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LANCASTER COUNTY, PA USA
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The Best Places to Eat
Pennsylvania Dutch Pie
Good ’N Plenty Restaurant
moderate
Good ’N Plenty is housed in a two-story
farmhouse built in 1871; the large “Dutch room”
(main restaurant area) was added a century
later to accommodate the customers lined up
out the door for Christ and Dolly Lapp’s delicious
home-cooked Pennsylvania Dutch dinners. They
still run the restaurant with their children and
grandchildren. Dining is family-style, with tables
seating 10 to 12 people. Once the tables are full,
the platters start coming, laden with such
favorites as crispy fried chicken, baked country
ham, roast beef, mashed potatoes, baked
country sausage, pork and sauerkraut, noodles,
chow chow (a traditional relish), pepper
cabbage, homemade bread, and more, followed
by shoo-fly pie and other scrumptious desserts.
No wonder it’s been rated one of the best
down-home dining spots in the country. And
there’s plenty more in the Bake Shop and Store,
where you can buy freshly baked pies, cakes,
and breads, and jars of apple butter or
homemade chow chow to take home.
150 Eastbrook Road, Smoketown; open
11:30 AM–8 PM Mon–Sat; closed Christmas, Jan and
early Feb; www.goodnplenty.com
Also in Lancaster County
You won’t find a setting much more authentic
than Stoltzfus Farm Restaurant (www.
stoltzfusfarmrestaurant.com; moderate)
in Gordonville for a Pennsylvania Dutch country
meal. It’s served in the Amish farmhouse where
Amos Stoltzfus grew up. The family-style menu
includes homemade hamloaf and homemade
sausage, made in their own butcher’s shop right
on the farm, accompanied by candied sweet
potatoes, brown buttered noodles, and many
other country favorites, along with shoo-fly,
cherry, and apple pies.
Also in the US
There are Amish communities scattered across
22 states of the US. Two of the largest are in
northern Indiana and southeast Iowa. At Das
Dutchman Essenhaus Restaurant and
Bakery (www.essenhaus.com; inexpensive)
in Middlebury, Indiana, large tables fill the rustic
wood-paneled dining room, where family-style
dining features old Amish recipes passed down
through generations. The restaurant serves
30 kinds of pie; if you can’t choose, take some
home from the bakery next door. In Amana,
Iowa, the family-run Ox Yoke Inn (www.
oxyokeinn.com; moderate) has been a local
favorite since 1940. It serves traditional
old-world recipes, family-style or à la carte,
using produce from neighboring farms and
Above The dark, sticky filling of shoo-fly, made from rich sorghum smokehouses. A tray of fresh-baked desserts
molasses and brown sugar, makes this pie a local favorite is presented at the end of your meal.
Left Amish quilts are renowned worldwide for their quality and
distinctive patterns, often contrasting bright colors with black