diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8f3a411f3fb9..bd21dfd45a73 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5931,6 +5931,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "re_log_types",
  "re_protos",
  "re_smart_channel",
+ "re_types",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
diff --git a/crates/store/re_grpc_client/Cargo.toml b/crates/store/re_grpc_client/Cargo.toml
index 665e7fc6faa9..efb330fc306e 100644
--- a/crates/store/re_grpc_client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/store/re_grpc_client/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ re_log_encoding.workspace = true
 re_log_types.workspace = true
 re_protos.workspace = true
 re_smart_channel.workspace = true
+re_types.workspace = true
 
 thiserror.workspace = true
 tokio-stream.workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/store/re_grpc_client/src/lib.rs b/crates/store/re_grpc_client/src/lib.rs
index 478312bb6aaa..d6e7b3605e07 100644
--- a/crates/store/re_grpc_client/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/store/re_grpc_client/src/lib.rs
@@ -3,13 +3,19 @@
 mod address;
 
 pub use address::{InvalidRedapAddress, RedapAddress};
+use re_chunk::external::arrow2;
+use re_log_types::external::re_types_core::ComponentDescriptor;
+use re_types::components::RecordingUri;
+use re_types::Component;
 use url::Url;
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 use std::error::Error;
 
-use re_chunk::Chunk;
+use arrow2::array::Utf8Array as Arrow2Utf8Array;
+use arrow2::datatypes::Field as Arrow2Field;
+use re_chunk::{Arrow2Array, Chunk, ChunkId, TransportChunk};
 use re_log_encoding::codec::{wire::decode, CodecError};
 use re_log_types::{
     ApplicationId, LogMsg, SetStoreInfo, StoreId, StoreInfo, StoreKind, StoreSource, Time,
@@ -64,6 +70,9 @@ enum StreamError {
 
     #[error(transparent)]
     ChunkError(#[from] re_chunk::ChunkError),
+
+    #[error("Invalid URI: {0}")]
+    InvalidUri(String),
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -179,7 +188,7 @@ async fn stream_recording_async(
     let store_id = StoreId::from_string(StoreKind::Recording, recording_id.clone());
 
     let store_info = StoreInfo {
-        application_id: ApplicationId::from("rerun_data_platform"),
+        application_id: ApplicationId::from("redap_recording"),
         store_id: store_id.clone(),
         cloned_from: None,
         is_official_example: false,
@@ -221,9 +230,6 @@ async fn stream_recording_async(
     Ok(())
 }
 
-/// TODO(zehiko) - this is a copy of `stream_recording_async` with a different gRPC call,
-/// this will go away as we tackle unification of data and metadata streams REDAP #74, hence
-/// avoiding refactoring right now
 async fn stream_catalog_async(
     tx: re_smart_channel::Sender<LogMsg>,
     redap_endpoint: Url,
@@ -273,7 +279,7 @@ async fn stream_catalog_async(
     let store_id = StoreId::from_string(StoreKind::Recording, "catalog".to_owned());
 
     let store_info = StoreInfo {
-        application_id: ApplicationId::from("rerun_data_platform"),
+        application_id: ApplicationId::from("redap_catalog"),
         store_id: store_id.clone(),
         cloned_from: None,
         is_official_example: false,
@@ -295,8 +301,64 @@ async fn stream_catalog_async(
 
     re_log::info!("Starting to read...");
     while let Some(result) = resp.next().await {
-        let tc = result.map_err(TonicStatusError)?;
-        let chunk = Chunk::from_transport(&tc)?;
+        let mut tc = result.map_err(TonicStatusError)?;
+        // received TransportChunk doesn't have ChunkId, hence we need to add it before converting
+        // to Chunk
+        tc.schema.metadata.insert(
+            TransportChunk::CHUNK_METADATA_KEY_ID.to_owned(),
+            ChunkId::new().to_string(),
+        );
+
+        let mut chunk = Chunk::from_transport(&tc)?;
+
+        // enrich catalog data with RecordingUri that's based on the ReDap endpoint (that we know)
+        // and the recording id (that we have in the catalog data)
+        let host = redap_endpoint
+            .host()
+            .ok_or(StreamError::InvalidUri(format!(
+                "couldn't get host from {redap_endpoint}"
+            )))?;
+        let port = redap_endpoint
+            .port()
+            .ok_or(StreamError::InvalidUri(format!(
+                "couldn't get port from {redap_endpoint}"
+            )))?;
+
+        let recording_uri_arrays: Vec<Box<dyn Arrow2Array>> = chunk
+            .iter_component_arrays(&"id".into())
+            .map(|id| {
+                let rec_id = id
+                    .as_any()
+                    .downcast_ref::<Arrow2Utf8Array<i32>>()
+                    .ok_or(StreamError::ChunkError(re_chunk::ChunkError::Malformed {
+                        reason: format!("id must be a utf8 array: {:?}", tc.schema),
+                    }))?
+                    .value(0); // each component batch is of length 1 i.e. single 'id' value
+
+                let recording_uri = format!("rerun://{host}:{port}/recording/{rec_id}");
+
+                let recording_uri_data = Arrow2Utf8Array::<i32>::from([Some(recording_uri)]);
+
+                Ok::<Box<_>, StreamError>(
+                    Box::new(recording_uri_data) as Box<dyn arrow2::array::Array>
+                )
+            })
+            .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()?;
+
+        let recording_id_arrays = recording_uri_arrays
+            .iter()
+            .map(|e| Some(e.as_ref()))
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+        let rec_id_field = Arrow2Field::new("item", arrow2::datatypes::DataType::Utf8, true);
+        #[allow(clippy::unwrap_used)] // we know we've given the right field type
+        let uris = re_chunk::util::arrays_to_list_array(
+            rec_id_field.data_type().clone(),
+            &recording_id_arrays,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
+        chunk.add_component(ComponentDescriptor::new(RecordingUri::name()), uris)?;
 
         if tx
             .send(LogMsg::ArrowMsg(store_id.clone(), chunk.to_arrow_msg()?))