Best Restaurants in Berlin
If you want to find some of the best down-home cooking in America, just follow the horse and buggy to Berlin
Located in Holmes County, the largest Amish settlement on the plant, you’ll find comfort food to make you feel right at home when you’re on your next sightseeing adventure.
Time-Honored: Boyd and Wurthmann Restaurant
This popular eatery used to be a grocery store back in the 1930s, and keeps the coffee at 75 cents to pay homage to its roots. Boyd and Wurthmann Restaurant also keeps up the pie-baking tradition of its founders, producing up to 20 varieties to choose from daily. Expect to see Amish customers there at the crack of dawn. Try the Wreck: a gut-busting stack of biscuits, home fries, eggs, cheese, your choice of meat and veggies drenched in sausage gravy to prepare for your travels through Ohio. The restaurant stays open through dinnertime, when you can dine on traditional comfort food such as pork chops, sausage, cod and liver with onions, with sides including noodles, potatoes and corn. Some menu items come in discounted portions for kids.
Dessert First: Der Bake Oven Bakery & Cafe
You’ll want to have dessert first while in a county that's a veritable cornucopia of fresh-baked goods. The cozy, comfortable Der Bake Oven Bakery & Cafe greets your nose before the friendly workers even have a chance to say hello. If you really want to save dessert for last, try a cup of homemade beefy vegetable soup, a sloppy Joe on a potato bun or a sandwich with locally made sausage. When it comes time to satisfy your sweet tooth, order the homemade ice cream with an array of cookies, pies and cakes. Take home a freshly baked loaf of bread or a box of generously glazed doughnuts and delectable apple fritters.
Championship Ribs: Cindy's Diner
If you see the little piggy peering at you from above the restaurant sign, you know you're at Cindy's Diner. The restaurant maintains bragging rights for taking the top prize at local rib cook-offs, and you can order their award-winning ribs by the full or half rack. Cindy's also whips up a Thai black Angus burger on a pretzel bun, a strawberry grilled chicken salad with caramelized pecans and hot open-faced sandwiches—you'll be lucky to find the bread under the meat and gravy. Fried chicken can also be taken out by the bucketful, though you'll need to give them a bit of time to cook it up fresh.
Big Buffet: Berlin Farmstead Restaurant
Got some hungry folks who could plow through a buffet after road tripping around Amish country? The Berlin Farmstead Restaurant offers extensive buffets for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as a full menu; you can also just go for the salad bar. It's a good spot for diners with food sensitivities, as the menu breaks down which items contain potential allergens and which choices are gluten-free. Choose the family-style meal if you want chicken, ham or roast beef along with all the trimmings to pass around the table. If you can't decide which sweet delicacy you want, the dessert sampler lets you pick a combo of smaller portions of pies, apple dumplings, date-nut pudding and more.
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