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Food festival data released as free API, MCP server, and SQL

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TableJourney has released a comprehensive dataset of food festival dates, covering 1,376 festivals across 55 countries. This data is accessible through multiple free channels, including a REST API, an MCP server for AI assistants, and SQL queries via DoltHub. The dataset stores recurrence rules rather than fixed dates to ensure accuracy over time, with sources and last-checked dates provided for each festival. Additionally, the project offers data on signature dishes and dining recommendations for various cities. AI

IMPACT Provides structured data for AI assistants to plan travel and discover events.

RANK_REASON This is a release of a data product and API, not a core AI model or research.

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Food festival data released as free API, MCP server, and SQL

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Elliot Marsh ·

    Food festival dates as open data: a free API, an MCP server and SQL

    <p>Every year I hit the same problem planning food trips: festival listings tell you a festival exists, but not when the next one is. Pages still show last year's dates, or say "every autumn".</p> <p>So at TableJourney we keep the next dates of 1,376 food festivals in 55 countrie…

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