Harbor View Café

Harbor View Café offers a variety of burgers, pizzas, deli sandwiches, salads, beverages and snacks. To make lunch easier and more affordable for your students, you can purchase our Student Saver Lunch Vouchers in advance. Vouchers are $6.50 and allow students their choice from each category:

Entrée: Nuggets with fries, burger, sandwich, pizza
Drink: Soda, milk, chocolate milk
Side: Cookie, brownie, chips

Boxed lunches

Boxed lunches are $8.50 each and available for whale watch only. Choose from:

Oven roasted turkey and Swiss on sourdough bread
Chicken Caesar salad wrap
Roasted vegetable and hummus wrap
Albacore tuna salad on multi-grain bread
Peanut butter and jelly on white bread

Each boxed lunch also includes fresh fruit salad, potato chips, fresh baked cookie, and soda or bottled water.

When scheduling a whale watch, please place your order for boxed lunches by calling 617-973-5206 or by filling out a boxed lunch order form (pdf, 170kb). Advance notice of 72 hours is required.

Some of our food options may contain nuts; please note any food allergies when placing your food voucher order.

Bringing and Storing Bag Lunches

Prior to your arrival, please put group lunches together in cardboard box or plastic bag and label them with your school name. In warmer weather, lunch storage space is located on the Back Terrace of the Aquarium when available. In cooler weather, lunch storage space is located in the Stroller Room. These
locations could change, please confirm the location at Group Check-In.

Upon arrival, the head chaperone will be directed to the lunch storage space. When your entire group is ready to eat, please go to the designated lunch storage space to retrieve the lunches. Please try to eat together as a group.

In warmer weather, the Back Terrace, Boston Harbor walk, Christopher Columbus Park and the Aquarium plaza are perfect places for your group to eat. The Back Terrace may have tables and chairs available;.please confirm availability at Group Check In. Christopher Columbus Park is a five-minute walk from the Aquarium by the Marriott Long Wharf.

Lunch at Nearby Restaurants

Quincy Market/Faneuil Hall

Quincy Market/Faneuil Hall is just a five-minute walk away and has a food voucher program for groups. You can also contact the Faneuil Hall Marketing Department at 617-523-1300 x 7021 for information.