Easily search hospitality products like dishes and drinks. With market analytics you stay on top of the latest trends, price movements and other statistics.
The same indexed data powers consumer search, business price analysis and the developer API.
Find where your favourite dish is on the menu, filter by city, price or diet and compare merchants side by side.
Business plans get aggregated statistics: average, minimum and maximum price per dish and per period.
Build your own app on our REST API, connect your AI agent through MCP or ask questions in plain language. The same source.
Everything in the plans, explained here. One reliable source, safely stored in the European Union and delivered the way you want.
All your data lives on servers within the European Union. Storage, processing and back-ups all stay within European borders, in line with the GDPR. Nothing is transferred to data centres outside the EU.
Query the full catalogue through a clear REST API. You authenticate with personal bearer tokens and stay in control of who gets access.
Aggregated figures per dish, section and region: average, minimum and maximum. See at a glance how the market moves.
We keep every menu with a full version history. Compare today with last season and reconstruct every price change.
Get a real-time heads-up when prices or dishes change. Push the change straight to your own systems via webhooks.
Connect your AI agent directly to the catalogue through the Model Context Protocol. The same source, now queryable in plain language.
Authenticate with a bearer token and query restaurants, dishes or price statistics. Predictable JSON, ready for your product.
# Average price of spareribs
curl https://menu-item.com/api/v1/dishes/stats \
-d name=spareribs \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…"
{
"sample_size": 11,
"currency": "EUR",
"average_price": 24.80,
"min_price": 19.50,
"max_price": 31.00
}From searching in the web app to the full data in your own product.
View the data and compare your prices in the web app.
Build the data into your own product.
All data, trends and request cities yourself.
Prices are indicative, excl. VAT. Paid plans are coming soon.
A consumer app that uses the menu item API to find dishes nearby. An independent service, and living proof that our data fits into any product.
Visit menuutje.beYour app here? Get in touch.
We are a small team in Bruges making hospitality searchable. Two open roles, with plenty of room to shape things yourself.
You help build the heart of menu item: the extraction pipeline, the API and MCP server, and the search experience itself. From data model to interface.
You expand coverage city by city: tracking down menus, monitoring extraction and keeping data quality high. You are the face towards the merchants.
No match but still keen? Send an open application.
menu item is a searchable database of hospitality menus. We turn public menus into structured data (dish, description, price and category), so you can search by dish and price instead of by the name of the merchant.
From publicly available menus on the merchants' own websites, as PDF or web page. We keep every menu as a source, so you can check exactly which file we read.
We re-index periodically. When a menu changes, we keep the new version alongside the old one. That way we build a price history per dish instead of just a snapshot.
We start in Belgium and expand city by city. The figures on this page are the real, current coverage, not estimates.
Yes. Business users can query restaurants, dishes and price statistics through a REST API and, for AI agents, through an MCP server. The same source powers both the app and external products.
Great that you're paying attention. Menus change all the time, so now and then a price or dish is no longer correct. Let us know at [email protected] and we'll check it and fix it quickly. That way we keep the data sharp together.
Start in Belgium, scale out to the rest of Europe. Consumers, analysts and developers, all on the same source.