Experience the Best & Only Dining at Mount RushmoreDine with the presidents! Enjoy a delicious array of food choices for breakfast, lunch or dinner at our newly remodeled dining area: Carvers’ Marketplace. Cozy up to the fireplace, constructed with rock blasted right off the face of Mt. Rushmore while savoring a hand poured latte or cappuccino brewed at Rushmore Roasters. Sit a spell during a beautiful South Dakota blue sky day on Grandview Terrace and enjoy a Dakota Bison Burger grilled from locally sourced bison charbroiled at Memorial Grill.Looking for something heartier? Try the New England Pot Roast or Lemon Pepper Chicken from Dakota Kitchen. Or go to Black Hills Harvest where you can enjoy a healthy, but filling Wojapi Wrap or Chef Salad.Save room for dessert! Try our home-made fudge, or an ice cream cone made with Thomas Jefferson’s original vanilla recipe from 1780; both available at Memorial Team Ice Cream.The dress is always casual, the setting always relaxed, and the view is, well, monumental.Carvers’ Café is a 4-Star Certified Green Restaurant! Carvers Cafe is the only 4-Star Certified Green Restaurant® in South Dakota. The Green Restaurant Association has a total of 4 Certified Green Restaurant’s® in South Dakota.Carver’s Cafe is the third 4-Star Certified Green Restaurant® in the national park system. Xanterra’s Mammoth Dining Room in Yellowstone was the first in a National Park last year.Carvers’ Cafe is now one of only 32 4-Star Certified Green Restaurant® in the U.S and Canada.Carvers’ Cafe implemented 73 Environmental Steps to achieve 354.79 points out of the required 300 points to achieve 4-stars.Carvers’ Café originally achieve 3-Star Certified Green Restaurant® status in 2013.
