❔ About

At Nouméa, I have a kind of "fétiche" restaurant called "Au p'tit café"

They :

• 👐 Are very kind people : I love spend time there (at least once a week)
• 🧑‍🍳 Have awesome creative and tasty menus
• Have a unique management approach and have implemented a 4.5 days work week:

Au P’tit Café, une semaine de quatre jours et demi – DNC.NC

Le restaurant de Nouméa est ouvert du mardi au vendredi. Le lundi, une partie de l’équipe profite d’un jour de repos, tandis qu’une autre prépare des plats à emporter. Les 12 employés et gérants tentent ainsi de concilier passion, travail et vie personnelle. Pas la peine de réserver une table […]

dnc.nc

What is very convenient is that their website describes very well its menus for the week, with a core philosophy:

• 🤏 Few menus
• ☝️ Focused on high quality and fresh food

I do often go and read their website:

Menu sur place - Au p'tit café | 28.21.89

auptitcafe.nc

🤔 Inception

... and was wondering if I could build something "nerdy" around it...(for example play with it from my terminal 🤓)

💡 The idea

As I did never create a Python package, I finally decided to :

1. Create & release a dedicated poetry package that would get the menus data... so anyone could have fun with it (with a very few set of lines of code)
2. Get the menu's datas as pandas dataframe... and csv

💭 Why Python ?

As Python is very widely used to create many things like:

• 🦜 Create langchain tools to build applications with LLMs through composability so we could chat with menus ... for example with the CSV Agent
• 🤪 Any other crazy and fun stuff (with GPU) on Kaggle or Google Colab'
• ⚡ Learn to create API with FastAPI on top of this SDK
• 🤗 Play with Hugging Face Transformers Agent

🤓 Do it

I finally created the package :

# Install the package
!pip install auptitcafe --upgrade
# Make some imports
from auptitcafe.menus import Menus
import pandas as pd

# Create the main utility instance
menu_instance = Menus()

# Dump menus as a csv file
menus = 'menus.csv'
menu_instance.to_csv(menus)

# Load menus in a panda dataframe
df = pd.read_csv

... then released it on pypi:

auptitcafe · PyPI

SDK pour interagir avec http://auptitcafe.nc/menu/

pypi.org

Finally, it became as easy as follows to get menus as data:

# Install the package
!pip install auptitcafe

# Make some imports
from auptitcafe.menus import Menus
import pandas as pd

# Create the main utility instance
menu_instance = Menus()

# Dump menus as a csv file
menus = 'menus.csv'
menu_instance.to_csv(menus)

# Load menus in a pandas dataframe
df = pd.read_csv(menus)
# Diplay dataframe
df
# Be creative with dataframe 

🕹️ Enjoy the data on Kaggle

🍿 Demo

📑 Resources

• adriens/auptitcafe-sdk
• auptitcafe on pypi
• "Au p'tit café" website
• Package demo on Kaggle
• "Au p'tit café" on Tripadvisor