The Gardner Café serves lunch Tuesday through Sunday. During the summer months, outdoor seating in the Museum's exterior gardens is available. Under the direction of Chef Peter Crowley, the Café's menu changes regularly and offers a variety of dishes emphasizing seasonal ingredients and styles. Reservations are accepted for Members at 11:30 on weekdays and 11:00 on weekends. Museum admission is not required to dine at the Café.

Gardner Café Hours

Tuesday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.* to 4 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
(Major credit cards accepted)

* Reservations for members only. Accepted for 11:30 Tuesday-Friday and 11:00    Saturday and Sunday.

Telephone: 617-566-1088

Gardner Café wins ImproperBostonian’s “Boston’s Best” 2004 for Indulgence – Dessert in the courtyard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Gardner Café.
“ If you’re going to ingest unnecessary calories, you might as well make it a completely sensory experience and do it in a truly sybaritic setting. The courtyard café at the Gardner Museum offers delicious food in general, but the gorgeous surrounds seem especially appropriate for the decadence of dessert. The bread pudding earns audible moans of ecstasy, with flavors that change seasonally. In the past year, they’ve included pumpkin, white chocolate, blueberry and banana, each more sinfully delicious than the last. Chocoholics will plotz over the chocolate mousse torte (rich chocolate mousse on a dense chocolate base) and coffee cravers will cotton to the mocha cannolis. An additional benefit to the setting: You can walk off some of your indiscretion with a stroll through the museum’s magnificent galleries afterward.
Improper Bostonian Boston’s Best Issue July 21 2004 www.improper.com