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The Breuer Building's lower-level dining space has hosted numerous tenants. At its opening, the building had a cafeteria-style restaurant.<ref>{{cite news|last=Macomber|first=Mary|title=The Art of Dining Out|newspaper=Globe-Gazette|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/391174346/|date=March 31, 1967|access-date=July 26, 2023}}</ref> By the 1980s, the space was called the Garden Restaurant, the same name used for the restaurant in the museum's prior space beside the [[Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Schoenholz Bee|editor1-first=Harriet|editor2-last=Elligott|editor2-first=Michelle|title=Art in Our Time: A Chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|page=105|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Art_in_Our_Time/p_TQ5cpXW1IC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA105|date=2004|access-date=July 26, 2023}}</ref><ref>https://www.newspapers.com/image/704215387/</ref> The restaurant hired a new manager and offered an English tea service, mushroom omelets, spicy pasta, and a layered "Whitney Cake".<ref name="GardenRestaurant">{{cite news|last=Sax|first=Irene|title=Eating Where The Art Is|newspaper=New York Newsday|page=14|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/704215387/|date=April 2, 1986|access-date=July 26, 2023}}</ref>
 
AroundIn the 1990s, the Whitney was among numerous Manhattan museums to elevate their restaurants; the Whitney contracted Sarabeth's, a New York City brunch chain of cafes with a nostalgic homeyness, noted as contrasting with the modern stark museum building. The Whitney chose Sarabeth's for its offerings of American food, matching the museum's American theme, and for the chain's already substantial following. It opened in mid-July of 1991.<ref name="Sarabeth's">{{cite news|last=Bianco|first=Marie|title=New at the Whitney: American Cuisine|newspaper=Newsday|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/706361007/|date=September 13, 1991|access-date=July 26, 2023}}</ref> The space in the museum building had wooden tables and comfortable blond wood armchairs with lively fabric upholstry situated on slate floors with stone-and-granite walls. The 80-seat dining room's west wall was entirely glass, looking out onto the museum's outdoor sculpture garden, where brunch was served on weekends. It was at times adorned with a self-portrait by [[Alfred Leslie]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Asimov|first=Eric|title=Sating the Eyes And Satisfying The Appetite|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/13/arts/sating-the-eyes-and-satisfying-the-appetite.html|date=November 13, 1992|access-date=July 26, 2023}}</ref><ref name="GardenRestaurant"/> or with Andy Warhol's ''Flowers 1970''.<ref name="Sarabeth's"/>
 
For approximately 20 years, Sarabeth's operated its cafe there, serving breakfast and lunch.<ref name="Untitled"/> Its American-themed menu included cream of tomato soup, [[Caesar salad]], and strawberry shortcake.<ref name="Sarabeth's"/> Sarabeth's was known for its home-style desserts which were compared to works of art; in 2001 owner Sarabeth Levine chose to replicate works shown in a [[Wayne Thiebaud]] exhibit for her daily dessert specials.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fabricant|first=Florence|author-link=Florence Fabricant|title=Food Stuff; At the Whitney, Cake Imitates Art|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/01/dining/food-stuff-at-the-whitney-cake-imitates-art.html|date=August 1, 2001|access-date=July 2, 2023}}</ref> As well, for a time, Thiebaud's painting ''Pie Counter'', depicting rows of American-style pies and cakes, hung at the entrance to the restaurant.<ref name="Sarabeth's"/>
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