Research culinary inspiration from restaurants, food media, and chef profiles. Use when the user wants to cook something inspired by a specific restaurant, cuisine style, chef, or dish. Crawls menus and food content, then outputs an inspiration brief for chef:plan.
Research culinary inspiration from the real world — restaurants, chefs, food media — and produce a structured brief that chef:plan can use as a creative starting point.
Accept any of:
1. WebSearch — find menus, reviews, press coverage, chef interviews
2. WebFetch — extract content from 2–4 high-signal pages
3. Synthesize → inspiration brief
4. Suggest: "pass this to chef:plan to build a meal around it"
Run 2–3 targeted searches:
1. "[restaurant/chef] menu [year]"
2. "[restaurant/chef] signature dishes recipe technique"
3. "[cuisine style] key ingredients techniques [region]"
Prioritize:
Avoid: recipe aggregators (AllRecipes, Tasty) — too generic for this use case.
Fetch 2–4 pages from the search results. For each:
Output a structured brief with these sections:
# Inspiration Brief: [Subject]
## Identity
One paragraph: the restaurant/chef/cuisine's core identity, philosophy, and what makes it distinctive.
## Signature Dishes & Elements
- **[Dish name]**: key ingredients, technique, why it's notable
- **[Dish name]**: ...
## Flavor Profiles
- Dominant: [e.g. "umami-forward, deeply savory"]
- Accent: [e.g. "bright acid from yuzu, herbal freshness"]
- Texture play: [e.g. "crispy skin vs silky interior"]
## Key Techniques
- [Technique]: brief description and when it's used
- ...
## Pantry & Ingredient Signatures
What ingredients define this cooking style that you'd want to have on hand.
## Seasonal / Local Notes
Any emphasis on terroir, local sourcing, or seasonal rotation.
## Home Cook Adaptation Notes
What a home cook can realistically replicate, and what requires restaurant equipment or skill.
## Suggested Direction for chef:plan
One or two sentences suggesting how to turn this into a meal plan.
e.g. "Use this brief with chef:plan to build a 2-course dinner inspired by Joe Beef's approach to Quebec comfort food — think game, root vegetables, rich reductions."