Restaurants & Cafés
Whether you need a quick snack en route to the ballfield or want to experience fine dining in a scenic setting, we have a spot for you. Food is the fuel nature invented and mankind's perfected, so what better spot to enjoy a bite than in an urban park, another harmonious blend of the natural and manmade?
Bronx
Brooklyn
Golden King/Falafel Snack Bar
Location: 595 Bedford Avenue at the corner of Bedford Avenue and Williamsburg StreetPhone: (718) 384-6577
Manhattan
Ballfields Café
Location: Central ParkHeckscher Ballfields, south of 65th Street & west of the carousel
Comfort Snack Bar
Location: Central Park830 5th Avenue (basement of Arsenal building)
Phone: (212) 741-1010
New Leaf Café
Location: Fort Tryon ParkOne Margaret Corbin Drive, West 190th Street
Phone: (212) 568-5323
New York Milkshake Company
Location: 342 East 47th Street (between 1st and 2nd avenues), across from the United NationsPhone: (917) 880-2393
Pier I Café
Location: Riverside ParkPier I at West 70th Street and Hudson River
Phone: (212) 362-4450
Shake Shack
Location: Madison Square ParkSoutheast corner of Madison Square Park-near Madison Avenue and East 23rd Street
Phone: (212) 889-6600
Sheep Meadow Café
Location: Central ParkCentral Park between 69th and 70th/ Terrace Drive and Sheep Meadow
Phone: (212) 396-4100
West 79th Street Boat Basin Café
Location: Riverside ParkWest 79th Street & the Hudson River
Phone: (212) 496-5542
Queens
Café on the Green
Location: Cross Island Parkway201-10 Cross Island Parkway (between the Clearview Expressway and 202nd Street)
Phone: (718) 423-7272
Rockaway Beach Snackbar
Location: Rockaway BoardwalkThree snack bars-- Beach 86th Street, Beach 97th Street, Beach 106th Street
World's Fair Marina Restaurant and Banquet
Location: Flushing Meadows Corona Park1 Worlds Fair Marina
Phone: (718) 898-1200
Staten Island
The Vanderbilt at South Beach
Location: Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach300 Father Capodanno Boulevard
Phone: (718) 447-0800
Related Links
Watch an It’s My Park segment about the Red Hook food vendors in Brooklyn.
Watch an It’s My Park segment about picnicking in Washington Square Park.
Concessions