Chefs, in the know, love Lancaster County. Because we love food, here. Our farms produce some of the finest ingredients a restaurant can buy.
Many premier Pennsylvania restaurants celebrate Lancaster County by buying from our farmers and promoting our farms on their menus.
This page will explore a few of these restaurants, and their chefs.
In Downtown Lancaster
Chefs Sean Cavanaugh and Michael Carson are crazy for local food from local farms.
These high-end, iron chefs trek through local pastures, barnyards, and markets in search of the finest regional cuisine money can buy.
The John J. Jeffries menu and website is an epicurean sample of the best of Lancaster County foodways.
These guys search for, and showcase, pastured black Tamworth hogs from Meadow Run Farm, pond-raised, organic ducks from the Davie Stoltzfus farm, grass-fed beef from Larry Herr's Cresbrook Farm, microgreens from Green Meadow Farms in Gap, etc. etc. etc.
These guys love good food from local farms. You will too. Their website is Here.
In Downtown Lancaster
Tim Carr is a another Lancaster County chef who celebrates our local farmers and fine dining.
Each summer, Tim's restaurant hosts a dinner for the week-long "Buy Fresh, Buy Local" festivities.
He is also a huge fan of Lancaster's Central Market, located next-door to his restaurant. Tim sells his top-shelf foods at a stand in that market. He also has a gourmet foods "corner grocery store" a few steps from his restaurant.
Tim Carr loves Lancaster County farms and foodways. It's a mutal admiration thing. His website is Here.
In Downtown Lancaster
Effie Ophelio Restaurant is the creation of executive chef Eric Howton and his wife, art professor Allsion Puff.
The restaurant is a downtown-Lancaster bistro that celebrates local farmers and Lancaster County market gardeners.
Chef Howton is featured in the online film "Buy Fresh, Buy Local", Here.
He recently co-hosted a "Dinner on the Farm" fund-raiser to help re-start a historic Lancaster farmers' market, Lancaster's Eastern Market, built in 1883. The $150-per-ticket foodie fund raiser was held at Dan and Amy Yocum's Promised Land Farm, near Millersville. Because gourmet food is fresh-from-the-farm food.
The Effie Ophelia restaurant website is Here.
In Downtown Lititz
Meanwhile, Elsewhere:
"Gourmet" Magazine gets eloquent about the Best American Farm-to-Table Restaurants. HERE.
Do a Road Trip. Try them all. OK. Maybe just a few. Send your compliments to the chef and farmer, both. And to the wait staff for sure.
