The Metropolitan Museum of Art
0.4 mi · 5 min walk
Walk south down 5th Avenue, turn east on 74th.
Museum Mile · Upper East Side
Italian dining, four blocks from The Met.
After a morning with Vermeer and Velázquez, walk five minutes south to a candlelit table on Madison Avenue.
Caravaggio Ristorante is one of the closest fine-dining Italian restaurants to The Metropolitan Museum of Art — a quiet, Gio Ponti–designed dining room serving Northern Italian classics by Chef Giuseppe Bruno. Lunch and dinner daily, seven days a week, with outdoor seating in season under our signature red-and-white awning.
From The Met's Main Entrance
5 minutes
0.4 miles south on Fifth Avenue · turn east on 74th Street · mid-block between Madison and Fifth
Open in Google MapsA Pause Between Galleries
Museum days are long. Caravaggio is the kind of place where you can put your feet up over carpaccio and a glass of Barolo, without the rush of a tourist trap. The Gio Ponti–inspired interior is itself a piece of Italian design history — fitting, after an afternoon of looking at it on the walls.
Northern Italian Cooking
Chef Giuseppe Bruno brings three decades of New York cooking and the wisdom of his Salerno ancestors. Hand-cut pasta, Mediterranean fish, dry-aged beef, and a wine list curated by Giuseppe himself — Italy from the Alps to the Amalfi Coast.
Lunch After The Met
Lunch is served daily from 12:00 to 2:30 PM. Reservations are recommended, especially on weekends and during major exhibitions.
Outdoor Terrace
In season, our sidewalk terrace on Madison Avenue offers al fresco dining under a red-and-white awning — one of the neighborhood's quietest stretches. See the terrace →
Walkable From Our Door
Museum Mile & Beyond
Central Park
1 block west
Cross 5th Avenue to enter at the 76th Street gate.
The Frick Collection
0.3 mi · 4 min walk
South on Madison to 70th Street.
Neue Galerie
0.6 mi · 8 min walk
North on 5th Avenue to 86th Street.
Guggenheim Museum
0.8 mi · 12 min walk
North on 5th Avenue to 89th Street.
Madison Avenue Galleries
Steps away
Caravaggio sits directly on Madison's gallery row.
Book your table before The Met.
23 East 74th Street · Between Madison & Fifth Avenue · Upper East Side