New York City (Brooklyn): Museum of Food and Drink (January 2020)



My spouse and I visited the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) on a Saturday afternoon in mid-January 2020. The museum is open Fridays through Sundays (closed Mondays through Thursdays) from 12:00 noon until 6:00 pm. Admission costs $14 per adult (with one food tasting) or $25 (with additional food tastings). We spent about one hour at MOFAD. The front of the space contains a gift shop, coat rack, restroom, and Smell-o-Vision station. 

MOFAD opened in October 2015 in a three-story building across from McCarren Park in Williamsburg. (Reportedly, it will relocate to the Upper East Side in April 2020.) The museum occupies the street level of the building, which has a high-ceiling open-space warehouse feel. One area of the museum includes a demonstration kitchen where chefs create dishes for the patrons seated at the counter in front of them. (We had just come from lunch nearby at the Llama Inn, so we were too full to sample any of the food.) 

When we visited, the exhibition was called CHOW and focused on Chinese food and restaurants in America. Although we knew the focus of the exhibition prior to our visit, we expected CHOW to be a rotating exhibit among a more permanent collection of other food-related items and displays, which was not the case. The CHOW exhibit was the entire museum. Although we found the subject matter interesting (particularly the restaurant menus from around the country), we previously visited the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in October 2017 (see our separate review) and some of the information was repetitive. 

Our visit to the Museum of Food and Drink was satisfactory, but we would not recommend that tourists go out of their way to visit.








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