KnowChelsea MCP Server

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answering

KnowChelsea is answering right now. Last checked 16 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

Curated places in Chelsea, London: restaurants, coffee, pubs, parks and shops.

Uptime history 33 days of history · worst day 99%

33 days agonow

98.9%

Uptime 24h

90 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

242 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 13

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 23 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

3 Nov 5 tool descriptions were rewritten get_guide, get_place, list_guides and 2 more

3 Nov a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_places

3 Nov a tool changed version

31 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for compare_places, get_place

23 Oct 4 tools appeared compare_places, get_guide, list_guides and 1 more

KnowChelsea missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of 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 16 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add places --transport http https://knowchelsea.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://knowchelsea.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.places]
url = "https://knowchelsea.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "places": {
      "url": "https://knowchelsea.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "places": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://knowchelsea.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

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

places

list_places

Curated places in Chelsea, optionally filtered by category, use-case tag or featured picks. Each result links to its https://knowchelsea.com/place/{slug} page; ranked pages live at https://knowchelsea.com/best/{category}.

search_places

Filter curated Chelsea places by category, sub-zone, tags, featured picks or text, ranked like https://knowchelsea.com/best/{category}. Every field carries its source; addresses, coordinates, hours, websites and photos are not included, so follow each place url for them. open_now only matches owner-supplied or official-site hours, and none are recorded yet.

compare

compare_places

Side-by-side sourced records for 2 to 4 Chelsea places by slug, with the tags they share.

guide

get_guide

One published Chelsea guide by slug: its introduction and its ranked places, every field sourced.

guides

list_guides

Published Chelsea themed guides (https://knowchelsea.com/guides/{slug}), with sourced titles, summaries and place counts.

nearby

nearby_places

Nearest curated Chelsea places to a WGS84 coordinate supplied in the request, with distance in metres.

place

get_place

Full editorial record for one Chelsea place by slug, including the guide's description and the public /place URL.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://knowchelsea.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	215 ms	16 min ago

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KnowChelsea — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can KnowChelsea do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_places, get_guide, get_place, list_guides, list_places, nearby_places and 1 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 KnowChelsea working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 90 of 91 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 242 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect KnowChelsea?

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 KnowChelsea need an API key?

No. KnowChelsea completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is KnowChelsea?

It answers our handshake in 242 ms on average, which is faster than 56% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.