Data Exports

Hello data! Below you'll find periodic zipped exports of the all the menus in the What's on the Menu? database, as well as the dishes transcribed from those menus (with prices if they have them). At this point, the data is raw and unrefined, but it should be ample material with which to begin. Analyze, visualize, interpret, build tools, games, whatever you can think up — lets begin to wrap our collective heads around this resource we're creating. If you make something cool, we'd love to know about it, so give us a shout. In addition to future releases (the link below should refresh every week or so), we hope this page will eventually serve as a gallery, or directory, of interesting applications of menus data. Get in touch with projects, questions or feedback of any kind at menus@nypl.org.

Format note: Each dish record represents a unique instance of the dish appearing on a menu (the MENU_ID field in the dishes export is the foreign key to the ID field in the menus export) and includes that menu's price and position on the menu.

Download Menus Data

nypl_menus_exports_2011-11-13.zip

nypl_menus_exports_2011-07-24.zip

nypl_menus_exports_2011-08-21.zip

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