06 are estimates reconstructed from history.

Parameters3

city	string	optional	Optional city name or key; omit for all cities
days	integer	optional	Look-back window in days, default 30 (max 90)
limit	integer	optional	Max results, default 25

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "city": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional city name or key; omit for all cities"
    },
    "days": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 90,
      "description": "Look-back window in days, default 30 (max 90)"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 100,
      "description": "Max results, default 25"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

get_venue

Get the full Dim Hour record for one venue: description, signature dishes, address, hours, phone, happy hour, reservation platform, awards, website, Instagram, and (for Iconic 50 venues) the long-form story.

Parameters3

city	string	required	City name or key
id	integer	optional	Venue id from search_venues
name	string	optional	Venue name (used if id not given)

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "city": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "City name or key"
    },
    "id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Venue id from search_venues"
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Venue name (used if id not given)"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "city"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

search

Search Dim Hour's restaurant, bar and venue catalog across all 22 cities. Returns ranked venues with a dimhour.com link for each. Use for questions about where to eat or drink — by cuisine, dish, neighborhood, city, vibe, or award.

Parameters1

query

string

required

What to look for, e.g. 'best ramen in NYC', 'michelin dallas', 'rooftop bar miami'

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "What to look for, e.g. 'best ramen in NYC', 'michelin dallas', 'rooftop bar miami'"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

fetch

Get the full Dim Hour record for one venue by the id returned from `search`: description, signature dishes, address, hours, phone, happy hour, reservation platform, awards, website and Instagram.

Parameters1

string

required

Venue id from `search`, in the form 'city:id' e.g. 'nyc:1367'

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Venue id from `search`, in the form 'city:id' e.g. 'nyc:1367'"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

list_curated

Dim Hour's editorial themed lists for a city (e.g. 'Unmarked Doors' speakeasies). Without list_id: returns all list titles. With list_id: returns that list's venues with editorial notes.

Parameters2

city	string	required	City name or key
list_id	string	optional	A list id from the no-arg call

Raw schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "city": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "City name or key"
    },
    "list_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A list id from the no-arg call"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "city"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

Install

Tools (7)

list_citiessearch_venueslist_new_venuesget_venuesearchfetchlist_curated

Remote endpoint

Streamable HTTP

Hosted server - connect over the network, no local install.

url

https://mcp.dimhour.com/mcp

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claude_desktop_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalog": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.dimhour.com/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Desktop config is stdio-only; this bridges via mcp-remote. Native remote: Settings > Connectors.

com.dimhour/catalog (MCP Server)

🛠️ Key Features

🚀 Use Cases

⚡ Developer Benefits

⚠️ Limitations

list_cities

search_venues

list_new_venues

get_venue

search

fetch

list_curated

Install

Remote endpoint

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