Tableau Pafa - Philadelphia

The historic building houses an amazing collection of art masterpieces. paintings and sculptures. the next door is the new building with beautiful art. I have visited several times, every time I am more in the awe of this precious stone of an art museum.

Tableau is a pretty little place with breakfast options and sandwiches and pastries. It is on the PAFA campus and the staff are friendly and helpful

Cool indie, student-centric coffee shop. Coffee and other beverages. On the hush, great spot for a hangover beer and a shot of espresso. Purchases support the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

PAFA has a wealth of knowledge and art history and culture to share with the world!! It's a great place to visit, explore and learn!!

My husband and I love PAFA for Museum visits, and generally enjoy light lunches in Museum cafes. Tableau had many interesting pastries, but several flies were traveling from item to item, so those were unappetizing. The sandwiches they had put out to display as examples had dried out so thoroughly that the bread had curled up, and flies were enjoying them, too also unappetizing. We got packaged food out of the case. My husband had a good pesto-mozzarella sandwich, which they put in the panini grill for him. I chose roasted beets in tahini but the beets turned out not to be roasted at all, but heavily pickled. I almost choked on all the vinegar, hardly effected by the tablespoon of tahini. I think this place could be decent for quick, simple food, but perhaps they need to work a bit harder at maintaining standards?