search_venues
Search venues
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Search Dim Hour's restaurant, bar and venue catalog. Pass city to search one city, or OMIT city to search more than 20,000 venues 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.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| city | string | no | City name or key, e.g. 'NYC', 'dallas'. OMIT to search ALL cities at once. |
| query | string | no | Free text; every content word must appear in name, cuisine, neighborhood, tags, dishes, or description (filler like 'best'/'tonight' is ignored). One strong keyword beats a full sentence. |
| neighborhood | string | no | Filter to a neighborhood (substring match) |
| cuisine | string | no | Filter to a cuisine (substring match) |
| max_price | integer | no | Max price tier 1-4 ($-$$$$) |
| min_score | number | no | Minimum quality score 0-100 |
| happy_hour_only | boolean | no | Only venues with happy hour info |
| awards_contains | string | no | Only venues whose awards field matches, e.g. 'michelin', 'james beard', 'bib gourmand' |
| iconic_only | boolean | no | Only 'Iconic 50' venues (NYC has these today) |
| trending_only | boolean | no | Only trending venues |
| limit | integer | no | Max results, default 10 |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"city": {
"type": "string",
"description": "City name or key, e.g. 'NYC', 'dallas'. OMIT to search ALL cities at once."
},
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Free text; every content word must appear in name, cuisine, neighborhood, tags, dishes, or description (filler like 'best'/'tonight' is ignored). One strong keyword beats a full sentence."
},
"neighborhood": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Filter to a neighborhood (substring match)"
},
"cuisine": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Filter to a cuisine (substring match)"
},
"max_price": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 4,
"description": "Max price tier 1-4 ($-$$$$)"
},
"min_score": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 100,
"description": "Minimum quality score 0-100"
},
"happy_hour_only": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Only venues with happy hour info"
},
"awards_contains": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Only venues whose awards field matches, e.g. 'michelin', 'james beard', 'bib gourmand'"
},
"iconic_only": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Only 'Iconic 50' venues (NYC has these today)"
},
"trending_only": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Only trending venues"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 25,
"description": "Max results, default 10"
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}