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Mitsitam Cafe

  • November 28, 2007
  • Rated 5 of 5 by two cruisers from Ames, Iowa
Mitsitam Cafe

The Mitsitam Café is located on the first floor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. There is no admission to the museum so anyone can walk into have lunch here. I definitely recommend that if you are visiting the museum you should have lunch here. It will heighten your experience of the diverse cultures displayed there.

This café is a multi-island cafeteria. Each island has indigenous food from a different American Indian cultures. I may have missed some of the offerings but I did see South American, Mezzo- American, Northwestern American, Plains Indians and Southwestern American. There is also an island that featured desserts that have some regional connections, but not exactly from Indian cultures. It was a bit confusing at first but the three of us each ended up with a tray full of interesting food choices. One tray from the South American island had a Squash-Banana Soup and multi-bean mixture wrapped up like a meat pie, and a vanilla cream dessert. The tray form the Plains Indians had a Buffalo Burger, Fry Bread with honey, and an apple dessert. My tray was from the Central American Indian culture and had Chicken Mole wrapped in soft taco shells with salsa and a Key Lime tart (did the Seminoles invent that?). We all shared small bites and the vote came in: Pumpkin-Banana Soup was the winner with Fry Bread a close second.

A word of caution, it is expensive for a cafeteria. Lunch for three with two beverages, and three desserts, but no tip was $52.09.

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