What to expect: Convenient pick-me-ups including bánh mì sandwiches, sushi, light snacks, and beverages.
Food and Drink
All Members and Patrons receive a 10% discount in all public restaurants at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters.
Look for exhibition-inspired menu offerings the next time you visit The Eatery and The Met Dining Room.
Please note: Museum admission is required to enter.
The Met Fifth Avenue
What to expect: Casual, family-friendly dining that offers delicious options for visitors of every taste, including pizza, sandwiches, salads, soups, desserts, espresso, and other beverages.
Hours
Monday–Tuesday and Thursday–Sunday: 11 am–4 pm
Closed Wednesday
Location: The Robert Lehman Collection Galleries, Ground Floor. View on map
The American Wing Cafe
What to expect: This soaring pavilion with views of American masterworks is a great spot to enjoy coffee, wine, beer, or another beverage with a snack.
Hours
Sunday–Tuesday and Thursday: 11 am–4 pm
Friday and Saturday: 11 am–8 pm
Closed Wednesday
The best restaurants near South Bank and Waterloo
5 out of 5 stars
price 3 of 4
Forza Wine describes its food as ‘Italian-ish’ and they’re spot on. Taking over the top floor of this iconic South Bank buillding, the Peckham-based restaurant’s second spot offers a bounty of fresh, and field-grown flavours spanning bitter leaves, lightly dashed with a muscular anchovy dressing, to lamb shoulder with salsa verde, pumpkin with pearl barley and burrata with beetroot. We ordered buttery broccoli dotted with salty pops of brown shrimp; a hearty pork ragu on a still-crunchy wedge of fried bread, dressed up with some gargantuan slices of chilli and pickled fennel; and a sublime, straightforward dish of clams, with rounds of courgettes, chickpeas and sherry. Nothing is overly fancy, nothing is overly cheffy, but it’s all spotless.
Leonie Cooper Food and Drink Editor
Gunpowder
- Restaurants
- Indian
- Tower Bridge
price 2 of 4
A flashy Tower Bridge sequel to the small-plates Indian joint behind Spitalfields Market, this branch of Gunpowder is an equally explosive proposition for fans of Madras-style chicken lollipops, chutney cheese sarnies, Kerala beef pepper fry and Old Monk rum pudding. It may look slicker than its pokey home-style sibling, but this place is affordable, fun, delicious and mouth-wateringly addictive.
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Anchor & Hope
- Bars and pubs
- Gastropubs
- Southwark
price 2 of 4
Handy for both the Young and Old Vic Theatres, it consists of a straightforward pub divided by a heavy central curtain from a dining room. Unlike some gussied-up gastros, the dining area retains the atmosphere of a pub, in a low-lit, art-festooned room, and the food is terrific. textured venison kofte served on perkily dressed little gem lettuce, for example, or rabbit served savagely red with salty jus, fat chips and a big pot of béarnaise sauce.
