Museum of Childhood - Benugo in Tower Hamlets

the menu posted online is different from what they sell the good thing is there is a lot of dining tables for everyone to sit down during peak hours

Co-created with children from early years to teens, the venue is intended to be the “most joyful museum in the world”, offering young people a space to imagine, play and design. It features almost 2,000 toys, characters, objects and artworks on display from around the world and across history. The museum offers three permanent galleries, Play, Imagine and Design, a temporary exhibition space, restored Grade II listed architectural features, improved retail and café spaces, new accessible routes and facilities, including a Changing Places Toilet, and an enhanced and expanded Clore Learning Centre and Creative Studios.

Lovely museum well worth visiting 🙂

Small cafe, huge seating area. Good for a quick bite while at the museum.

plenty of seats, and it's good that the kids meal contains fruits

Loved it, almost too much to see in one visit

My coffee was lukewarm and cakes overpriced.

Visit for lunch whilst at the museum. What they had was of ok quality but a very limited selection and not really to my tastes. Children's bag meal very poor value.

Really sad how its changed not as good as it used to be.

Don't arrive expecting to dine here! The food selection is appallingly sparse and what they do have is poorly made, for example the ham and emmental sandwich contained imaginary emmental (I guess to get your childhood imagination going). It's a shame because Benugo usually serve something decent. Museum is great though, this review is just for the cafe.

food really bad especially for the prices, staff uninterested and seemed not to care, the cafe i remember being here before was better, get there early before the health inspector.

Lovely musem but disgraceful cafe. Expensive, staff disorganised, very limited choice of food on a Sunday at 12 noon. If you asked for something it seemed to be a big inconvenience to them to try and help.

Very good choice of healthy salads and sandwiches. Everything seems homemade vegan options as well including the cakes. They have a children's menu that is at a very good price. We enjoyed it.

Great open seating area and decent coffee. Nice but expensive cakes. Not recommended for lunch - they don't serve any proper food. It's all weird, expensive and unsatisfying combinations. Staff also a little bit clueless if that isn't too harsh.

I did expect more varied exhibits than were on display, however, what was on show were very interesting and would recommend a visit.

Great place. Can't say the same about the dopey cafe staff though. They haven't got a clue.

This restaurant has all you need to have a quick bite while visiting the museum. They have coffee of course and lovely selection of cakes.  Selection of healthy salads and vegetarian option wraps and panini. Reasonably priced.

Been meaning to go for years and finally got around to it. The kids loved it and I learned so much.

Nice cafe. Very convenient while children are getting entertained in the museum.

Great time with the kids. Chinese festival was lovely

Wonderful space and interesting exhibitions.

A small museum but well worth a visit.

Small but cute cafe. Huge seating area and wide range of food and drinks . Their coffee is outstanding if you compare it with the coffee shops around the area. It’s great to go with children as they also cater for them. Homemade cakes and different hot wrap of the day every week. They also serve fresh salads and toasted sandwiches. One of the few places I have seen they sale baby food. Staff is very friendly and always willing to help.

A great museum, it was like looking back over my children, some lovely memories

Great for kids - a lifeline in Bethnal Green!

Very interesting and nostalgic to see the range of old toys. Very child friendly with interactive displays and toys to keep them entertained! Worth a visit 😀

The hot drinks like coffee and chai latte are good. Food is OK and there're quite a lot of options for children. No complaints about service since I didn't come here during peak time.

Reading the reviews you would think this was the worst cafe ever. Not at all. Decent food selection with even children portion option (go find that). It is not a café I would go out of my way to come but it is not a bad option if you are here at the museum and need to fuel up yourself or your little ones. May be expensive but not a kidney sold at the black market amount. What do you expect? Its a cafe in the museum.

Rude staff Staff seems totally uninterested in customers. Food is ok. But staff really needs to be more service oriented.

No-one enjoyed their meal. Overpriced, poor quality. Coffee was ok.

I'm not sure you'd visit this cafe just to visit the cafe, it's inside the wonderful Museum of Childhood and as such as is a loud and lively place, but within those walls, it's a haven of sorts providing much needed energy in lovely coffee and cake form! If familiar with Benugo one supposes one is fairly familiar with this cafe (and most cafes, no?), your usual parade of caffeinated drinks are available and served here with aplomb, together with some truly incredible cake offerings, better than your standard cafe fare I must confess. Still, it's the stomach of this wonderful museum and as such is very much a part of it, tables placed in the open atrium of this vast space, the sounds of happy (and often not so happy) children reverberating around the place will accompany your Latte. A joyous mix really.