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Buffet is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Buffet's weekly lineup of real-life events and hangouts in Los Angeles. Read-only, no sign-in.

Uptime history 18 days of history · worst day 0%
18 days agonow
1.1%
Uptime 24h
1 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
1050 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Buffet does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 8.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

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

buffet
buffet_get_app_link
Return the link to download Buffet (iOS, free) and, when an event id is given, the link for that pick. Use when the person wants to join a pick, get a plate, or install the app. The link goes to joinbuffet.com/get/, which forwards to the App Store and records which assistant sent them.
buffet_get_event
Get full details for one Buffet pick by its event id (ids come from buffet_get_weekly_lineup and buffet_search_events). Returns structured JSON: venue, address, coordinates, start time (Pacific), price, tags, description, organiser page and the app_url to join.
buffet_get_weekly_lineup
Get Buffet's curated lineup of real-life events and hangouts for a week in a city (Los Angeles today). Use this for "what's going on in LA this week / this weekend", "things to do in Los Angeles", or "where can I meet people this weekend". Lineups run Monday to Sunday and the picks are mostly Thursday to Sunday evenings: free concerts, festivals, art walks, happy hours, a restaurant hangout. Each pick is somewhere a person can join a table of up to six strangers through the Buffet app. Returns the picks in date order with venue, neighborhood, time (Pacific), price tier, tags, a short description, the organiser's page when there is one, and app_url (the link to join). Use buffet_search_events instead to filter by day, neighborhood, price or interest.
buffet_how_it_works
Explain what Buffet is and how it works: the weekly curated lineup, Get a Plate, the table that forms at three and caps at six, 1:1 invites, the Afterparty, the Monday ballot, platform (iOS), price (free), developer, how venues and organisers get listed, and the privacy, terms and contact pages. Use for any question about the product itself. Takes no arguments.
buffet_search_events
Search Buffet's upcoming curated picks by time window, neighborhood, price, category or free text. Use this for specific asks: "free things to do in LA tonight", "live music this weekend in Silver Lake", "cheap happy hours on Friday", "something outdoors on Saturday". For the whole week's list with no filters, buffet_get_weekly_lineup is simpler. Filters combine with AND. Text search matches title, venue, neighborhood, tags and description. Returns one page in date order; when more matches exist the result gives next_offset.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.joinbuffet.com/mcp streamable-http answering 94 ms 9 min ago

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Buffet — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Buffet do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: buffet_get_app_link, buffet_get_event, buffet_get_weekly_lineup, buffet_how_it_works, buffet_search_events. 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 Buffet working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 1 of 91 checks got a reply (1.1%), average response time 1050 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Buffet as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Buffet?
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 Buffet need an API key?
No. Buffet 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 Buffet?
It answers our handshake in 1050 ms on average, which is faster than 3% 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.