What's on the menu?

NYPL human-transcribed historical menu collection

What’s on the menu? publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Food And Drink and Public APIs.

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5.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

1 APIs

Food And DrinkPublic APIs

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

Composite quality — 5.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

What's on the menu?

NYPL human-transcribed historical menu collection

Resources

Company 1

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Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

PublicAPIsListing

PublicAPIsListing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: whats-on-the-menu
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/whats-on-the-menu.png
name: What's on the menu?
description: NYPL human-transcribed historical menu collection
url: http://nypl.github.io/menus-api/
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-05-28'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-category: Food & Drink
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: bulk-registered-from-public-apis
tags:
- Food And Drink
- Public APIs
apis:
- name: What's on the menu?
  description: NYPL human-transcribed historical menu collection
  humanURL: http://nypl.github.io/menus-api/
  baseURL: http://nypl.github.io/menus-api/
  tags:
  - Food And Drink
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: http://nypl.github.io/menus-api/
common:
- type: Website
  url: http://nypl.github.io/menus-api/
- type: PublicAPIsListing
  url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com