DINERSAURUS CAFÉ OFFERS DINOSAUR TREATS AND CHINESE DISHES

CAFÉ OPENS SATURDAY, MAY 14, AND ANSWERS QUESTION:
DID T. REX TASTE LIKE CHICKEN?

The Museum and Restaurant Associates (RA) have opened the DinerSaurus Café on 4 as part of the new exhibition Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries. This landmark exhibition presents the most up-to-date look at how scientists are reinterpreting many persistent and puzzling mysteries of the dinosaurs: what they looked like, how they behaved, and how they moved. And now the DinerSaurus Café visitors can imagine how they might have tasted!

One of the highlights of the Dinosaurs exhibition is that modern birds are today's theropod dinosaurs, sharing more than 50 anatomical features with the great tyrannosaurs and Velociraptors, including a wishbone, swiveling wrists, and three forward-pointing toes. Diners can imagine the taste of the descendants of T. rex while munching on several surviving theropods including sesame chicken, roast duck, and smoked turkey.

The dinosaur-themed menu also features a number of Chinese dishes native to the Lioaning Province where many of the groundbreaking feathered dinosaur fossils highlighted in the exhibition were unearthed. Popular child-friendly specialties such as dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets and cookies in the shape of Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus and Triceratops will also be served.

The DinerSaurus Café on 4 is open daily from 11:00 a.m. until 4:45 p.m., May 14, 2005, through January 8, 2006. See complete menu.