search_restaurants
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Search restaurants by free text, cuisine, neighbourhood, occasion or price, optionally near a point. Use when the user describes what they want (e.g. 'Italian date night in the West Village', 'ramen near me') rather than naming a specific restaurant. Free text matches names, tags, review prose and guide blurbs (e.g. 'cacio e pepe'). Returns compact matches with Infatuation rating (0–10), price tier, address and tags. Known-closed venues are excluded by default. Coverage for city='new-york' is the five boroughs plus the immediate metro (within 30 km of Manhattan). With no query or filters, returns the highest-rated venues.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | no | Free text, e.g. 'date-night Italian' |
| city | string | yes | City slug, always required. Currently 'new-york', covering the five boroughs plus the immediate metro (within 30 km of Manhattan). |
| cuisine | string | no | e.g. 'Italian', 'ramen' |
| neighborhood | string | no | e.g. 'West Village', or a borough like 'Brooklyn' |
| occasion | string | no | Occasion tag. Allowed: 'Date Nights', 'Happy Hours', 'Pre-Theater', 'See & Be Seen', 'Serious Takeout Operation', 'Unique Dining Experiences', 'Wasting Your Time & Money'. Hyphens and spaces are flexible ('date-night' works). |
| min_rating | number | no | Minimum Infatuation rating |
| price_tier | integer | no | 1 ($) to 4 ($$$$) |
| include_closed | boolean | no | Include known-closed venues (default false) |
| lat | number | no | Latitude for proximity search. Must be given together with lng; radius_km defaults to 5 km when omitted. A location outside the NYC coverage area is rejected with an error. |
| lng | number | no | Longitude for proximity search. Must be given together with lat; radius_km defaults to 5 km when omitted. |
| radius_km | number | no | Search radius in kilometres (default 5 when lat/lng are given without it). Requires lat and lng. |
| sort | string | no | Sort by rating (default) or guide appearances |
| limit | integer | no | Max results (default 10) |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"query": {
"description": "Free text, e.g. 'date-night Italian'",
"type": "string"
},
"city": {
"type": "string",
"description": "City slug, always required. Currently 'new-york', covering the five boroughs plus the immediate metro (within 30 km of Manhattan)."
},
"cuisine": {
"description": "e.g. 'Italian', 'ramen'",
"type": "string"
},
"neighborhood": {
"description": "e.g. 'West Village', or a borough like 'Brooklyn'",
"type": "string"
},
"occasion": {
"description": "Occasion tag. Allowed: 'Date Nights', 'Happy Hours', 'Pre-Theater', 'See & Be Seen', 'Serious Takeout Operation', 'Unique Dining Experiences', 'Wasting Your Time & Money'. Hyphens and spaces are flexible ('date-night' works).",
"type": "string"
},
"min_rating": {
"description": "Minimum Infatuation rating",
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 10
},
"price_tier": {
"description": "1 ($) to 4 ($$$$)",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 4
},
"include_closed": {
"description": "Include known-closed venues (default false)",
"type": "boolean"
},
"lat": {
"description": "Latitude for proximity search. Must be given together with lng; radius_km defaults to 5 km when omitted. A location outside the NYC coverage area is rejected with an error.",
"type": "number"
},
"lng": {
"description": "Longitude for proximity search. Must be given together with lat; radius_km defaults to 5 km when omitted.",
"type": "number"
},
"radius_km": {
"description": "Search radius in kilometres (default 5 when lat/lng are given without it). Requires lat and lng.",
"type": "number",
"exclusiveMinimum": 0
},
"sort": {
"description": "Sort by rating (default) or guide appearances",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"rating",
"guides"
]
},
"limit": {
"description": "Max results (default 10)",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 50
}
},
"required": [
"city"
]
}