Constitution Cafe

The café is located in the front of the American History Museum. There are two places to sit. You can have a larger, sunnier room or sit next to a giant colorful painting at the café entrance. The atmosphere is better than your food choices.
The food selections are minimal (sandwich, salad, pastry). The area is clean. The employees aren’t interested in upselling or doing much else. They were cordial. They want to quickly hand you food and get you out of the line. I like having all of the food items priced, rather than guessing or having to ask for each item. Fruit pieces were $ 1.80 each. A generous house salad is $ 5.25. There are only two types of dressing, including ranch. The muffins and pastries were overprices, even by Starbucks standards. Side items were $ 2.95 but I have no idea what those items were. Sandwiches were approx $ 10. Soup was around $ 5.50. If you don’t mind going outside, you could have a larger selection of cheaper items at the vendor trucks parked along the block. I wouldn’t bring a family here. Little kids won’t understand that their hot dog, and pudding and granola bar and banana will cost around $ 20 (that doesn’t include a drink). You can’t take food out of the cafeteria area.
There are vending machines on the first floor and pricey snacks in the gift shop.

Try to eat before visiting museum and then after you’ve toured and worked up an appetite go enjoy good food at reasonable price somewhere out in the city cause this place is ABSOLUTELY NOT WORTH IT! Gross food @ outrageous prices. Don’t ruin your museum experience by stopping here.

The staff is unfriendly and bothered by you. The food is okay. The peanut butter and jelly sandwich is five bucks and very little of pb or jelly. They do have some good and healthy choices like yogurt and granola, juices, fruit. The Cuban sandwich was good but all mustard. The bread pudding was good. Expensive but convenient. Would not go back.

A really good place to get a nutritious snack and a quick bite to eat while You are resting your tired feet. The chocolate chip cookie and coffee that I had for a snack was really very good however I personally feel that they Needed to do a super better job of wiping off the table that my friend and I sat at. There were jello remnants on the table surface and on the wood parquet floor as well. Staff was very friendly. :)

HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE. AVOID.
We desperately chose this Smithsonian restaurant due to nothing else being within immediate walking distance. We should’ve walked.
The experience was completely uncharacteristic of the otherwise excellent Smithsonian experience. The staff couldn’t care less about being there, much less customer service and $ 30 for two overdone burgers, one fry and a split soft drink was a ripoff.
Do yourself a favor and catch the crapwagon outside selling crappy burgers for only normally inflated prices.

As much as I dont like giving out 1 star reviews, I feel that it is my Unilocal duty to inform you, the prospective consumer, that this place sucks donkey balls.
Based on what, you ask? Well here’s how it went down.
Since the museum is such a huge place, you will surely work up an appetite after several hours of walking around. They have a café on the first floor called Stars and Stripes but that was closed so we were directed to this place on the second floor.
Their selection of choices are not many. We opted for the Roast Beef Sandwich ($ 9.95) and a Hot Dog kids meal ($ 7.00).
The roast beef sandwich has lettuce and meat. The bread was some type of pretzel bun. What you need to know is that all their sandwiches are pre-​made. You can see what all is available in a refrigerated glass case. Who knows how long it has been sitting there. Everything about my sandwich was as dry as the Vegas desert that I reside in. If I was ever curious about how cardboard tasted, this was probably pretty close. I even tried to put some mayo on it thinking it would help a little but now I know how mayo on cardboard would taste like. Even though I was starving, I could only force myself to eat half of it. Might as well eat half a 10 dollar bill. Lol.
As for the hot dog kids meal which comes with a small 8 oz bottle of your choice of grape, apple or orange juice, originally my kids wanted the peanut butter and jelly sandwich option. We were told that they ran out of p b and j sandwiches so the hot dog it was. If you bought the hot dog by itself it was already 5 bucks. Since the dog had to be served hot, it was pulled out from a steamer, so at least it wasnt dry. It was actually tasty.
Service was questionable. It seemed like the two lady employees behind the counter did not like working there. I never got a hi how you doing or a question of if I wanted anything else. They got my stuff, rang me up, and literally said «NEXT!» like I was one customer closer to the end of their shift.
Overall, since these guys are the only closest place of sustenance within a couple blocks, they take full advantage of marking up low quality food. Basically, what im saying is that if you cant or dont want to go a couple blocks to the nearest food truck, at least get the hot dog since it is the only one that is edible even though it is overpriced.
Unilocal 2014 365 Review Challenge #169 «Since when is it constitutional to overcharge people?»

I had heard about this place and how the ice cream was supposed to be really good. Boy was I disappointed. The employees had no idea how to make a basic sundae. They had to keep looking at the board to check what they needed to add. Hot fudge? Err, no. More like cold Hershey’s syrup. The brownie was an ancient piece of hard brownie. They ran out of whipped cream. The person behind the counter kept trying all the empty cans over and over hoping that maybe one had refilled itself in the meantime. We had to wait ages for someone to find more cream then when they added it they put on such a tiny squirt it was hardly worth bothering. I won’t be going there again.

This is a very nice café with coffee, desserts, and pre-​packaged sandwiches/​salads in the ground floor of the National Museum of American History.
The café is very spacious, with bar-​style seating by the window, plenty of tables, and booths along the far wall. The ambiance is nice, and the place is light and airy due to the wall of windows looking out onto Constitution Ave. Service was prompt, and they moved the line along quickly despite the heavy traffic of visitors.
We sat in a booth and had coffee and dessert. The New York style cheesecake was amazing! Great texture and taste. The coffee was so-​so. Both the cappuccino and the latte each came in these massive one-​size cups. My cappuccino was very milky, but it was good for warming up on a cold winter’s day.