What's open right now
whats_open_nowWhat is actually open in an East End town at this moment, and until when — computed from verified opening hours against the East End's own clock (America/New_York), not yours and not UTC. Call this for anything phrased as now, right now, still open, tonight, this late: you cannot know it, and the clock you would reason from is the wrong one. Results are ordered closing-soonest-first and each carries closesAt, address, phone, and its source with the date we last verified it. Covers restaurants, breakfast, nightlife, wine, wellness, hair salons, ice cream, farm stands and oyster farms. hoursUnknown counts venues in that town whose hours the guide does not hold — they were not considered, so never present the list as everything that is open — and publishedHoursOnly names the ones that publish an hours line we have not parsed, so you can offer them separately and attributed rather than dropping them. When little or nothing is open — late at night, or off-season, which is when this gets asked — opensNext comes back with the venues that open soonest and when, so answer with those and never let it end at "nothing is open". From November to April read seasonalClosureRisk before you answer: venues verified as NOT year-round are held OUT of the open list, because the hours they leave published are the summer table and computing an open-now verdict from it in February is how an assistant sends someone to a shut clam shack. They are not claimed closed either — the guide holds no closing date — so name them as seasonal, say we cannot confirm they are trading this month, and give the phone. It is also why a winter answer is short: most of what a July answer would list is in that array, not absent. Returns up to 10. townScope.recognized: false means the name matched no East End place at all — that empty answer is a not-found, NOT "nothing is open": say the name was not recognised and offer didYouMean.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| town | Yes | A hamlet ('Sag Harbor', 'Montauk') or a whole region ('the Hamptons', 'the North Fork', 'the East End') — a region is answered across every hamlet in it. Pass the asker's own words. | |
| category | No |