As of November 11, 2026, Moodap tracks 21,916 open restaurants, bars, cafés, spas and things to do across 45 Manhattan neighborhoods. Since October 1, we have confirmed 908 more as closed for good: 781 in October, when our first full pass caught up on closings our older records had missed, and 127 from November 1 to 10. Those dates are when we confirmed each closing, not when the doors shut.
This page explains where those numbers come from. Every data post we publish links back here, so you can see how we counted before you quote us.
What we cover
Manhattan only, for now. Every place on Moodap sits in one of 45 Manhattan neighborhoods, which you can browse on our neighborhood pages. We don’t track Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx or Staten Island yet, so none of our numbers describe them.
We also keep 1,226 places that have closed for good. Their pages stay up with a clear “Closed for good” sign, so someone looking for an old favorite finds out it has shut. They are left out of every count of open places.
Where the data comes from
No single source gets every place right. So we combine five, compare them against each other, and keep a record of what each one said.
Google Maps listings. Our main source for names, addresses, opening hours and whether a place is open. Between October 1 and November 10, 2026, we re-read the Google listing of 20,803 Manhattan venues.
The venue’s own website. Used for menus, prices and how the place describes itself.
New York City and State public records. The city’s restaurant inspection results and the state’s liquor license records, both published as open data. We use them to spot places that may have opened or closed.
Owners. Business owners can claim their page and update it themselves. What an owner writes about their place comes first.
Visitors. Every venue page has a “Something wrong with this listing?” box. Those reports come straight to our team.
How often we check
Our update system runs every night. Each night it re-checks a batch of 250 venues, and the ones most likely to be out of date go first: places a city or state record says may have closed, and places missing the most details. We also run larger catch-up checks. Between October 1 and November 10, the nightly batches and catch-ups together re-read 20,840 Manhattan venues.
Every change the system makes is logged with the date, the source and the rule that allowed it, so any change can be traced and undone.
How we decide a place has closed
Saying a business has closed is a serious claim, so we mark a place closed for good only when Google Maps lists it as permanently closed, when Google and a city or state record agree, or when a person on our team confirms it. Of the 908 places we marked closed for good between October 1 and November 10, 819 came from Google’s listing alone, 78 from Google plus a public record, and 11 from a person on our team.
Temporary closures work the same way. When Google lists a place as temporarily closed, we mark it and check again later. In the same period we marked 716 places temporarily closed; 24 of them have since been confirmed closed for good.
One thing to know before quoting closure numbers: the date we record is the day we confirmed a closing, not the day the doors shut. Our first full pass in October caught up on closings our older records had missed, so October was not a normal month.
New openings
Each night the system also reads the last 60 days of new city restaurant inspections and new state liquor licenses in Manhattan, and lists the places we don’t have yet. Since that check started on October 30, it has found 245: 127 from liquor licenses and 118 from first inspections.
A license or an inspection is not an opening. A place can get its license weeks before it opens, or never open at all. So we call these “new licenses and first inspections”, and a person checks each one before it goes on Moodap.
Hours and tags
17,490 of the 21,916 open places (80%) have opening hours on Moodap. When we count what’s open late, we use only places with hours for the whole week, so partial listings don’t skew the result.
Each place also carries tags for its feel and who it suits, like date night, groups or solo. Nearly every open place has feel tags, and 7,240 have “best for” tags. Tags come from each place’s listing, reviews and website, partly with AI, and we check samples by hand.
What our data can’t tell you
It covers Manhattan only. One in five open places has no opening hours yet. Google can be slow to mark a closing, and sometimes it’s wrong. And every number is a snapshot: each post gives the date its numbers were pulled, and places change after that.
Using our data
Journalists, researchers and writers are welcome to quote our numbers. Please link to the post you’re quoting, or to this page.
Cite this data: Moodap, 2026 (moodap.com).
Press and questions: hi@moodap.com. Spotted a mistake? Use the box on the venue’s page or email us, and we’ll fix it. Our media kit has logos and screenshots.
For more figures you can quote, see Manhattan by the numbers, or browse places by neighborhood and category.
— The Moodap Team