Real-time MIT dining hall menus with dietary filtering across all 6 halls
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. Mit MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. Real-time MIT dining hall menus with dietary filtering across all 6 halls.
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, plan your meals for the week, or whether if the menus are mid.
The server publishes 5 tools. What each one is for:
get_todays_menus — All 6 halls, today's menusget_hall_menu — Single hall, optional dateget_weekly_menus — 7-day lookahead for one hallfilter_menus_by_diet — Filter by dietary preferenceParameters — The Parameters tool exposed by this serverInstallation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at mit-dining-mcp on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
One of: - Node.js 18+ - Bun - Deno 2+
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Mit's toolset — get_todays_menus, get_hall_menu, get_weekly_menus and 2 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by hongnoul; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Mit's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_todays_menus | All 6 halls, today's menus |
| get_hall_menu | Single hall, optional date |
| get_weekly_menus | 7-day lookahead for one hall |
| filter_menus_by_diet | Filter by dietary preference |
| Parameters | The Parameters tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"mit-dining": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mit-dining-mcp"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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