mit-dining-mcp

An MCP server that provides real-time MIT dining hall menus from all 6 Bon Appétit locations. Ask Claude what's for dinner, filter by dietary needs, or plan your meals for the week.

Install

claude mcp add mit-dining -- bunx mit-dining-mcp

Or if you prefer to clone locally:

git clone https://github.com/hongnoul/mit-dining-mcp.git
cd mit-dining-mcp
bun install
claude mcp add mit-dining -- bun run /path/to/mit-dining-mcp/src/index.ts

Tools

| Tool | Description | Example prompt | |------|-------------|----------------| | get_todays_menus | All 6 halls, today's menus | "What's for dinner at MIT tonight?" | | get_hall_menu | Single hall, optional date | "What's on the menu at Maseeh tomorrow?" | | get_weekly_menus | 7-day lookahead for one hall | "What's the menu at Simmons this week?" | | filter_menus_by_diet | Filter by dietary preference | "Find vegan options at Next House" |

Parameters

get_hall_menu

• hall (required): baker, maseeh, mccormick, new-vassar, next-house, simmons
• date (optional): YYYY-MM-DD format

get_weekly_menus

• hall (required): same as above

filter_menus_by_diet

• diet (required): vegetarian, vegan, halal, kosher, gluten-free
• hall (optional): limit to one hall
• date (optional): YYYY-MM-DD format

Dining halls

| Key | Name | |-----|------| | baker | Baker Dining | | maseeh | The Howard Dining Hall at Maseeh | | mccormick | McCormick Dining | | new-vassar | New Vassar Dining | | next-house | Next Dining | | simmons | Simmons Dining |

How it works

MIT's dining is run by Bon Appétit, whose website embeds structured menu data (Bamco.menu_items and Bamco.dayparts) as JSON in <script> tags. This server scrapes and parses that data — no API key needed.

Menus are cached in-memory for 1 hour to avoid repeated requests.

Requirements

• Bun runtime

License

MIT