Mina Stone, a chef who has often cooked for artists, draws on her Greek and Georgian roots for the menu at the newly redone cafe. Greek meze, market greens, yellow lentil soup and a few breakfast items are on the menu. Open from noon to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays (no museum admission). 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens; 718-440-4616, minas.nyc.
Morgan Library & Museum
Morgan Dining Room and Morgan Café
Tom Colicchio, the celebrity chef, is now in charge of J.P. Morgan’s former dining room, serving lunchtime hamachi crudo, seared quail, ricotta gnocchi, and, for brunch, a lobster omelet. The spacious cafe adjacent to it has easygoing fare like onion dip, steamed mussels and a burger. Beer, wine and cocktails are served. Open noon to 2:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays for the Dining Room, from 11 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays. The cafe serves from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily except Mondays and until 8 p.m. Fridays (reservations for the Dining Room, no admission). 225 Madison Avenue, Manhattan; 212-683-2130, themorgan.org.
Neue Galerie
Café Sabarsky
Homage to Austrian and German art carries over to this elegant wood-paneled dining room where the chef, Kurt Gutenbrunner, channels Vienna with goulash, Wiener schnitzel and spaetzle. Clouds of schlag dress coffee and chocolate drinks and more than a dozen desserts, as dazzling as Klimts, beckon from a display. Open daily, except Tuesdays, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., closes at 6 p.m. Monday and Wednesday (reservations, no museum admission). 1048 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; 212-628-6200, neuegalerie.org.
New-York Historical Society
Storico
An Italian-accented menu of salads, sandwiches, pasta and dishes like a frittata and burgers with and without meat at lunchtime is bolstered at dinner with roast chicken and steak. There’s a full bar. Across the entryway from the high-ceilinged white room is Parliament Espresso and Coffee with all sorts of alluring pastries. Open for lunch, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and dinner, from 5 to 10 p.m., Tuesdays through Fridays, dinner starts at 5:30 on Saturday; brunch from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays (reservations, no admission). 170 Central Park West, Manhattan; 646-293-9912, storicorestaurant.com.
