The chicken and kale Cesar salad wasn't fresh whatsoever and the dressing was half frozen by the time i got to the cafe (12:30-ish) I ordered a double espresso and the coffee wasn't fresh by any means and they burnt it horribly. I spent 25.00 here and i valued the meal at 8.00 at most. The staff were immensely rude and snapped their fingers at me to "get my attention" even though i was looking directly at them waiting for my coffee. The only redeeming quality was the setting. The Cloister garden was beautiful and serene. If you can, wait until you're done at the museum and go to a starbucks five minutes...
Read moreWe are French and we have been living in NY for four years. Everywhere we’ve been in the 🇺🇸, we were very well welcomed as customers. The service in the United States is usually incredible but… here in the MET Cloisters’cafe we have been very very rudely treated. We bought drinks, sat at a table. It was dirty. We kindly asked if it could be cleaned. A man came a yelled at us because we could have chosen another table! But the others had a less beautiful view. We had to justify ourselves. UNBELIEVABLE. He was so rude. I still can believe it....
Read moreThis place has always been lackluster but this season it’s far worse. Seems to be under new management. Its a glorified vending machine. Everything is prepackaged with a 500% markup. It’s a cafe and they don’t have hot coffee just cans. Obviously the result of necrotic bureaucracy and a hatred of nice things. Bring The Rose Bakery in. Send this anemic hospitality group back to drop-shipping scam business model incubation chamber it...
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