by riordan 7 hours ago
The dataset of menus and items is all hand labeled and verified at menus.nypl.org.
I was about to link to the same "What's on the Menu" site, which I remembered being an impressive site for library digitization project years ago, but it was apparently retired in January 2025.
Now [1] redirects to [2], essentially an About page with links to the data.
[2]: https://www.nypl.org/research/support/whats-on-the-menu
[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20241222134751/https://menus.nyp...
To be fair we were done transcribing and double verifying in about 2015. We’d get a batch of new menus from the imaging team, tweet it and no matter the size it’d be gone in about an hour.