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Findlay, OH Tea Rooms
The
Spot Restaurant
Tony Packo's
Cafe
The Warehouse
Italian Dinners
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Your Guide to Toledo & Northwest Ohio restaurants and eateries
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Big Ed's Main Street
Soda Grill
Location: 5502 Liberty Avenue in Vermilion, Ohio 44089
Phone: 440-967-4002
If you ever travel Route 6 along the Lake Erie shoreline and find yourself in Vermilion, stop for a bight at Big Ed's Main Street Soda Grill. Now, this old-fashioned soda fountain captured my heart at the door (and later my taste buds would follow). Big Ed's is a vintage 1930's style restaurant and soda fountain featuring tasty food, phospates and out-of-this-world soda fountain ice cream treats. As soon as you step through the door you feel like the world stopped and you got off at yesteryear. The walls are like a time capsule of 1930's, 40's and 50's cans, bottles, containers and other memorabilia and artifacts. The decore of the booths, tables, ice cream counter, and everything else emphasizes old-fashioned style, friendly and comfortable atmosphere, and memorable lunch or dinner.
Whatever you choose to eat, whether it's a burger, hot dog or soup, no doubt you'll be pleased. But before you ask for the check, make room and time to enjoy the best darn rootbeer float in Ohio!
Holbrook House
(Gifts, Antiques &
Tea Room)
Open: Tuesday – Friday from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
(Afternoon Tea & Lunch by Reservation Wed – Sat 11a.m. – 3 p.m.)
Location: 321 West Sandusky Street
in Findlay, Ohio
Phone: 419-422-5087
Come to Holbrook House for a truly unique and special experience. Shop two
floors of distinctive gifts, home decor, framed art, tea-related items and
antiques. Share an exquisite Afternoon Tea or relaxing lunch with friends in
one of our gorgeous dining rooms. For more information such as menus and
directions, please call us. Holbrook House welcomes tour groups and specializes
in hosting parties for tea, lunch or other special events.
Swan House Tea Room
Open: Proper tea served by reservation Thursday through Saturday at 11 a.m. or
1 p.m. and gift shoppe open Tuesday through Saturday, 10-4
Location: 225 West Sandusky Street in Findlay, Ohio
Phone: 419-429-swan (7926)
The Swan House Tea Room is located in the heart of downtown Findlay in an
historic home built in 1865. The gift shoppe is filled with unique gift ideas,
home decor, tea-related items, and our fine premium loose-leaf tea. They offer
cream tea on Tuesday or Wednesday from 10:00-3:00 where guests may drop in for
tea and scones.
Proper tea is served in either our Crystal Room, with it's chandeliers and
elegant surroundings, or our Courtyard Room may be reserved for small
gatherings or parties of up to 16. Reservations are required to enjoy our meal
service of tea, scones, muffins and savories, tea sandwiches, and desserts.
The price is $16, and includes tax but not gratuity.
South
Bend Chocolate Company’s Chocolate Café And Museum
Open: Daily in May and September
Location: 820 Catawba Street, Put-in-Bay, OH 43456
Phone: 419-285-2268
The café serves coffee, chocolate, and desserts. The museum is based on the history behind making chocolate and can be visited while enjoying a collection of antique chocolate collectibles. In addition to various exhibits the museum also offers a short video to help educate about the history of chocolate making.
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Put-In-Bay RestaurantsThe Spot
Restaurant
Open: Monday - Saturday 7:00am to 9:00pm / Sunday 8:00am to 9:00pm (closes at
8pm from November 1 - March 31)
Location:
201 South Ohio Street in Sidney, Ohio 45365
Phone: 937-492-9181
Ohio is dotted with small towns known for cruising back in the day. But after your tank got low, there was only one place to go – THAT eatery.
Well in Sidney, Ohio, THAT eatery was THE SPOT both figuratively and literally. The Spot Restaurant started as a chuckwagon more than 100 years ago. It still serves up some of the tastiest cheeseburgers around.
“It was a fun going there after school and getting frosties and cokes and playing the juke box,” says Shirley (Clinehens) Ashabranner’s posting on thespottoeat.com. “I would save enough for my favorite cheeseburger. It came wrapped in a square of paper that said a hamburger from the Spot, with a pickle on top, makes your heart go flippity flop!"
If you ever yearned to visit the fictional Arnolds in the Happy Days TV show, the Spot Restaurant is as close as you can come. Even President George W. Bush stopped for a bite last time he was in Sidney, Ohio.
Spot Miller wheeled his chuckwagon into town in 1907 but Sidney officials restricted selling meals from the mobile eatery so Spot Miller kicked the wheels off and became a permanent fixture in town for generations to come, cooking up memories for all.
New owners bought the place from Spot Miller and had a grand vision of popping up in many spots across Ohio and beyond. The chain, Spot to Eat, opened in Athens, Urbana, Lima, Piqua, and Bellefontaine. Eventually, they all disappeared and only one SPOT exists today, the original!
Along the way, a more permanent building was built. Fire in the early 1940’s resulted in the exterior design seen today, including the neon sign hanging over the front door with the Spot trademark. Inside, the last renovation was 1976. In the 1950’s, the restaurant started a catering business that continues today.
The best memories shared of the best dishes served at The Spot Restaurant almost always include the tenderloin sandwich and old-fashioned cream pie!
Tony’s offers a famous sausage-and-sauce sandwich that was a product of the Great Depression when Tony opened the restaurant. The recipe is an original of Tony’s that he developed through experimentation in his kitchen. It remains a closely guarded family secret. Tony’s offers a variety of appetizers, chilies and soups, dinners, and desserts. Much of the menu contains chili and peppers in some sort of combination. The restaurant become famous during the airing of the show M.A.S.H. when Corporal Max Klinger, played by an actual Toledo native, was speaking of is home town Toledo and mentioned that Tony Packo’s had the best Hungarian hotdogs in the country. That event catapulted the restaurant to new levels and it now thrives in the Toledo area and has opened several other stores.
Located in a Historic Building, formerly a stop for the Inter Urban Train called the CDM, which ran from Columbus, Delaware, & Marion. This unique glazed brick building was converted into a restaurant in 1994, and is now The Warehouse, Italian Dinners, filled with unique antique decor, and a homey atmosphere.
At The Warehouse, you can treat yourself to the delicious, authentic Italian food of the Old World. Taste sauces and food prepared from scratch in our kitchens just like Mama would have made. Let them pour you a glass of wine and bring you your favorite meal. At The Warehouse, you can step back in time to when things were a little simpler and there was always time for great food, family, & friends.