After our tour of the exhibits Bowers still had more to offer.  This is the Tangata Restaurant located in one section of the museum overlooking the gardens and offering a contemporary mission style decor and ambiance.  The restaurant is part of the Patina Restaurant Group founded by renown Chef Joachim Splichal. 
Tangata features a Pacific Rim styled cuisine and has consistently earned four stars for its culinary excellence.  Our group was offered a menu that has starters like Maryland style crabcakes and salmon rillettes, salads like little gem Caesar or chopped salami with veggies.
We ordered the cavatelli pasta which was hand made pasta with wilted spinach, crisp shallot, parmesan in a white truffle sauce.  Sandwiches include thick cut BLT, grilled beef or lamb burger as well as tuna melt panini.  As a group we all had to taste the desserts which included chocolate croissant bread pudding, creme brulee or sorbeto and gelato.
We had the opportunity to meet with Al Kanjo, General Manager, to tell him how impressed we were with the whole exceptional dining experience Tangata offers.  It is open six days a week for luncheon with the same hours as the Bowers Museum, closed Mondays.