Search nearly 20,000 verified restaurants and bars across 24 cities plus the New Mexico region, with venue detail and curated lists.
Scored across 11 tools
Two near-duplicate pairs make tool selection genuinely hard: `fetch` and `get_venue` return the same venue record (differing only in an extra long-form story field), and `search` and `search_venues` both search the same catalog across the same cities. `find_places` adds a third browsing/planning entry point whose description openly says 'prefer this over search_venues', which signals overlap rather than resolving it.
The bulk of the set follows a clear verb_noun pattern (get_venue, get_hours, list_cities, list_new_venues), but two tools break it with bare verbs: `fetch` and `search`. The inconsistency is compounded by the fact that the bare-verb tools are precisely the ones that duplicate their verb_noun siblings (`fetch`/`get_venue`, `search`/`search_venues`).
11 tools is a healthy size for a restaurant discovery and booking catalog, with each major concern (search, venue detail, hours, booking, lists, cities, usage) represented. The count is slightly inflated by two redundant pairs, which could be collapsed to roughly 8-9 tools without losing capability.
The surface covers the discovery lifecycle well: city enumeration, free-text and occasion-based search, editorial lists, new-venue feeds, full venue detail, hours, and booking links with real SevenRooms availability. Gaps are minor — there is no menu/dish-level or geospatial/nearby lookup, and live availability exists only for one booking platform, but agents can work around both via dimhour.com links.
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.
Inputs: id (required). Returns: id, url, text, title, +2 more
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.
Inputs: city (required), limit, max_price, looking_for, +1 more. Returns: city, note, venues, receipt, +2 more
How to book one venue: its booking platform and link from the Dim Hour catalog. For SevenRooms venues only, given a date, it also returns real bookable times from SevenRooms. Times are a snapshot from SevenRooms at checkedAt. No table is held. Confirm on the booking page before telling anyone it is booked. Other platforms (Resy, OpenTable and the rest) return no times and a times_note saying so.
Inputs: id (required), city (required), date, party. Returns: id, url, city, name, +6 more
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.
Inputs: city (required), id, name. Returns: id, url, city, name, +3 more
Your own Dim Hour MCP usage for the current UTC day: total calls, the daily limit for your plan, and calls per tool. Identified callers only (a read-only connection or an API key). Calling it does not count as a call.
Inputs: no named parameters. Returns: day, plan, count, limit, +2 more
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.
Inputs: city (required), id, name. Returns: id, lat, lng, url, +26 more
List the 26 cities Dim Hour covers, with the city key to pass to the other tools.
Inputs: no named parameters. Returns: cities
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.
Inputs: city (required), list_id. Returns: id, city, note, lists, +4 more
Venues recently added to the Dim Hour catalog — across all 26 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.
Inputs: city, days, limit. Returns: city, venues, receipt, showing, +3 more
Search Dim Hour's restaurant, bar and venue catalog across all 26 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.
Inputs: query (required). Returns: receipt, results
Search Dim Hour's restaurant, bar and venue catalog. Pass city to search one city, or OMIT city to search every venue 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.
Inputs: city, sort, limit, query, +9 more. Returns: city, note, scope, venues, +4 more
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