Food Recipe MCP Server

Semantic search over 50,000+ food recipes — built for AI agents and LLMs. Two-stage hybrid retrieval (dense + sparse BM25, fused via RRF) with

Remote serverstreamable-httpPython

What is the Food Recipe MCP MCP server?

Semantic search over 50,000+ food recipes — built for AI agents and LLMs. Two-stage hybrid retrieval (dense + sparse BM25, fused via RRF) with cross-encoder reranking. Supports natural language queries in Norwegian and English. The food recipe mcp mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 2 defined tools rather than through you.

Its toolset

Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:

  • search_recipes — Semantic search over 50,000+ recipes from Food.com with hybrid retrieval and reranking
  • ping — The ping tool exposed by this server

Adding it to your client

Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.

When to reach for it

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Food Recipe MCP's toolset — search_recipes, ping — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by aidatanordic; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Caveats

  • Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the food recipe mcp mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
search_recipesSemantic search over 50,000+ recipes from Food.com with hybrid retrieval and reranking.
pingThe ping tool exposed by this server.

How to install the Food Recipe MCP MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "food-recipe": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Food Recipe MCP to search recipes.
  • Use Food Recipe MCP to ping.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Food Recipe MCP to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 2 tools (search_recipes, ping) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Food Recipe MCP directly.