Barrio Chic

When I walked past El Museo del Barrio, I was wowed by the formerly gritty museum’s new bold yellow Plexiglass façade and, once inside, by the bright, airy modern café, with its huge arched windows overlooking the Central Park Conservatory garden. Part of El Museo’s $35 million renovation, El Café is
catered by Great Performances, the same company that brings you warming root vegetable soup at Wave Hill or artisanal cheese boards at BAM. Read more