A Taste of History

A visit to Greenfield Village invites you into farms, kitchens and dining rooms that hosted family meals and extraordinary feasts of the past. Now you can enjoy those flavors at A Taste of History restaurant. Seasonal and historically minded recipes are as fresh and delightful now as they were years ago. Stop in daily to see what we're cooking up at each of our themed stations.

Peruse the George Washington Carver station for soups and salads inspired by the agricultural work of the famed scientist. Sarah Jordan's station features pies that were favorites of her boarding-house guests from Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory. The Burbank Potato station celebrates botanist Luther Burbank's glorious spuds with a baked potato bar par excellence (toppings such as pulled pork with Greenfield Village smoked tomato barbecue sauce or chili with Michigan cheddar). Mrs. Fisher's station serves up adapted Creole recipes from the historic What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking cookbook. And finally, the From the Archives station gives us the chance to share special menus and recipes discovered in the archives of the Benson Ford Research Center.

The rotating, seasonal and locally inspired menus allow us to do what we love best — bring you into our stories in the most surprising, profound and delicious ways.

Hours of Operation:

9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Lunch served 11 a.m.-3 p.m.