Great food stops

All this talk about Amish buffets ... you know neither of them are Amish, right?

Miller's is the same ownership group that owns the former Plain & Fancy Farm, now called Smokehouse BBQ & Brews. Selling beer *and* open on Sunday. Definitely not Amish.

Best I can tell, there are two Amish restaurants here. Katy's Kitchen and Hometown Kitchen. That's it. Neither is a buffet.

 

Perhaps, but Shady Maple and Miller's offer Amish-style dishes you wouldn't find in St. Louis or Denver.

I'd count Bird-in-Hand Family Restaurant and Dienner's there, too. Both buffets.

 

Tis a fine buffet but sure tis not Amish, Essjay.

 

And only Dieners is great. Everything else is good at best.

 

If we're just talking local food, not fancy or sit down, in Delaware it's Capriotti's for a turkey sub, Casapulla's for an Italian sub. No "hoagie'. Delaware sits between the famed steak sandwiches of Philly, and Marylands's crab dishes. I think sub take-out is all we have. Casapulla's is such a famous name here, it was given as a wedding present to a Casapulla granddaughter so she could start the chain in southern Delaware.

 

I grew up around Amish and Mennonites. I now live in Indiana.

It’s impeccably cooked food.

And lacking in any sort of spice or flavoring that would make it any good.

It’s such a waste of so much effort.

It’s the Jason Garrett of food.

 

Can't totally disagree; they aren't big on spice.

But ham balls in pineapple sauce? Brown-butter noodles? Gimme.

 

I don't know how one can discuss Delaware food stops without mentioning the Charcoal Pit. Great burgers and steak sandwiches plus the best milkshakes around.

 

There’s a Mexican joint — four of them, actually — called El Paso in my little Northern Virginia slice of paradise.

It’s ridiculously good. And they put chorizo and queso on everything. That’s the dream.

 

Wooboi hot chicken, Herndon Va.

Louis' Lunch, New Haven, Ct.

Schwabl's, West Seneca, NY.

 

Hershey Farms, next to the Sight & Sound Theatre, escaped this conversation. As it should, because it sucks, though it does host a whoopie pie festival.

I mention that only because it is burning to the ground as we speak.

 

I'll nominate Skull Creek Boathouse and/or Dockside on HHI