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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>
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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