# Espresso MCP MCP Server

Find great espresso cafes worldwide with curated data and transparent quality scoring.

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## Status

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## Connect

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:

1. Bump version in \`package.json\` AND \`server.json\` (must match)
2. \`npm publish --access public\`
3. \`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](https://github.com/mattgierhart/espresso-mcp/issues/9) · 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](https://github.com/mattgierhart/espresso-mcp/issues/8) · 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](https://github.com/mattgierhart/espresso-mcp/issues/7) · 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](https://github.com/mattgierhart/espresso-mcp/issues/6) · 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](https://github.com/mattgierhart/espresso-mcp/issues/5) · 2026-05-18 · open · 0 comments

### Most recent

### 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

```jsonc
{
  "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

[See all 9 reports Pod holds for Espresso MCP](/mcp/espresso-mcp/issues).

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