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Opentable

Searches OpenTable, checks table availability, and manages restaurant reservations through MCP.

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Install Opentable

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STDIONode.js
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opentable": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@striderlabs/mcp-opentable"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENTABLE_EMAIL": "YOUR_VALUE_HERE",
        "OPENTABLE_PASSWORD": "YOUR_VALUE_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config, merge this into mcpServers, then fully quit and reopen Claude Desktop.

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npx -y @striderlabs/mcp-opentable

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Overview

The opentable MCP server connects AI agents to OpenTable for restaurant discovery and reservation tasks. It exposes tools to search by location, cuisine, price, rating, dining style, date, time, and party size; inspect restaurants; check availability; book tables; and view reservations. It uses Playwright browser automation rather than a comprehensive public reservations API, with persistent sessions and MFA handling. Reach for it when an agent needs to find and manage OpenTable bookings from a supported MCP client.

Use cases

  • Search for restaurants by cuisine, location, price, and rating
  • Check table availability for a date, time, and party size
  • Make OpenTable reservations with special requests
  • View existing restaurant reservations
  • Manage OpenTable sessions across agent restarts

Key features

  • Restaurant search with multiple filters
  • Availability checks by time and party size
  • Reservation creation
  • Reservation history lookup
  • Persistent encrypted sessions
  • MFA handling

Security & health

What it can reach and how reliably it runs — from our own checks, not the maintainer’s claims.

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Adoption & maintenance

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GitHub stars1Stargazers on the source repository.
npm downloads379Package downloads in the last 30 days.
Last commit6mo agoMost recent push to the default branch.
Install checkInconclusiveStarted but did not complete the MCP handshake in our test.

How Opentable works

What the opentable MCP server does

The opentable MCP server gives an AI agent access to OpenTable restaurant search and reservation workflows. It can find restaurants using location, cuisine, rating, price range, dining style, date, time, and party size filters. After identifying a venue, the agent can retrieve restaurant details, check available times, create a reservation, and retrieve the user's existing reservations.

The booking flow supports party size, date, time, and optional special requests. Reservations use a confirmation step rather than being described as an unattended background process. The server is intended for agents that need to handle both discovery and reservation management through OpenTable.

How it works

The opentable MCP server uses Playwright browser automation to interact with OpenTable. An agent sends structured tool requests, and the connector performs the corresponding OpenTable actions in a browser session.

Account sessions are designed to persist between restarts. The project describes encrypted, per-user credential and session storage, automatic OAuth token refresh, and MFA handling through SMS or email. It also describes browser profiles, rate limiting, UI-change detection, fallback paths, and monitoring as part of the connector architecture.

Setup and configuration

The package can be installed with npm or started directly with npx:

Terminal
npm install @striderlabs/mcp-opentable
npx @striderlabs/mcp-opentable

For Claude Desktop, add an mcpServers entry that runs npx -y @striderlabs/mcp-opentable, then restart Claude. A self-hosted setup is also documented: clone the repository, run npm install, and start it with npm start; the example says the agent can then connect to localhost:3000.

OPENTABLE_EMAIL and OPENTABLE_PASSWORD can be supplied to use a specific OpenTable account. They are presented as optional configuration variables, and the README recommends keeping the password in a .env file rather than exposing it directly in a command.

Tools and capabilities

The documented agent operations are:

  • search_restaurants for filtered restaurant discovery.
  • get_restaurant_details for information about a selected restaurant.
  • check_availability for checking times against party size and date.
  • make_reservation for booking a selected time, including optional special requests.
  • get_my_reservations for viewing the account's reservations.

Search filters include cuisine, location, price range, date, party size, time, and rating. The feature list also mentions filtering by dining style, persistent sessions, automatic MFA handling, and per-user encrypted session storage.

Limitations and notes

The opentable MCP server depends on browser automation and OpenTable's web interface, not a comprehensive public reservation API. Changes to that interface can affect the connector, although the project says it detects UI changes and updates connectors when needed. OpenTable account access is required for account-specific actions such as making or viewing reservations.

The repository identifies the project as MIT licensed. Its compatibility table lists Node.js 18+, MCP SDK 1.0.0 or newer, Claude Desktop, Claude API with Claude 3.5 Sonnet or newer, and Anthropic SDK 0.20 or newer as tested components. The README also reports an 85% or higher task completion rate, but this is a project-reported metric rather than a guarantee for every reservation attempt.

Read the full README View source on GitHub

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Frequently Asked Questions about Opentable

opentable is an MCP server that connects AI agents to OpenTable through browser automation. Its main tools search restaurants, retrieve restaurant details, check availability, make reservations, and list existing bookings. It also supports persistent sessions, encrypted per-user credentials, and MFA handling for account-based workflows.

Install it with npm using `npm install @striderlabs/mcp-opentable`, or run it directly with `npx @striderlabs/mcp-opentable`.

Add an `opentable` entry to Claude Desktop's `mcpServers` configuration that runs `npx` with `-y @striderlabs/mcp-opentable`, then restart Claude. The README provides the complete JSON configuration pattern.

It supports `OPENTABLE_EMAIL` and `OPENTABLE_PASSWORD` for using a specific OpenTable account. The README presents both as optional and recommends storing the password in a `.env` file.

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