Dim Hour MCP Server

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answering

Dim Hour is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.

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

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 47%

47 days agonow

50.0%

Uptime 24h

184 of 368 checks

Tools

read from the server

1435 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 36

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 11 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

18 Sep a tool changed version2 times that day

17 Sep 3 tool descriptions were rewritten6 times that day list_cities, list_new_venues, search

17 Sep 2 tools appeared find_places, get_hours

17 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_venues

11 Sep a tool description was rewritten search_venues

8 Sep 3 tool descriptions were rewritten list_cities, list_new_venues, search

2 Sep 5 tool descriptions were rewritten list_cities, list_curated, list_new_venues and 2 more

27 Aug 2 tool descriptions were rewritten list_new_venues, search_venues

26 Aug a tool description was rewritten search_venues

25 Aug a tool description was rewritten2 times that day search_venues

and 16 more, back to 11 August 2026

Dim Hour does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 50.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add catalog --transport http https://dimhour-mcp.jakeoborn.workers.dev/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalog": {
      "url": "https://dimhour-mcp.jakeoborn.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.catalog]
url = "https://dimhour-mcp.jakeoborn.workers.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalog": {
      "url": "https://dimhour-mcp.jakeoborn.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalog": {
      "url": "https://dimhour-mcp.jakeoborn.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This server publishes 3 more addresses. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

Available tools 9

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

cities

list_cities

List the 24 cities Dim Hour covers, with the city key to pass to the other tools.

curated

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.

fetch

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.

hours

get_hours

Opening hours for one venue, from the Dim Hour catalog. ALWAYS returns `as_of` and never claims to be live — hours are catalog data, not a live feed, and the receipt says how old they are. Measured 2026-09-16, 82% of venues carry hours; when a venue has none this ABSTAINS and says so rather than guessing. Confirm with the venue before relying on it.

new

list_new_venues

Venues recently added to the Dim Hour catalog — across all 24 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.

places

find_places

Find places for a specific occasion in one city — the task-shaped entry point. Give the city and what the evening needs (a cuisine, a neighborhood, a budget, a vibe) and it returns ranked, citable venues with a freshness receipt. Prefer this over search_venues when you are planning rather than browsing.

search

Search Dim Hour's restaurant, bar and venue catalog across all 24 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.

venue

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.

venues

search_venues

Search Dim Hour's restaurant, bar and venue catalog. Pass `city` to search one city, or OMIT `city` to search more than 20,000 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.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

post_to_brain

removed 13 Aug 2026

read_brain

removed 13 Aug 2026

add_to_trip

removed 13 Aug 2026

list_my_trips

removed 13 Aug 2026

save_venue

removed 13 Aug 2026

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://dimhour-mcp.jakeoborn.workers.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	581 ms	7 min ago
https://dimhour-mcp.jakeoborn.workers.dev/sse	sse	answering	162 ms	8 min ago
https://mcp.dimhour.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	469 ms	7 min ago
https://mcp.dimhour.com/sse	sse	answering	63 ms	8 min ago

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Dim Hour — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Dim Hour do?

It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: fetch, find_places, get_hours, get_venue, list_cities, list_curated and 3 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Dim Hour working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 184 of 368 checks got a reply (50.0%), average response time 1435 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Did Dim Hour ever remove tools?

Yes. post_to_brain, read_brain, add_to_trip, list_my_trips and 1 more are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.

Is Dim Hour still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Dim Hour?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Dim Hour need an API key?

No. Dim Hour completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Dim Hour?

It answers our handshake in 1435 ms on average, which is faster than 2% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.