Malia Obama Dines in Providence During College Visit

Malia Obama had a chicken Caesar salad with a cranberry juice with seltzer and lime and sampled a few of the appetizers on the menu at XO Cafe in Providence on Tuesday as she toured the Brown University campus.

The daughter of President Barack Obama was very polite and sweet and remarkedthat the drink she ordered is a favorite of hers — as well as her dad, said Ted Newcomer, an executive for the XO Cafe’s owner Chow Fun, in an interview with the Providence Journal.

The Secret Service vetted staff members before the visit, though the head of Chow Fun Food Group and XO’s chef cooked for the President last August for a fundraiser in Newport.

Malia Obama, a high school junior, has reportedly been touring colleges including Brown, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Barnard, NYU and others.

Fans of the North Main Street restaurant will be pleased to know the group accompanying the first daughter ordered the bacon macaroni and cheese and calamari for appetizers. The mac and cheese there is widely known for being knockout good and calamari is the official state appetizer.

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