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Dish Directory

Dish Directory is an online platform that aggregates restaurant listings across the United States, providing detailed information on cuisines, contact details, menus, and user reviews. It helps users discover and compare over 12,000 restaurants, offering data sourced from public listings and partner integrations. The service emphasizes accurate, up-to-date restaurant data and aims to simplify the search for dining options.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Dish Directory the way a machine reads it — 24 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Dish Directory scores 42.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
Dish Directory Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Dish Directory

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Dish Directory. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 10

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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

Dish Directory Academy API

The Academy API from Dish Directory — 2 operation(s) for academy.

Dish Directory Admin API

The Admin API from Dish Directory — 138 operation(s) for admin.

Dish Directory Categories API

The Categories API from Dish Directory — 1 operation(s) for categories.

Dish Directory Certificates API

The Certificates API from Dish Directory — 1 operation(s) for certificates.

Dish Directory Listings API

The Listings API from Dish Directory — 2 operation(s) for listings.

Dish Directory Places API

The Places API from Dish Directory — 1 operation(s) for places.

Dish Directory Product Categories API

The Product Categories API from Dish Directory — 1 operation(s) for product categories.

Dish Directory Products API

The Products API from Dish Directory — 2 operation(s) for products.

Dish Directory Sources API

The Sources API from Dish Directory — 1 operation(s) for sources.

Dish Directory Stats API

The Stats API from Dish Directory — 1 operation(s) for stats.

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Dish Directory MCP Server

Remote MCP server at dishdirectory.com.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Dishdirectory Com Context

14 classes · 85 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Dish Directory API Rules

45 rules · 37 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Certificate

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CourseDetail

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Course

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListingItem

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Listing

27 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Product

20 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Dishdirectory Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Dishdirectory Com Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Dishdirectory Com Agentic Access

219 operations · 134 acting · 17 human-in-the-loop

219 operations · 134 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Dish Directory — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Dish Directory, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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