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Amish Acres Restaurant Barn
1600 West Market Street
Nappanee, IN 46550
Phone: (800) 800-4942 or (574) 773-4188 ext. 240
Fax: (574) 773-4180
Email: amishacres@amishacres.com
Web: amishacres.com
Contact: Janis Logsdon
Description: Dine amidst the pine beams on antique chairs around oilcloth tables. Famous for their Thresher’s Dinner but also serving groups a second option. Light lunches served in the Restaurant Barn with advance notice. Theme buffets available with Dinner/theatre packages.
Seating Capacity: 500
Hours: Threshers Dinner: Monday – Saturday11am – 7:00pm Sunday 11am – 6pm
Price Range : Threshers Dinner: $17.10 per person inclusive Dinner/theatre: $45.10 per person inclusive. Second Menu Option: $14.50 per person inclusive. Light Lunches: $8.95 per person inclusive
Misc: Motorcoach Parking, Gift Shop and Handicapped Accessible
Blue Gate Restaurant
105 E. Middlebury St .
Shipshewana, IN 46565
Phone: (260) 768-4725 or 888-447-4725
Fax: ( 260) 768-7075
Email: bgate@riegsecker.com
Web: riegsecker.com
Contact: Manager
Description: Enjoy some of the best traditional Amish/Mennonite home cooking in the area. Comfortable and cozy, this new facility offers intimate dining rooms tastefully furnished with Mission and Queen Anne furniture. An unforgettable experience. Dinner/Theatre packages available. Meet and greet service, gift for driver and escort with dinner purchase, cookies upon departure.
Seating Capacity: 750
Hours: Monday – Saturday 6:30am – 8:30pm Winter hours 7am – 8pm .
Price Range : Breakfast Buffet or Family Style: $11.25 per person incl: Family-Style: $16.99 – $18.99 per person incl Dinner/Theatre packages include $29 per person incl., Gospel Sing/Dinner: $25 per person incl Breakfast Club/Theatre: $19 per person incl,
Group Amenities: 2 comps per coach, meet & greet service, free gift for driver & escort with group dinner purchase, free cookies to group upon departure.
Misc: Gift Shop and Handicapped Accessible
Das Dutchman Essenhaus
240 U.S. 20 / P.O. Box 1217
Middlebury, IN 46540
Phone: (800) 455-9471 (USA/CAN) or (574) 825-9471 (x493)
Fax: (574) 825-9471
Email: alice@essenhaus.com
Web: essenhaus.com
Contact: Alice Moy, Restaurant Reservations
Description: Indiana's largest restaurant with seating for over 1,100 guests. Specializing in authentic Amish-style cooking and famous for crisp broasted chicken, real mashed potatoes, and over 29 varieties of pies. Enjoy homemade noodles, breads, and apple butter prepared and served by local Mennonite and Amish. For lighter appetites, menu dining options are also available.
Seating Capacity: 1180
Hours: Monday – Thursday 6am – 8pm, Friday – Saturday 6am – 9 p.m.
Effective January 1, 2010 - December, 2010
Lodging winter rate $74.00 (November thru April – Sunday thru Thursday)
$99.00 (January thru March – Friday & Saturday)
average summer rate $107.00, but rates do vary; please call for details
Total amount of tax paid – 12%.
Baggage handling fee - $2.00
Family-Style Dining Chicken ONLY family style meal $15.50
2-meat family style meal $16.50
(15% gratuity & 7% sales tax NOT included)
OR inclusive pricing:
Chicken ONLY family style meal $18.92
2-meat family style meal $20.14
Comp Policies
INN 1 comp per 15 paid
A qualified group = 10 or more people.
RESTAURANT 20-29 guests – 1 comp meal
30-44 guests – 2 comp meals
45-59 guests – 3 comp meals
60-114 guests – 4 comp meals
A qualified group = 15 or more people.
ML Acres Homestyle Banquets 9135 W US 20 Description: LeAnna Yoder prepares and serves a meal in the family’s Amish home. Groups can choose from a variety of menu options. Seating Capacity: 80 Mullet’s Dining, LLC 72280 CR 100 N Description: Providing homestyle country dining minutes from Amish Acres in Nappanee. Homemade meals and desserts made by the Mullet family served in a relaxed country atmosphere under the glow of gas. Hours: By reservation only on Tuesday – Saturday Group Breakfast Choices: HayStack Breakfast Breakfast Buffet: Next Door Neighbor Deli & Bakery Description: Enjoy home cooked food, prepared the way you’ve always wanted! Locally owned bakery & deli featuring fresh baked pies, cookies, muffins, sandwiches, salads, and soups or delivered box lunches to your hotel in the morning. Dining room plus outdoor front porch seating. Perfect for a light meal, snack stop, or “box lunch to go” option for groups of all sizes. Also specializing in the non-typical homemade fruitcakes in three verities: Traditional (pecans, cherries, pineapple and dates), Tropical (macadamia nuts, coconut, papaya, pineapple) and Chocolate (chocolate, walnuts, apricots, cranberries, raisins) flavors. Free delivery to Middlebury/Shipshewana area with minimum $75 order. Peterson’s Steak & Seafood House Menu (PDF) Description: Goshen’s Premier Dining Experience. Enjoy unique dining in a Victorian house built in the 1800’s. Menu includes steaks charbroiled over a hickory smoked flame to famous hand breaded fish made with a special blend of seasonings served with a sweet & tangy homemade cole slaw. Step back into the elegant atmosphere of the Victorian period while also sensing the pioneer spirit of this and other county estates. Group special buffet includes tender and flavorful, perfect Prime Rib. Slowly roasted with a 12 spice herb crust served with au jus. A truly different group dining option in Amish Country! The Carriage House Homemade Cinnamon Roll Making Demonstration & Tasting at an Amish family farm ($6 pp incl) Amish Quilting Bee & family-style meal at an Amish homestead 2011 Prices: Tiffany’s Restaurant PO Box 247/E. Lake St. Description: Enjoy mouth-watering home cooking is on the menu every day at in the cozy dining room by the stone fireplace. Family-style buffet or menu dining available. Seating Capacity: 190 The Trolley Cafe' 1100 Chicago Ave. Our specialties emphasize homemade pies, breads, muffins, sweet rolls and cheesecakes. We also create our own quiche, soups and garden fresh salads. Plan your next meeting at the Trolley Cafe! We accept reservations for 20-50 persons for rehearsal dinners, holiday gatherings, business and service club meetings or family parties. Let us help make your next event an occasion to remember. Townline Community Center 1745 S 1000 W Shipshewana, IN 46565 Nora Bontrager and her girls invite you to their homestead for delicious homecooked meals served in their dining facility. Amos helps when he can with the mashed potatoes! Choose from the traditional Wedding Dinner, Chicken Diner, Haystack Dinner, Thrasher’s Dinner, or Soup & Salad Meal. Also offering a Breakfast Haystack meal. Rates range from $12-18 pp including tax but not tip for groups of 10-80. Advanced reservations required. All meals are served family-style. Certified by the LaGrange County Health Department. Easy access for motorcoach with horseshoe shaped gravel in-out entrance-exit making it easy for pulling in and out plus for parking. Children 6 and under – ½ price Wana Banquets Country Cooking 4605 N 675 W Description: Enjoy a homemade Amish meal inside the newly constructed meeting house on the Yoder family farm. A variety of menu options are available. Seating Capacity: 50 Yoders Homestyle Cooking 10525 W 325 N Description: Dine on an authentic family-style Amish meal served in the Yoder farm dining hall. A variety of menu options available. Relax on the porch, take a horse-drawn Amish buggy ride, or experience a cooking. Seating Capacity: 110 Bob Evans 2519 Brittany Court Description: Family oriented restaurant serving groups ala-carte. No advance reservations are required. Good food at a good price. Seating Capacity: 168 Cracker Barrel 110 North Pointe Blvd Seating Capacity: 208 Dutch Kitchen Borkholder Dutch Village Description: Enjoy a homemade lunch on-site at the Dutch Kitchen. Featuring homemade soups, pies, specialty sandwiches and hand dipped ice cream. Specialty group menus available. Seating Capacity: 100 Golden Egg Pancake House 3421 Plaza Court Description: Private room available. Special group dining options available for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Located off of Exit 92 at the Indiana Toll Road I/80-90 with close proximity to group friendly hotels. Seating Capacity: 125 Old Country Buffet Elkhart Market Center Seating Capacity: 246 Perkins Family Restaurant & Bakery 107 North Pointe Blvd Seating Capacity: 180 Ryan’s Family Steak House 2810 Emerson Dr Seating Capacity: 396 Shipshewana Auction Restaurant 345 S. Van Buren St. (SR 5) Description: Sit down for some delicious Amish and Mennonite cooking, including homemade pies! Within walking distance of the Flea Market and Auctions. Seating Capacity: 206
Shipshewana, IN 46565
Phone: 260.768.3248
Contact: Melvin & LeAnna Yoder
Hours: Monday – Saturday by reservation
Price Range : Two meats family style $16, Chicken only $15, Haystack $15,
Breakfast $11, $1 per year up to 10 years old, 10 years and older Adult price.
All includes tax but not tip.
Nappanee, IN 46550
574.773.2140
Contact: Merlin & Mary Lou Mullet
Price Range : $12 per person incl tax but not tip
Mullet's Dining Menu
Served Family Style -Hash browns, scrambled eggs, sausage, croutons, cheese sauce….you put it in a haystack format as you pass along the bowls. With fresh fruit, homemade rolls, muffins, juice and coffee.
$9.25 incl tax and tip.
Minimum of 10 people required.
Fried mush, 2 meats, scrambled eggs, biscuits & gravy, 2 juices, coffee, fresh fruit and rolls.
$9.50 incl tax but not tip.
Minimum of 25 people required.
11540 W SR 120
Middlebury, IN 46540
574-825-1716
fruitcakesbydeb.com
Seating Capacity:25 indoors dining room plus 25 outdoors front porch for seated meal.
Hours: Monday-Friday 6 am – 3 pm
Saturday 6 am – 1 pm
Groups at alternative hours with prior arrangements
Price Range: Box Lunch $8.00 each plus 7% sales tax.
Fruitcakes $6 for ½ lb. $13 for 2 pound (shipping available)
Baked Goods price range $.75 to $3.00
Lunch options price range $1.50-$3.75
Misc: Motorcoach Parking, Public Restrooms, Handicapped Accessible
2476 E Kercher Rd
Goshen, IN 46526
574-534-0700
FAX 574-534-9050
petersonssteakandseafood@gmail.com
Contact: Ashley Davis, Event Coordinator
Seating Capacity: 200
Hours: Lunch & Dinner daily including Sunday’s
Price Range : Order off the menu or set-menus. See download or call for details.
Misc: Motorcoach Parking, Handicapped Accessible, Alcohol Served, Open Sunday’s
280 S. 500 W.
Topeka, IN 46571
Contact: Steve Jones Family
Reservations Needed
260-593-0162 ext 3
Description: All you can eat, served family style with homemade bread and spreads. Including; Thresher's Meal, Chicken Dinner, Famous Haystack Dinner and desserts.
Take a "breakfast break" at an Amish home. Enjoy a homemade cinnamon roll , just out of the oven, plus coffee or tea as you watch Elaine, our Amish baker, demonstrate how she makes her special delicacy. Take home some of the rolls to share with your family or friends. Cost includes a cinnamon roll, beverage, demonstration and rolls for taking home. Elaine and her family make groups feel special at their Amish farm, The Carriage House. Her strapping son calls out the family's giant Belgian horses for groups to admire as Elaine and the rest of her family are busily setting out a fabulous feast worth every calorie. Give your group a special treat - add on Elaine's cinnamon roll baking demonstration. Elaine is known throughout her community as the cinnamon roll lady, and she whips up giant batches for local fund-raisers. Yummy!
($30 pp incl tax but not tip on meal portion of $14)
Elaine Jones invites you to join her and her family and friends in an Amish quilting bee. The ladies will first serve you a delicious home-cooked, 2 meat, traditional Amish meal. Then pull up a chair around 4 original quilt frames filled with hand pieced Amish quilts. They’ll demonstrate how to piece, mark and get the quilt ready to sew. Then you’ll site beside them and participate, watch, learn or just chat as these Amish ladies lead the novice and experienced quilter in an old fashioned quilting bee.
Breakfast haystack $10.70 pp incl tax but not tip
Dinner/lunch haystack $12 pp incl tax but not tip
$25 pp for Breakfast haystack with quilting bee
$27.50 pp for dinner/lunch haystack with quilting bee
$30 pp for threshers meal with quilting bee
$15 pp for Threshers meal only
$15 pp for cinnamon roll demo with quilting bee
Topeka, IN 46571
Phone: (260) 593-2988
Fax: (260) 593-2583
Contact: Ren Springer
Hours: Monday – Saturday 6am – 8 pm
Price Range : Family Style – $11.45 per person Saturday Morning Breakfast Bar: $5.75 per person
Misc: Motorcoach Parking and Handicapped Accessible
Goshen, IN 46528
Phone: 574.534.3881
Contact: Manager
Web: TheTrolleyCafe.com
Description: Serving breakfast and lunch, we also have carry out available and welcome evening groups of 20-50 by reservation. Private lunches for tour groups can be arranged on the third floor of The Old Bag Factory.
Voice Mail: 260.768.4181 ext. 2
Contact: Amos & Nora Bontrager
Shipshewan, IN 46565
Phone: (260) 350-1787
Contact: John and Ruth Yoder
Hours: By reservation only. Closed Sundays
Price Range : Thrashers Meal – $13.00 per person, Haystack – $11.00 per person, Soup & Salad – $10.50 per person
(tax included)
Misc: Motorcoach parking and Handicapped accessible
Shipshewana, IN 46565
Phone: (260) 499-0552
Contact: Henry & Carolyn Yoder
Hours: Monday – Saturday by reservation only
Price range: Thrashers Meal – $ 14.84 per person, Haystack Dinner – $11.50 per person, Cooking Class with Dinner – $25.00 per person, Buggy Ride – $4.00 per person (tax included)
Misc: Motorcoach Parking and Handicapped Accessible
Elkhart, IN 46514
Phone: (574) 264-1890
FAX: (574) 266-6604
Contact: Manager
Hours: Monday – Thursday 6am – 10pm Friday & Saturday 6am – 11pm Sunday 6am – 10pm
Price Range : Order off the menu or set-menus. Call for details. $5-10 per person.
Misc: Motorcoach Parking and Handicapped Accessible
Elkhart, IN 46514
Phone: (574) 264-6963
Fax: (574) 264-6584
Web: crackerbarreloldcountrystore.com
Contact: Manager
Hours: Sunday – Thursday 6am –until 10pm Friday – Saturday 6am – 11pm
Price Range : Order off the menu or set-menus. $5 – 10 per person
Misc: Motorcoach Parking , Handicapped Accessible, Gift Shop
700 North Tomahawk Trail
Nappanee, IN 46550
Phone: (574) 773-2828
Fax: (574) 773-4828
Email: dv@borkholder.com
Web: borkholder.com
Hours: Monday – Friday 9am – 4pm Saturday: 7am – 4 pm
Price Range : $4 – 10 per person if order off of the menu. Special group menus available.
Misc: Motorcoach Parking , Gift Shop and Handicapped Accessible
Elkhart, IN 46514
Phone: (574) 266-6400
Fax: (574) 206-1880
Contact: George Fotopoulos
Hours: Monday – Sunday 6am – 2:30pm, other times by advance reservation.
Price Range : $5 – $10 average
Misc: Motorcoach Parking and Handicapped Accessible
4024-121 U.S. 33
Goshen, IN 46526
Phone: (574) 875-1908, Corporate Office: 1-800-753-8207
Fax: (574) 875-1721
Web: buffet.com
Contact: Toni Falconi, General Manager
Hours: Monday – Thursday 10:30am – 8:30pm, Friday 10:30am – 9:30pm, Saturday 8am – 9pm, Sunday 8am – 8:30pm
Price Range: Lunch Buffet: $9.63 per person plus tax Dinner Buffet: $9 per person includes tax and tip
Two comp meals per coach.
Misc: Motorcoach Parking, gift shop and Handicapped Accessible
Elkhart, IN 46514
Phone: (574) 264-2541
Fax: (574) 266-7806
Contact: Manager
Hours: Sunday – Thursday 6am – 10pm, Friday – Saturday 6am – Midnight.
Price Range: Order off the menu only. Senior menu available. Two comps per coach.
Misc: Motorcoach Parking and Handicapped Accessible
Elkhart, IN 46514
Phone: (574) 264-9955
Fax: (574) 266-5569
Contact: Kevin Colvin
Hours: Sunday – Thursday 10:45am – 9:30pm, Friday & Saturday 10:45am – 10pm
Price Range : Lunch $6.99, Dinner $8.99, ages 4-10 $.45 per year plus beverage, 3 and under free
Misc: Motorcoach Parking and Handicapped Accessible
Shipshewana, IN 46565
Phone: (260) 768-4129
FAX: (260) 768-7041
Email: sara@tradingplaceamerica.com
Web: tradingplaceamerica.com
Contact: Norm & Judy Beachy
Hours: (May – October) Tuesday – Wednesday 5am – 7pm Friday 7am – early pm, (November –April) Wednesday 6am – 7pm, Friday 7am – early pm
Price Range : Breakfast $3 – $4.50, Lunch & Dinner $5 – $7
Levi & Esther Hostetler
2400 S 1100 W
Shipshewana IN 46565
574.825.3314
It’s a once of a lifetime experience feasting on a traditional Amish wedding dinner in the charming setting of “Miller’s Country Kitchen.” Levi and Esther explain what an Amish wedding day is like. Groups see an Amish bride’s wedding dress up close, and hear the customary German Wedding song sung at an Amish wedding. The family has even compiled a cookbook of favorite recipes available to purchase and take home as a memento.
Homemade Bread with Apple Butter and Jelly, Real Mashed potatoes and gravy, Homemade chicken dressing, homemade noodles, salad with homemade special dressing, coffee and water PLUS
**Choose two meats:
Chicken, Roast Beef, Pizza Loaf, Baked Ham, Baked Steak with Mushroom Sauce, Pork Roast, Barbecued Meat Balls
**Choose two buttered vegetables:
Corn, Mixed Vegetables, Green Beans, Peas & Carrots
**Choose three types of pies:
Pecan, apricot pineapple, chocolate cream, banana cream, cherry, oatmeal coconut, raisin cream, lemon cream, peach, pumpkin, apple, raspberry, coconut cream, custard, coconut macaroon, peanut butter cream, Seasonal Fresh Strawberry, Seasonal Rhubard Custard
**Choose one dessert:
Date pudding, angel food cake, graham cracker pudding, lemon delight, Ice cream sundae with one topping (chocolate, caramel or strawberry), Tapioca Pudding (caramel, strawberry or orange)
Seating Capacity: 60
Hours: Monday-Saturday based upon reservation, Closed on Sunday’s
Handicapped Accessible
