Dancing Crane Cafe — Restaurant in New York

I used this place as the meeting point for my son as he went off on his own to visit the zoo here. I sat outside and supped a Cafe Latte whilst working out what to do for the rest of the morning. Using the cafe's free WiFi was helpful in that respect. I then left for a stroll through Central Park before returing a couple of hours later. By then I needed the restrooms so joined the short, orderly queue. They say that the restrooms are only for customers only but, of course, I had been one a few hours earlier. As it was no one arrested me and I felt more comfortable to continue our walking tour of the Big Apple. Neither my son nor I felt that this looked a particularly appealing place to have lunch and, anyway, their prices were...

Confession: I am local and I eat here twice a month with my dog. Sometimes you just want to sit at the zoo with your dog to share chicken fingers and French fries. Dancing Crane Café is the place for that!

I don't understand the bad reviews. What else did they expect from a zoo concession stand? The food is salty and delicious. The soda and beer are cold. The cashier line is fast. The seating area is clean. That's literally an A+ everything for a concession stand. They even have a bathroom inside, despite the signs that say otherwise.

It's just outside the fence of the Central Park Zoo, but I like to tell people I'm at the zoo having lunch...

This place is not family friendly place

We went to this place just to avoid heavy rain earlier today. We didn’t have a choice to avoid super heavy rain with my 15 month old in a stroller. The nasty female manager at this cafe told the security guy to get rid of all the people whose not buying their food, because the place was too full and many people are not buying their disgusting and overpriced food. So the security came to me to go out even I asked him I’m with my 15month just for another 5-10min to wait until rain gets better. He said NO, it’s not his decision, it’s the manager’s order. Not even worth a star. Such a shame. 100000000000%...