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The Norad Cafe

5.0 (4 reviews)
Closed • 8:00 am - 2:00 pm

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Excellent sandwiches made with Boar's Head coldcuts, and fresh produce. Inside an old Mill Building with a small eating area with tables.

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Cafe Seven - Muji style x Tadao Ando

Cafe Seven

3.8(4 reviews)
3.9 mi

Below average, below ground museum café. I could blame the architects of the new unit, who stuck…read morethis downstairs in the back with a kind of soulless seating floor and a very awkward cafeteria-style system. But the food direction is also odd, with an order-with-numbers system where you have to wait for it if you're going outside to eat (which requires schlepping your food up some massive stairs and around two turns just to get to the outside area) but for which they'll deliver if you're in the dismal downstairs. It's a huge missed opportunity; the largely empty (perhaps to keep it aesthetically pleasing) spot for the bookstore/gift shop, obviously positioned on the first floor to get more traffic, is adjacent to the outside seating area and would have been a far better choice for the café. The counter service was a strange mix of hovering and inattentive. As for the food, it's a theoretically nice set of high-end salads with no hot options (the hot stuff we ordered was just tepid), but is thrown together, given ingredients and pricing. The salmon-spinach salad, for example, was just baby spinach with sort of indifferent slices of salmon (not chopped for better coverage for flavor) tucked at random inside; the caesar salad was about as plain as you could imagine, and the special "Buddha Bowl", which a tasty original, was a pretty small portion for double digit pricing. It's adequate but it's not the kind of café to make you say "oh, let's meet for lunch at the Clark!", and without good inside seating that takes advantage of the beautiful view, adjacent to that view, it's just a quick refueling stop.

The museum itself opens at 10am, while the cafe opens at 11am…read more So if you are a fan of muji style cafe and Tadao Ando Architecture, you better get there around 11am, or you will have to starve yourself. The food itself is not bad but a bit pricey, got the chicken meatball veggy soup with a heated roll, very tasty indeed. While my boyfriend got the special honey mustard ham, cheese croissant. It is overpriced but I dont mind eating under the roof of Ando.

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Cafe Seven - Honey Mustard + ham + cheese special croissant. With salad on the side.

Honey Mustard + ham + cheese special croissant. With salad on the side.

Cafe Seven - Chicken Meatball veggy soup. With heated Roll on the side.

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Chicken Meatball veggy soup. With heated Roll on the side.

Lickety-Split - Side order of Mediterranean salad

Lickety-Split

3.0(28 reviews)
1.2 mi
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Good ice cream, hit or miss food, seething hostility from the service…read more This place is convenient to Mass MoCA, tucked in by the main entrance to the museum building, just past the gift shop. Some signage would have helped, because we had trouble locating it on our first visit. The place can get backed up, especially when timed events are finishing up. Service is not slow when there are few people, but the kitchen seems to get backed up after a line forms. I had the black bean burrito, which was pretty tasty with cholula, and my daughter had a grilled cheese. The caesar salad my wife had was not so great, mostly due to the rock hard slabs of cold chicken breast. So, the food seems hit or miss. We really enjoyed the ice cream, house made with good flavors and served slightly soft. The service was deplorable, though it may have just been our experience with one server. The young lady taking our order was extremely rude and seemed very put upon having to take our simple, friendly order. She even disappeared mid-order to go stand idle somewhere else and it was unclear if she was coming back until I called out to her to which she snapped "I'm listening!" but it certainly wasn't clear that she was listening. I will always look past mediocre service and bad days - the service industry is tough - but the outright hostility is unacceptable in any social setting. Management should definitely be on top of this and take more care on who is placed in customer facing roles.

On our first ever trip to MassMOCA for Loud Weekend we took a break between sets to grab a bite to…read moreeat. Luckily we beat the rush but I can understand why other helpers commented on the wait time and ordering process. We ordered the Mediterranean salad which was fresh and served with a scoop of mashed chickpeas, I hesitate to call with Hummus because I did not taste tahini and it was rather thick and chunky. Also a generous slice of tasty bread. We also got a bowl of the Ghanaian chicken soup which was fabulous!! The setting is light and bright into industrial, next to the gift shop inside the gallery.

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Lickety-Split - Ghanaian chicken soup

Ghanaian chicken soup

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