Espresso MCP MCP Server
Find great espresso cafes worldwide with curated data and transparent quality scoring.
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Published as espresso-mcp on npm. Runs locally.
Known issues
9 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 6.
Most discussed
chore: GitHub Actions release pipeline — auto npm publish + mcp-publisher
Motivation
Right now, releasing a new version requires 3 manual command sequences:
- Bump version in `package.json` AND `server.json` (must match)
- `npm publish --access public`
- `mcp-publisher publish`
For frequent iteration (especially during testing weeks), automate this via a release workflow triggered on git tags.
Implementation
`.github/workflows/release.yml`:
- Triggered on push of `v*` tag
- Runs typecheck + test + build
- `npm publish --provenance` with OI
Read the thread · 2026-05-18 · open · 0 comments
feat: score_hotel_coffee_access — rank hotels by walkable specialty
Motivation
When booking a hotel for a trip, coffee proximity is genuinely a tiebreaker for many specialty-coffee travelers. Today users manually run `find_espresso_near` for each hotel candidate. A dedicated tool can compare them at once and produce a recommendation.
This is the spiritual successor to the personal-use 'travel-integration' design from the project's prior architecture docs — but adapted for the public MCP server (no calendar integration, no personal coordinates, just hotel→
Read the thread · 2026-05-18 · open · 0 comments
feat: MCP Prompts for city briefs and evaluate-from-menu
Motivation
MCP Prompts let users pick templated requests from the client's prompt menu (visible as quick-pick options in Claude Desktop). Two natural fits for espresso-mcp:
| Prompt | Args | Use case |
|---|---|---|
| `city_coffee_brief` | `{ city }` | 'Brief me on the specialty coffee scene in {city}. Include 3-5 top cafes, key districts, notable roasters, and what to avoid.' |
| `evaluate_from_menu` | `{ menu_description }` | 'Based on this menu description, score the cafe and exp |
Read the thread · 2026-05-18 · open · 0 comments
feat: MCP Resources for roasters, awards, and signal taxonomy
Motivation
MCP Resources let clients enumerate datasets without making tool calls. Adding three resources makes the espresso-mcp surface area more discoverable in clients like Claude Desktop (which surfaces resources in its resource picker UI).
Proposed resources
| URI | Content |
|---|---|
| `espresso://roasters/top` | Top-tier roasters directory (world-class + regional-leader filtered) |
| `espresso://awards/worlds-100-best` | Most recent World's 100 Best Coffee Shops entries from |
Read the thread · 2026-05-18 · open · 0 comments
feat: live OSM/Overpass fallback in find_espresso_near
Motivation
When the curated DB has zero matches for a location (e.g., a city we haven't curated yet — Lisbon, Seoul, Mexico City), `find_espresso_near` returns empty. A live OSM Overpass query can backfill with `amenity=cafe` results, which we then score with the same algorithm.
Caveat: OSM cafe data is noisy
Most `amenity=cafe` entries on OSM are NOT specialty. A naive merge would dilute results badly. We need strict filtering:
- Require ≥2 positive specialty signals derived fro
Read the thread · 2026-05-18 · open · 0 comments
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feat: propose_cafe MCP tool — let users submit cafes via the MCP
Motivation
Right now adding a new cafe requires editing data/cafes.json directly + opening a PR. That's friction for non-developers and for AI clients that want to "learn" new cafes from a website, photo, or in-person observation.
Proposed tool
{
"name": "propose_cafe",
"title": "Propose a New Cafe Entry",
"inputSchema": {
"name": "string",
"city": "string",
"country": "string (ISO-3166 alpha-2)",
"address_or_coords": "string OR { lat, lon }",
"websi
[Read the thread](https://github.com/mattgierhart/espresso-mcp/issues/1) · 2026-05-18 · open · 0 comments
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