Little Flower Cafe is popping up at this Queens museum all summer
Along with world-class artworks, innovative films and some of the finest museum exhibitions on display, New York’s best museums and galleries also offer some seriously great grub. And now one of our favorite local institutions has welcomed a killer Queens bakery to sell their sweet wares on premises all summer long.
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After popping up at Museum of the Moving Image on May 4 with its high-quality drip coffee, specialty drinks and signature soft and airy firni doughnuts (an Afghan-inspired treat made with sweet ground rice), the Astoria-based Little Flower Cafe will officially open a summertime satellite location inside the media museum. As of May 18, the coffee shop and bakery from Ali Zaman—whose family owns fellow neighborhood spot Sami’s Kabab House—will be setting up camp every weekend until October at MoMI from noon to 9pm.
As part of the museum’s Open Worlds initiative—”an accessible, 15,500-square-foot, climate-controlled, WiFi-enabled community resource for visitors of all ages looking to convene”—the museum lobby and courtyard will be open and free to the public during this period, which means that you can stop in to try coffees, herbal teas, juices and pastries from Little Flower Cafe sans paid museum admission.
Alongside those lightly spiced doughnuts (filled with a sweet cardamom and rose water custard and topped with a crumble of pistachios), the pastry rotation at the modern halal cafe regularly includes stuff like strawberry Danishes, cardamom knots, lemon olive-oil cake, turmeric buns, pistachio croissants and the like. So grab a cool drink and a yummy pastry from Little Flower, enjoy free WiFi, take in some movie trivia or simply relax in MoMI’s al fresco space all summer long.