🚀 Unified Restaurant Search - One Endpoint for Everything!

**The ultimate restaurant search endpoint** that handles natural language queries, structured filters, and everything in between. **🎯 How it works:** - **Natural Language**: Just type what you want like "italian restaurants" or "best pizza near me" - **Structured Filters**: Use specific parameters for precise control - **Smart Parsing**: Automatically understands your intent and applies the best strategy - **Proper Sorting**: Results are intelligently ranked by relevance, rating, and distance **🔍 Natural Language Examples:** - `?q=italian restaurants` → Finds Italian restaurants - `?q=best pizza near me` → Finds top-rated pizza places nearby - `?q=romantic dinner spots` → Finds romantic restaurants - `?q=cheap sushi with delivery` → Finds affordable sushi with delivery **📍 Location Parameters:** - `lat/lng`: Your coordinates (decimal degrees) - `radius`: Search radius in meters (default: 5000, max: 50000) **🍽️ Preference Parameters:** - `cuisines`: italian,chinese,mexican,indian,thai,french,american - `priceLevel`: 1=$ (budget), 2=$$ (moderate), 3=$$$ (expensive), 4=$$$$ (luxury) - `features`: wifi,parking,delivery,takeout,reservations,outdoor,halal,vegan - `tags`: romantic,family-friendly,business,casual,fine-dining,popular **🎭 Context Parameters:** - `breakfast`: Morning dining (6-11 AM optimized) - `lunch`: Midday meals (11 AM-3 PM optimized) - `dinner`: Evening dining (5-10 PM optimized) - `late_night`: Late hours (10 PM+ optimized) - `date_night`: Romantic atmosphere, upscale - `family`: Kid-friendly, spacious, parking - `business`: Quiet, wifi, professional atmosphere **🧮 Advanced Features:** - `useBayesian=true`: Enable probabilistic modeling for better accuracy - `userId`: Enable personalized recommendations (header: x-user-id) **⚡ Performance:** - **< 50ms**: Hot cache hits - **< 150ms**: Cold cache with database query - **< 500ms**: Complex multi-strategy analysis - **Redis caching**: 5-30 minute TTL based on data type **🎯 Smart Strategy Selection:** - Natural language queries → NLP parsing + content-based - Location + preferences → Hybrid approach - Location only → Location-popular - User ID + preferences → Collaborative filtering - Context only → Context-aware - Default → Popular restaurants **📊 Response Format:** - `restaurants`: Array of restaurants with proper sorting - `strategy`: Which strategy was used - `executionTime`: Response time in milliseconds - `fromCache`: Whether result came from cache - `totalResults`: Total number of matching restaurants - `query`: Parsed query information (for natural language queries)

Query parameters

qstringOptional
userIdstringOptional
latstringOptional
lngstringOptional
radiusstringOptional
cuisinesstringOptional
priceLevelstringOptional
featuresstringOptional
tagsstringOptional
useBayesianstringOptional
context"breakfast" or "lunch" or "dinner" or "late_night" or "date_night" or "family" or "business"Optional
limitstringOptional
openNowstringOptional
timezoneOffsetstringOptional
mealTypestringOptional
offsetstringOptional
pagestringOptional
dietaryRestrictionsstringOptional
minRatingstringOptional

Response

This endpoint returns an object.