Yellow Magnolia Café, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's resident eatery near the Lily Pool Terrace, has officially re-opened.
Now helmed by executive chef Christina Sanchez-Towers, the menu focuses on all sorts of fresh, locally sourced vegetables—which really function as a celebration of the space that the Prospect Park eatery phisically occupies.
Housed inside an old greenhouse that was first built in 1917 and makes for a wonderfully lit home, the restaurant is named after the collection of distinctive yellow-flowered magnolias found within the garden. Clearly, everything here is an ode to nature.
Standout menu items include heirloom red dent corn polenta fries served with tomato chutney, a grass-fed beef cheeseburger, a biscuit box with salted molasses butter and fruit preservers and an ancient grain bowl featuring spelt berries, wild rice, quinoat, spicy greens, avocado and marinated egg.
New Yorkers ready to usher in warmer weather will surely delight in a walk around the gardens followed by a delicious meal at the newly re-opened restaurant.