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    Moongate Cafe

    4.0 (12 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
    Updated 1 month ago

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    Tea service
    Lia M.

    Beautiful new cafe at the Asian Art Museum. It's open and airy, with lots of seating. I loved the tea service and the goi cuon. My genmaicja was perfect. If you order a tea (not tea service), you are given tea in a bag with hot water disposable cup, which was disappointing. Ceilings are tall so it's a little loud; wish the music was a bit louder. Children are allowed to run freely, so it's a good for them. I look forward to returning.

    Jai Y.

    I got a salmon rice bowl and chocolate chip cookie. My wife got a Tokyo hotdog. She said the food is alright. I enjoyed that it tasted pretty good but it is overpriced for what it is. But that's a given because it's inside a museum. The hotdog is alone over $10.

    Bahn Mi
    Kim T.

    Never have I been greeted at the ordering area by the chef Rise Namiki. Gave great recommendations for the Rishi Tea Service and I ordered a Bahn Mi. Delicious! I loved my trip to Japan and wanted to capture some of the feelings and atmosphere of that trip here at the National Museum of Asian Art and the Moongate cafe. The bread is perfectly crunchy on the outside and tender on the inside. The tea is perfect!

    Lauren F.

    The cafe is in a beautiful space with a lot of comfortable seating. I enjoyed the tea service and would recommend that and the lounge area itself. The food was quite bad and not as advertised. The "5-spice breaded chicken" on the banh mi was neither spiced nor breaded: it was sad boiled chicken with an awful sauce that killed the veggies. The bread was wrong for a banh mi as well, and it was overpriced to boot. Some of the worst food I've had recently, and the cookie was on the sad and dry side as well. Sthck to tea service with lovely crunchy rice crackers and enjoy the beautiful space!

    Ahi Bow  Tokyo Hotdog
    Maria Gracias H.

    Tucked inside the Asian Art Museum, this small, Instagrammable café serves a variety of Asian-fusion dishes. Like most museum cafés, the prices are a bit high and the food is just okay--but I have to admit, they were quite generous with the amount of ahi in the bowl. Lovely seating, cute "floor style" sofa and a mahjong table.

    blue moon matcha latte
    Lexi H.

    decided since I was at an Asian focused museum, how could I not try their café's matcha latte being a tea beverage with Japanese origin! I'm so glad I ran up to the café before they closed just to try it, their blue moon matcha latte was delicious! perfectly creamy with a nice blend of matcha & butterfly pea powder. I love that these museums are all free because I will totally come back to order a matcha again & then take it outside to enjoy in the gardens on a nice afternoon!

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    They got the order wrong and served my wife food she is allergic to. I would highly avoid this place

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