Trifter

We tried the Apache Combo, a 1/4 pound buffalo burger with tomato, lettuce, and onion, along with Coyote Fries. Coyote fries are standard fries seasoned as “Howling Hot” or “Mild.” The combo also includes Apache Soup. The soup is a “spicy blend of corn, hominy, daylily blooms, tumbleweed, moss, honeysuckle, veggies, herbs, spices.” The tumbleweed and moss are probably what give the soup its toasted, earthy taste. When ordered as a platter, the meal includes caramel yam root, a variation on candied yams that arrives in a terra cotta dish of the type usually found under potted plants, authentic to the Southwest theme, but startling to the Midwestern eye.

The store is set back from the road, and at first glance, does not seem to be a store at all, but someone’s home. As you enter the store, you see Ladyhawke’s Medicine Lodge, where you can have your ears candled and your life force tested.  This juxtaposition of Southwest Shamanism and New Age Naturopathic Medicine brings forth images of San Francisco communes of the early seventies.

Whether or not you believe in these methods, if it works for the person who seeks it, it is all to the good. The folks running the place seem sincere about their offerings, and it is a very relaxing place to eat. Spirit drumming and clay flute music created a very restful ambiance. A clay drum was available for purchase, as were cedar flutes, salt lights, and other trinkets.

Located at 614 Hausfeldt LN in New Albany, IN off Grant Line RD