AllMenus API: Is There One? Menu Data Access Options (2026)

# 1. Fetch one city's restaurant menus as JSON.
#    Swap the host for whichever menu feed you are using.
curl -sS "https://menu-api.example.com/v1/restaurants?city=austin-tx&per_page=25" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MENU_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -o austin-menus.json

# 2. Check the response shape before writing any parsing code.
jq '.data[0] | {
      name:  .location.name,
      items: [.menus[0].items[:3][] | {name, price}]
    }' austin-menus.json

# 3. Count the menu items you actually got back.
jq '[.data[].menus[].items[]] | length' austin-menus.json

"""Pull restaurant menu data from a JSON feed and flatten it to one CSV row per item.

    pip install requests
    export MENU_API_KEY=...
    python menu_to_csv.py
"""
import csv
import os

import requests

API_URL = "https://menu-api.example.com/v1/restaurants"
API_KEY = os.environ["MENU_API_KEY"]

FIELDS = [
    "restaurant_name", "address", "cuisine", "menu_name", "category",
    "item_name", "description", "price", "currency", "is_vegetarian",
    "source_url", "collected_at", "last_seen_at",
]


def fetch_restaurants(city, per_page=100):
    """Yield restaurant records, following pagination until the feed is exhausted."""
    session = requests.Session()
    session.headers.update({"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"})
    page = 1
    while True:
        response = session.get(
            API_URL,
            params={"city": city, "page": page, "per_page": per_page},
            timeout=30,
        )
        response.raise_for_status()
        payload = response.json()
        yield from payload["data"]
        if not payload.get("has_more"):
            return
        page += 1


def flatten(restaurant):
    """One row per menu item -- the shape most BI and analytics tools expect."""
    location = restaurant["location"]
    for menu in restaurant.get("menus", []):
        categories = {c["id"]: c["name"] for c in menu.get("categories", [])}
        for item in menu.get("items", []):
            yield {
                "restaurant_name": location["name"],
                "address": location.get("address", ""),
                "cuisine": location.get("cuisine", ""),
                "menu_name": menu.get("name", ""),
                "category": categories.get(item.get("category_id"), ""),
                "item_name": item["name"],
                "description": item.get("description", ""),
                "price": item.get("price"),
                "currency": item.get("currency", "USD"),
                "is_vegetarian": item.get("is_vegetarian", False),
                # Keep the provenance fields. Without them you cannot tell a
                # current price from a six-month-old one.
                "source_url": restaurant.get("source_url", ""),
                "collected_at": restaurant.get("collected_at", ""),
                "last_seen_at": restaurant.get("last_seen_at", ""),
            }


def main():
    rows = 0
    with open("menu_items.csv", "w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
        writer = csv.DictWriter(handle, fieldnames=FIELDS)
        writer.writeheader()
        for restaurant in fetch_restaurants(city="austin-tx"):
            for row in flatten(restaurant):
                writer.writerow(row)
                rows += 1
    print(f"wrote {rows} menu items to menu_items.csv")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

restaurant_name,address,cuisine,menu_name,category,item_name,price,currency,is_vegetarian,collected_at
Tony's Bistro,"123 Main St, Austin, TX 78701",Italian,Lunch Menu,Appetizers,Bruschetta,7.99,USD,True,2026-09-02T04:15:00Z
Tony's Bistro,"123 Main St, Austin, TX 78701",Italian,Lunch Menu,Main Courses,Chicken Parmesan,18.50,USD,False,2026-09-02T04:15:00Z
Tony's Bistro,"123 Main St, Austin, TX 78701",Italian,Lunch Menu,Beverages,San Pellegrino,3.25,USD,True,2026-09-02T04:15:00Z
Casa Verde,"908 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78702",Mexican,Dinner Menu,Tacos,Al Pastor (3),14.00,USD,False,2026-09-02T04:16:00Z

{
  "location": {
    "id": "12345",
    "name": "Tony's Bistro",
    "address": "123 Main St, Austin, TX 78701",
    "phone": "(512) 555-0100",
    "cuisine": "Italian"
  },
  "source_url": "https://menu-api.example.com/v1/restaurants/12345",
  "collected_at": "2026-09-02T04:15:00Z",
  "last_seen_at": "2026-09-08T04:12:00Z",
  "validation_status": "passed",
  "menus": [
    {
      "id": "m1",
      "name": "Lunch Menu",
      "description": "Served Monday to Friday 11am - 3pm",
      "is_active": true,
      "last_updated": "2026-09-02T04:15:00Z",
      "categories": [
        { "id": "c1", "name": "Appetizers" },
        { "id": "c2", "name": "Main Courses" },
        { "id": "c3", "name": "Beverages" }
      ],
      "items": [
        {
          "id": "i1",
          "category_id": "c1",
          "name": "Bruschetta",
          "description": "Grilled sourdough, tomato, basil, olive oil",
          "price": 7.99,
          "currency": "USD",
          "is_vegetarian": true,
          "is_gluten_free": false
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}