2 Best Restaurants in The Hopi Mesas, Northeast Arizona

The restaurant at the Hopi Cultural Center is an attractive, light-filled room where you can sample traditional tribal fare. Authentic dishes include traditional tacos, Hopi blue-corn pancakes, piki (paper-thin, blue-corn bread), fry bread (delicious with honey or salsa), and nok qui vi (a tasty stew made with tender bits of lamb, hominy, and mild green chiles). Breakfast is served starting at 6 .

This typical no-frills roadside diner with Formica tabletops offers both American and Native American dishes, including Navajo tacos heaped with ground beef, chili, beans, lettuce, and grated cheese. Daily specials may include anything from barbecued ribs to lamb chops to crab legs. There's an ice-cream stand in the same building. Come early—both the diner and ice-cream counter close around 8 pm.