Went to MFA today (August 14, 2021) with my adult grandson to view Monet then for lunch at the MFA New American Cafe. An excellent experience. Great service, delicious food and the dessert brownie with ice cream was the best I have ever had! It is pricey but worth it. Had green garden salad, broccoli, chicken wrap, chicken quesadilla. I would go back just to have the wonderful dessert again! We loved all the food.

Great place to grab a bite in this atrium restaurant while visiting the museum. The menu choices are very good, and the food is prepared to order with fresh ingredients. The service is also very good, and I enjoyed dining in the center of the hall people watching.

Pandemic used as an excuse to fleece customers and provide poor prepackaged food, currently the only place to buy “food” in the museum.

Arts. Coffee. Food. Need I say more? Its a great date spot if your partner is into arts.

We only had dessert, the crepe of Strawberry crepe was not freshly made, it was cold and tasteless and the strawberries was probably taken straight out of their Egyptian collections.Espresso was obviously confused with black coffee, not recommended for coffee or dessert.

The museum is an impressive work of art itself.

They go above and beyond on service and hospitality! The food is always welcoming and friendly! The food is always fresh and good! The place is always clean! I come at least once a week to this location! I recommend it! A++++

Small menu with excellent food for everyone.

The restaurant located in MFA is crowded, but the food is tasty. As youd expect, its a tad pricey.Go with the muscles and the fresh preparations. Often, specials are a good way to go as well.They have wheel chair accessible options, but its worth giving the host a heads up as soon as possible.Theyve plenty of options for all diets and the staff, though often harried, will do their best to take dietary needs into account.

This is a beautiful restaurant in a beautiful open-air space. The problem is that the restaurant isnt actually that good. The menu is limited, but I had sweet potato soup (amazing!) and a hamburger (tasteless!). But while the food quality isnt perfect, the service was downright bad. We were ignored for much of the meal, food took forever to arrive, and when it came time to order dessert, the waitress took so long to actually come see us that we had to leave since there just wasnt enough time left to eat it. As museum cafes go, this isnt bad... but it strives to be more and comes so close. I hope they improve in the future.

This is the best place to eat lunch in the area. I frequently take guests to the MFA just for lunch because I work in the area. Based on 6-10 lunches, I can honestly say the food is very good and the service is very good. The restaurant is in a very large room or cavernous hall, so the it does not have any intimacy. But it is fairly quiet and good for conversation. I believe their is a member discount, so going here just for lunch might make sense for members, but paying full price and an admission ticket probably rules it out as a dining destination for non-members.

It is a nice convenience to be able take a lunch break in the middle of your museum tour. New American Cafe provides it. As you can expect from an inside of the MFA cafe, the food is beautifully presented. Unfortunately, it is pretty expensive and of average quality. An $18 dollar burger I had could have greatly benefited (both tastewise and visually) from a much fresher green leaf lettuce. So you are pretty much paying a premium for convenience.

The lamb meatballs had great presentation but they were dry and not as flavorful as I would have liked. Overall not very good value for the price

Great service. Good food. A little pricy, but I get it. Have eaten here a couple times and is probably my the best option at MFA as far as taste.

Went here at the MFA because Bravo is closed for renovations. Was very pleasantly surprised at the wonderful food. Not inexpensive but to me? Worth it. (Try the goat cheese tart).

Had a really really really good quesadilla! I’m not sure what it was - the flavor/the components but it really was exactly what I wanted. It was cooked perfectly and the sauce was delicious! My mum also really enjoyed the Vegetable tart. The portions were not huge but they were a good size for a small lunch. The waiter was really kind, attentive, and spoke Portuguese and Spanish !

Love this place. We visit the MFA often and always stop for a meal or snack. Beautiful, varied menu with healthy and tasty food. Great service.

Im a huge fan of the cafe. I find their food is very excellent, and the atmosphere cannot be beat. I particularly love the quesadilla.

Terrible pricing for the quality of the food. So overpriced. The chabata bread was really soggy on my sandwich. The only good part was the service.

The French Pastels exhibit was wonderful and a nice size. The Ansel Adams photography exhibit was wonderful too, but for me, it was overwhelmingly large. I wish the museum entrance in the New Wing was still open for those who park in the parking lot or parking garage, partucularly in rainy or cold weather. DJM

Hit or miss with the food, never great, sometimes unacceptable. Setting is first class. Staff seems to try to be friendly, but generally unintentionally surly.

Great place to have a tasty bite, take a break and enjoy the setting while visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Nice wide open casual setting in the atrium of the New Americas wing. The food is great, service is fast, and there a gaudy Dale Chihuly sculpture towering over the space. It really is quite an ugly yellow glass sculpture, but the food is great!

It was crowded, but we were fortunate enough to get a table quickly. I had a hamburger and fries, which were gigantico. The waiter was fast as fast could be, though I think the grill, being busy, held him back a bit.Eating was fine, but leaving was miserable. We couldn’t find the exit. It was like one of those movies where everything is a bad dream. We asked a guard, whose duty was not to give directions, but to guard. We went back and forth over the same terrain numerous times before someone was kind enough to direct us out of this maze.

We had the pulled chicken sandwich with chips. It was ok, chips tasted burnt but ok.We then ordered a cappuccino....it is without a doubt the worst cappuccino/coffee I have ever had. Seriously, it didnt taste like coffee, more like dirty water with froth on top...yuck!...and dont put cinnamon on a cappuccino....seriously avoid the coffee.

Based on the other reviews Ive seen, Id wager we were pretty lucky. Our waiter was both polite and helpful, and the tasting selection was delicious beginning to end.

Great taste , good environment. pleasant environment with fast services and amazing drinks.

Embarrassing! Food is bad. Dessert is bad and coffee is bad.The museum restaurants at mfa is turning into a fast food experience much like the bad food that is served at ski resorts throughout New England.

Varied menu, fine wine menu, friendly wait staff! Great site to practice your Spanish!!

Dreadful food! With ticket prices at $25, how hard can it be for the MFA to have a decent eatery? It seems that the administration just doesnt care...

Great quality food in one of the most pleasant spaces in Boston.

Outstanding food, beautiful atmosphere inside the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and wonderful service!

Since the food is super expensive for size and quality, I wasnt happy to leave 15% tip, but the guy was rude enough to circle the caculated suggested gratuity on receipt and ask for it. I said it is tip it means I may want to leave maybe not. I am expecting more ethical training for waiters to treat the costumers with respect and dignity.

Nice surroundings but both pastries and coffees(I had a late) were not up to par. Furthermore it was quite overpriced. Overall not a great experience.

I had a horrible time. They took forever to wear us and were jerks the whole time. The food was decent at best. Overall a horrible experience.

Turkey sandwich tasted good, but they forgot the pickled onions. Was expensive for what was served, but I guess considering it is Boston and at a museum, it wasnt too bad.

I dont know how this gets the current 3.3 rating. The food is great and the service is great. I hope they dont change or get flustered by the phony, lower than they desrve, rating. Right on the edge of the dining area is a glass blown sculpture by Dale Chihuli thats 40 feet tall. At nite its lit. Striking atmosphere.

I love eating in this Cafe but I cannot think of a place that has worst food than this one. Theyre always trying to serve brussel sprouts or some other awful food item. Also today the staff is speaking Spanish amongst themselves after I showed that the crostinis were unedible. I banged one of their crostinis against the table 6 or 7 times and couldnt even break it, and then the Spanish wait staff repeatedly were condescending to me after this demonstration of showing how their food was inedible. This is a restaurant that doesnt mind if you break your teeth trying to eat. So between the bad service, people who dont speak English, serving food that they dont care if you can eat it or not, and food items that are not particularly popular, this restaurant has become one of the worst I could imagine visiting. I asked to speak to a manager and theyre saying theres no manager on property either. Its too bad because I love eating in the cafe of museums but this one is just ridiculously unenjoyable.

The people are very dutiful. Thanks

Best museum restaurant I have ever been to. Been several times.

Meh....overpriced. I got the quesadilla and I wouldnt recommend it. My friends got chicken salad sandwich. Looked better.The bathrooms downstairs, the family room was so filthy my shoes stuck to the floor because of urine. Pretty disgusting. The baby seat for the toilet set was so filthy, Id never let a baby touch that.

Best place to eat in (or near) the MFA.

Lovely lunch, somewhat erratic though friendly service, mediocre espresso.. delicious vegetable tart

Affordable prices and a great food options

Misunderstanding with seating led to the host/manager rudely yelling at us to move from our table because it wasnt ready yet. It was extremely humiliating and ruined our entire meal. Food was okay though overpriced, server was friendly enough. Just a terrible manager/host.

Airport food. Horrible overpriced one soggy sandwich bread Harrahs in the salad and I didnt even take it off the bill.

Expensive but nice and the location is amazing.

One of the worst hosts/head waiters Ive come across. Unapologetically rude to us. Food ok but small-ish portions.

Smoked trout salad is salty and bitter. Service is kind of ...weird.

Decent light fare inside the MFA. A bit pricey.

Trendy, good food, nice wine list.

Open space, clean and simple decor.

Expensive but very good food..service was ok

Overpriced small portions, bad quality, and funny what a coincidence it was the only Cafe open today 🤨🤔

Just an ok museum restaurant, stuck right out on the main floor, but hey if you want a drink and a bite in the museum this is the most formal sit down experience on offer

Food is awful. Staffs are jerks.

Great burger and sandwich

Food was ok. Not great. Over priced.

Cheap drinks okay prices

Expensive with little portions, cant recommend avoiding enough

Lovely place

On par for a museum cafe, nothing spectacular.

Expensive but OK

Worst waitress in the world

Macarooooooons!

We waited for half an hour and nobody came to take our order. Since there are many other good places here, we did not want to wait any longer and go hungry fast on the search. Staff should behave according to the prices in the restaurant and be more attentive. If it were a cafeteria, I would not have said anything!Oh well, everyone has their own opinion and gathers their own experience, I hope you will have it better!LG

To save time, this is the place to eat. I will even recommend the Black Angus Burger which is worth the detour.

Very good