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Dishes of London MCP Server

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Dishes of London is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Find a dish in London by area, postcode, price, diet and serving time. Free, read-only, no key.

Uptime history 8 hours of history
8 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
27 of 27 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
249 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Dishes of London every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add dishes-of-london --transport http https://dishesof.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://dishesof.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.dishes-of-london]
url = "https://dishesof.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dishes-of-london": {
      "url": "https://dishesof.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "dishes-of-london": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://dishesof.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

coverage
list_coverage
The boroughs and neighbourhoods Dishes of London covers (with venue counts), the dish categories it groups menus into, and the diet filters find_dishes accepts. Call it when you need a valid area name, or to tell someone whether their part of London is covered yet. Read-only.
dishes
find_dishes
Find venues in the covered parts of London that serve a dish, with each matching dish's name, price as printed on the menu, the venue's own diet labels, and the link to the venue's page. Filters: an area name, or a postcode / coordinates with a radius; a maximum price; a diet; and when it is served. Coverage is 7 London boroughs (Camden, City of London, Hackney, Islington, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest), not all of London: call list_coverage for the area names. Diet filters only match labels the venue prints on the dish, never a guess, so check allergies with the venue. Times come from the menu where it prints them; venues that only have opening hours are listed separately as times_not_printed. Prices are as read on the date shown, not live. Read-only. Use get_page with a venue URL for the full menu.
page
get_page
The full text of one page on Dishes of London (https://dishesof.com) as Markdown, with its title, URL, last-updated date and any structured fields (verdicts, categories and so on). Pass the page URL or its path, as returned by search_site or list_pages. Read-only.
pages
list_pages
Every published page on Dishes of London (https://dishesof.com), newest first, with URL, section, last-updated date and description. 2154 pages in total; filter by section and page through with offset.
site
search_site
Keyword search over every published page on Dishes of London (https://dishesof.com): titles, descriptions, headings and full text. Returns up to 10 pages (max 25) with URL, last-updated date, a one-line description and a snippet around the match. Read-only; cite the page URL. Use get_page for a page's full text.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://dishesof.com/mcp streamable-http answering 374 ms 5 min ago

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Dishes of London — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Dishes of London do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_dishes, get_page, list_coverage, list_pages, search_site. 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 Dishes of London working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 27 of 27 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 249 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Dishes of London?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Dishes of London need an API key?
No. Dishes of London completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Dishes of London?
It answers our handshake in 249 ms on average, which is faster than 58% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.