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Visitors are pleasantly surprised by the variety of cuisine that satisfies a wide array of cravings. Be sure to seek out these culinary treasures of the Black Hills and Badlands. LOCAL FLAVOR Local cooking features inventive dishes that showcase the region’s native bounty, utilizing buffalo, elk and pheasant and providing unique flavors. Most restaurants serve the region’s most delicious fish, walleye, as thick, boneless fillets, and rainbow trout with butter and a squeeze of lemon. CHUCKWAGONS If your focus is on the Old West experience, take in one of the area’s chuckwagon supper and shows. The fare is authentically cowboy, and the music and humor are decidedly Western. The chuckwagon suppers at High Plains Western Heritage Center, Circle B and Fort Hays are the modern-day supper outfits. The Blue Bell Chuckwagon Cookout in Custer State Park includes a hayride sing-along and storytelling experience on the way to an outdoor chuckwagon supper. ETHNIC FOOD Cultural traditions represented by area restaurants include Chinese, Mexican, Korean, German, Italian, French, Lakota, Thai, Indian, Japanese, Vietnamese and more. Chefs trained in the world’s great classic food traditions — from French to Sichuan to the American South — are creating culinary masterpieces in Black Hills and Badlands bistros and eateries. Be sure to try the area’s uniquely delicious blend of cultural traditions. A local favorite, the Indian Taco, is a Mexican-based taco salad built with buffalo meat on top of Indian fry bread, a sweetened dough created by the Lakota Sioux. CASUAL DINING Ask any local where to find the best burger or pizza in the area, and you’re sure to receive a passionate response. Nearly every community boasts of their own specialty comfort food — from fried pickles to pheasant poppers, chislic to mashed potato pizza, and meat pocket pasties to buffalo chili. Home-style cooking is our way of life. SWEET TREATS There’s no shortage of the sweet stuff in the region. Whether you have a taste for kuchen — our state’s official dessert — or prefer ice cream, doughnuts, truffles, cake or pie, we’ve got it all. To learn more about dining in the Black Hills and Badlands, visit blackhillsbadlands.com/food-drink.
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