The restaurant's defining feature is its view.
Photographer: Daniel Dorsa/BloombergFood
Now Anyone Can Eat at the Hidden Restaurant in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The public can now make reservations at the museum's former private dining room, which overlooks Central Park.
For years, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s members’ Dining Room was the hardest thing to find in a vast building full of hallways and quiet chambers. That was both the point and the problem. “We had this beautiful space that offers delicious food,” said Clyde Jones, the museum’s senior vice president for institutional advancement. “And we weren’t packed.”
For some, this was one of the dining room’s main draws. Another was that for price of a museum membership, anyone (and his or her guests) could have access to a pin-drop quiet restaurant on the Upper East Side whose wall of glass—overlooking Central Park and Cleopatra’s Needle—offered one of the best views in all of culinary New York.