Council House Cafe

Specialties

At the Council House Café, we’re famous for our generous-​sized sandwiches, our delicious soups, and our sensational salads. Each of our sandwiches is served on homemade French Camp bread (also available by the loaf) and are topped with specialties like our homemade honey mustard. The famous Big Willie BLT is a serious sandwich, with 10 pieces of crispy bacon and topped with our spicy garlic mayonnaise.

Our crisp salads are always a hit, and our homemade soups are known through the country!

If we still haven’t filled you up, try one of our «to die for» desserts — like our delicious bread pudding or our rich Mississippi Mud.

History

Established in 1967.

The historic log cabin that houses the Council House Café was originally a meeting place for Greenwood LeFlore, last chief of the Choctaw Indian Nation east of the Mississippi, and his chiefs during tribal negotiations. The cabin is a picturesque piece of the past. It is a 17-​by-​17-​foot structure built of white oak logs hewn to fit with broadax and adze. It was constructed around 1820 and donated in 1967 to French Camp Academy.

Now, the Council House Café serves as an eatery for locals and travelers on the Natchez Trace Parkway. Owned and operated by French Camp Academy, a Christian boarding school for at-​risk youth, the Council House Café provides training opportunities for the students of French Camp Academy and profits are used to fund scholarships for deserving young people attending French Camp Academy.