Café G
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way Café, Boston
(617) 566-1088
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The polenta with mushrooms sauce is amazing. Still thinking about it months later.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Good value food! Makes a change from most galleries and museums!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food , fantastic atmosphere
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ate here in-between my visit as I arrived to the museum hungry. 😂 It was definitely busy, but there was a table for one available and I got seated right away. The service was alright...not very attentive, but it was quite busy and tables were rotating fast with new customers. I ordered the Pan-Seared Cod Cake as my waitress informed me it was a favorite of hers. My food came out quick and the cod cake tasted great! I was happy with the recommendation. For my drink I tried their Peaflower tea but asked to have some lemonade mixed in! ☺️
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 3
I ordered the shrimp salad and was pleasantly surprised. I expected small, low-quality shrimp, but instead got several large, fresh, and high-quality shrimp — much better than I imagined. Of course, the price is on the higher side, but since it’s inside a museum café, that’s expected. At least the quality matches the price, and overall the experience was very good.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
We received our food before our drinks, we were never given the share plates that we asked for and there were multiple bones in my chicken salad. I brought these issues up to the server and nothing was done to make our experience better.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 1
I ordered Chicken Salad Tartine. It was absolutely tasteless. It was not even bad. It just didn't had any taste. And the price of this tasteless dish was $22. Additionally, the serving size was unbelievably small, especially for the US standards. Chocolate Budino was okay, but nothing special. It's really sad that this kind of cafe is located in the building of this great museum.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Good food. You can't beat the surroundings.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food was pretty good, well-cooked, the presentation of the drinks and food was nice, however the service definitely ruined the experience.
We weren’t offered any water (which I understand may not be given without the request), we couldn’t order our drinks first because the server refused to take drink orders separately from the food orders. And lastly, upon paying, our server immediately pressed 20% tips, which as it is I would have payed but it felt disrespectful. The waitress was rushing conversations and being impatient, even though it was not that busy.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 1
Food was good and served quickly. Wait staff was all very kind and professional. It felt a little crammed in because it was around lunch time but other than that we found everything delightful.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
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Burrata with seasonal salad was delicious. Special Pear Tarte Tatin was very good.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Service was pleasant.
Atmosphere is wonderfully light and bright.
Coffee was fine.
Food was good, but with a small menu and limited choices, especially if you are vegan.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
The coffee was flavorless and so was the cod cake...
Quality appetizers and excellent entrees. Chef really knows how to cook seafood.
Awful. 22$ for a chicken salad sandwich on buns that weren’t even toasted, paired alongside a bland salad with no dressing and chips that are probably pre-packaged. Partners dish also had a hair.
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