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Zomato MCP Server

The Zomato MCP server brings India's largest food ordering experience directly into Claude. Discover restaurants near you based on your taste, browse menus with up-to-date pricing and ratings, and build your cart in seconds. Place orders, track deliveries in real time, and pay securely with QR codes, all in one conversation. From craving to doorstep, every step of the ordering journey is collapsed into a single AI-powered workflow.

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

Categorised under commerce. Published by zomato.com.

Status

Pod has not dialled Zomato yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp-server.zomato.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zomato-2": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp-server.zomato.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Known issues

50 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 12.

Most discussed

Feature Request: Support for Corporate Orders

Feature Request

Description

Add support for corporate orders in the create_cart API. Currently, the Zomato app has a toggle on the checkout page to switch between personal and corporate orders, but this option is not available through the MCP API.

Current Behavior

The create_cart tool only accepts these parameters:

  • res_id (required)
  • items (required)
  • address_id (required)
  • promo_code (optional)
  • payment_type (optional: upi_qr or pay_later)

Attempting to add

Read the thread · 2026-01-26 · open · external user · 4 comments

Unable to authenticate Zomato MCP server from VS Code — always returns invalid_token

I’m trying to use the Zomato MCP server from Visual Studio Code, but I am unable to authenticate.

2025-11-18 13:59:48.348 [info] Starting server zomato-mcp 2025-11-18 13:59:48.358 [info] Connection state: Starting 2025-11-18 13:59:48.358 [info] Starting server from LocalProcess extension host 2025-11-18 13:59:48.362 [info] Connection state: Running 2025-11-18 13:59:48.856 [info] Populated auth metadata 2025-11-18 13:59:48.977 [info] Connection state: Error 401 status sending message to https:

Read the thread · 2025-11-18 · open · external user · 3 comments

Not connecting to the MCP

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Getting following error

2025-10-30T03:05:16.736Z [zomato-mcp] [info] Initializing server... { metadata: undefined } 2025-10-30T03:05:16.761Z [zomato-mcp] [info] Using MCP server command: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe with args and path: { metadata: { args: [ '/C', 'npx', 'mcp-remote', 'https://mcp-server.zomato.com/mcp', [length]:

Read the thread · 2025-10-30 · closed · external user · 4 comments

Location type being "unknown"

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Not sure if its an issue just for me, but unable to go ahead of the "fetching restaurants" step!

-- what does Object here means ?

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Read the thread · 2025-10-29 · open · external user · 5 comments

Bug: MCP server fails to parse complex object parameters - receives strings instead of parsed JSON

Description

The Zomato MCP server is not properly parsing complex JSON object parameters according to the MCP protocol specification. All location-dependent tools fail with the same validation error: parameters are received as strings instead of parsed objects.

Affected Tools

All tools that accept complex object parameters fail, including:

  • get_restaurants_for_keyword
  • get_all_restaurants
  • get_search_order_history
  • create_cart
  • get_restaurant_menu_by_category
  • All other

Read the thread · 2025-10-26 · closed · external user · 6 comments

Most recent

create_cart API missing restaurant_packaging_charges in charge_breakdown

Bug: Restaurant Packaging Charges Not Exposed in API Response

Problem

The create_cart API's charge_breakdown does not include restaurant packaging charges. This causes AI agents to show incorrect final price estimates to users.

Observed Behaviour

charge_breakdown returns:

  • CHARGE_ID_PLATFORM (platform fee)
  • CHARGE_ID_DELIVERY_CHARGE (delivery fee)
  • TAX_ID_CART (GST)

Missing: Restaurant packaging charges (set by the restaurant, e.g. ₹21.04)

Impact

  • Agent estimate

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · open · external user · 0 comments

Request to Whitelist OAuth Redirect URI for Zomato MCP Integration

Hi Zomato team,

We’re building a Zomato MCP integration for NINGenie, our agentic AI application that helps users execute tasks across connected services through chat.

As part of this integration, we want to allow users to search for restaurants through the Zomato MCP server, while authenticating securely with their own Zomato account using per-user OAuth.

App URL: https://app.nin.in

Redirect URI to whitelist: https://connect.nin.in/api/v1/oauth/callback

User flow:

  1. User opens NINGenie

Read the thread · 2026-06-10 · open · external user · 0 comments

Mcp not working in chatgpt

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fails on chatgpt when tried to explore restaurant in chatgpt . tried reauth also still same issue

Read the thread · 2026-06-08 · open · external user · 0 comments

create_cart only accepts one modifier group per cart; optional (paid) groups rejected with ModifierGroupMetaMissing

Summary

create_cart cannot build a correctly-customized cart for items that use modifier groups (Subway, KFC, etc.). Two concrete constraints:

  1. Only a single modifier group is accepted per create_cart call. Selecting multiple options within one group works, but as soon as add_ons span two or more groups, the call fails with ModifierGroupMetaMissing.
  2. Optional groups (min_selection = 0) are rejected outright — even when passed alone. This is where all **paid add

Read the thread · 2026-06-05 · open · external user · 1 comment

enterprise support

Please allow payments using enterprise budgets

Read the thread · 2026-05-16 · open · external user · 0 comments

The MCP fails on nutrition oriented discovery.

Questions like: Find vegetarian rolls with at least 25 grams protein and no rice. Don't work. This data is visible on zomato's interface so it shouldn't be too difficult to give the model these data points too. Currently it barely serves as a helpful tool because if I know what I want to eat and from where then AI only helps the user marginally.

Read the thread · 2026-05-13 · open · external user · 1 comment

Support for Business Orders

Hi team, can we have support for enterprise orders please?

Read the thread · 2026-05-12 · open · external user · 0 comments

See all 24 reports Pod holds for Zomato — of 50 qualified upstream.

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