The Family Cupboard Restaurant

I visited here in 2010, 2012 and am planning to visit again in June this year (hope it’s open as Unilocal tells me it is closed?) Always yummy traditional food and lots of it. Great value!

This is a nice little place in Lancaster County that serves traditional Pennsylvania Dutch food as well as normal sandwiches. I can’t speak on behalf of the buffet, but I got a turkey club when I was there and it was very yummy. The prices and service are also pretty good. I would definitely recommend stopping by here for lunch if you’re in the area.

Great family restaurant with good food.
We went to dinner here on a Sat evening around 6pm. We had no problem getting a table and very soon after our waitress arrived to get our drink order. We both had the buffet and I was pleasently surprised with the quality of the fish (sat is fish night). Other items on the buffet are the regular Pa Dutch items that were all good.
The only issue I had is the lack of interesting deserts. All in all it was a nice night out

Simple but tasty country food. We got there around 3:10 pm and had a quick lunch buffet. Clam chowder was good; I would love to try other soups if it was not that filling. Love their roasted chicken, bread filling and hams. Beets and lima beans are good too.
+1 for desserts but –1 for salad (see? country kitchen food = unhealthy food). I had peach cobbler (in the hot section) topped with vanilla ice cream. Same good as I had in Georgia.

My least favorite place we ate at while visiting the Lancaster area. I went with the buffet, but there is a menu also if you want other items. The buffet is kind of small, with the basics of all the «Amish» style places, but nothing that stood out.

A decent little country kitchen restaurant. My friend and I went here for a late lunch and decided to get the buffet. I left quite full and satisfied. The food here is just what you want from a country kitchen style buffet. Heavy, filling and rich. I had meatloaf, stewed beef, mashed potatoes, beans, beets, and much more. It was all great, filling and very rich in flavor. For dessert, I had a piece of carrot cake and pecan pie. I cleaned all my plates. I never do that. So, yeah, go and get the mashed potatoes and smother them in beef gravy.

Excellent food!!! Everything tastes as though it were prepared by hand (which it is). The buffet has a great variety of foods. I also absolutely love the views from inside the restaurant which look over acres of beautiful and peaceful Amish farmland. No complaints here!

We had originally planned to go to Dienner’s, but it was closed for Ascension Day (yeah, that puzzled us too), so we went to Family Cupboard instead. Seems like this place is owned by the same family, but operated by the kids.
$ 13 for dinner buffet was a good deal. Got to try some Amish specialties like pickled beet egg (quite good!), shoofly pie, and chicken pot pie soup. The ham was really good, the chicken (both roasted and fried) were just so-​so, a little soggy. Some of the veggies, like the green beans, seemed like they came out of a can. Others were too sweet, like the beets — in general, I think the Amish tend to have a strong sweet tooth because a lot of their pickled veggies are quite sweet. However, overall, there was a good variety and lots of turnover.

This is my favorite Amish buffet. The chicken corn soup is amazing and the rest of the food is better than what you would get at competing buffets. Their deserts are delicious and I like the environment.
I go here if I want to sit down and eat and I go to Dienners if I want a chicken to go. I don’t like the rest of the food at Dienners which I think is the closest competition for this place. I like all of the food at the Family Cupboard.
The seating and buffet area are open and it doesn’t have the sense of a feeding frenzy that other buffets can have. It also feels less touristy than the larger more expensive buffets. We have a home in the area and this is my go to place to take out of town guests.
They have a AAA discount if you ask for it.

We spent the day at the Gordonville Mud Sale and then headed to The Family Cupboard for a bite to eat. Our group — 6 adults and 2 children — left over-​full and needing a nap! The food was good, the staff was very friendly, and the restaurant was clean. I would definitely stop here again and spend the $ 12 on the buffet. My one year old ate for free and kid over three pay less than $ 1 per year of age.

Was out to see the Amish Country and this restaurant came recommended by the Amish House that I visited. It was a busy place, which in my estimation is always a good thing. I had a little of everything on the buffet, but they also have a regular menu. My favorite was the beef and gravy with real mashed potatoes– DELISH — truly a fat kids dream! I could have taken and eaten the whole tray. I started with the best creamy potato soup!!! It was to die for! Now I know that the Amish way is not to be the best about anything, but this place was great. Baked chicken, ham, meatloaf (yes meatloaf), and brussel sprouts. WOW! Dessert was a piece of coconut cream pie! $ 10! WOW — good friendly service and clean! don’t think you can get much better!

My friend and I were out and about doing some Saturday shopping in Lancaster County and were at the end of our day when we decided to stop in here and have a late lunch. I must say by the time we walked out I felt like I was in a food induced coma!
The food was absolutely delish!
We got the buffet which consisted of some definitely home made cookin… Meatloaf, Fried chicken, REAL turkey, REAL beef, Buttered noodles, mashed taties, salad bar and last, but certainly NOT least, the homemade desserts! Peanut butter pie, pumpkin roll, tapioca, apple pie, Sugar free desserts and on & on. Most of them are made on site except for maybe a few that are brought in from a local deli. The waitress was very pleasant and accommodating.
We were there on a Saturday afternoon and the buffet was $ 12.69 Which considering how good the meal was I thought this was a good deal.
Check it out for yourself. You won’t be disappointed.

Decently sized buffet for the price. I wouldn’t give it more than three stars. The food was okay for what you paid. Definitely a cheaper option than the other smörgåsbord type places.
Dried corn was surprisingly good. The garbage-​soup looking cooked beef was actually awesome. The pan fried fish on weekends is also great. The dinnertime desserts were awesome too.
Met a Chinese tourist in front of the shoofly pie. Exchanged traditional «why is a Chinese person in this kind of place» greeting.
Otherwise, nothing notable about the restaurant. You kind of have to like this kind of food. I mean, I love buttered noodles and barrels of fried chicken. To be honest, the food here is comparable to what you get at the other «big name» smörgåsbord places… except you’re not overpaying.
Don’t miss the gigantic gift shop upstairs.

Nice, moderate size buffet for a reasonable price. I can’t say that I was as impressed as some other reviewers, but it was pretty good, and I’m not complaining.
Unfortunately the ‘good’ desserts don’t come out until dinner (after 4), when I assume the price is a bit higher.
Overall, not bad.
They also have a gift shop upstairs.

I loved this restaurant. I don’t know if the food was authentic as I had never had Amish or Mennonite food prior to eating here, but it sure was delicious. There was a salad bar, a decent array of good old-​fashioned foods (think meat & potatoes type of deal), and an incredibly impressive dessert spread — you’re in Amish country, so go ahead and eat some shoo-​fly pie!
There is a gift shop upstairs with some educational books on the Amish, t-​shirts and sweatshirts and whatnot. I didn’t buy anything, but I had my eye on the peanut butter schmier. They have it available on the buffet so I tried it spread on a dinner roll, and it was delicious.

This is my favorite place to eat when I come to Lancaster twice a year. I stay for a 4 day weekend and I come here at least twice. Everything on the breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets is just good old home cooking comfort food. My mouth is watering thinking about it but I have 2 ½ months before I go back.

My family and I found this place by accident while on vacation, and I’m so glad we did! My husband and I both got the buffet, which was incredible, especially the rotisserie chicken and buttered noodles! The kids’ menu was also a wonderful surprise. A great variety at a very reasonable price, and the portion sizes were huge! It was so nice to watch my son eat healthy, non-​fried food! I would definitely eat here again and again. As far as it being authentic Amish cooking, there were several Amish families dining there, so I took that as a positive sign.

My boyfriend and I happened on this place while on the way to our beloved Dienner’s Country Restaurant which seat their lasts guests at 6pm on a Saturday. We weren’t going to make it so we called to see what they could do and they told us about this place. What a great find! This place has a nice, cozy, homey wooden interior feel like a cabin.
We get the buffet as we always do. Since we were there on a Saturday they also had fried shrimp and fish. Corn and mash delicious as usual. The food was just as good as Dienner’s and they were open until 8! =)
Though it is a little more expensive than Dienner’s it was worth it because we didn’t miss out on the yummy Amish food we drove all the way from NYC for. We were not disappointed and look forward to coming back here very soon!

I have dreams about this place. it is so good. the buffet will change your life. you will sell your children for their food.

Nice family restaurant that offers Amish/​Mennonite dishes off the menu or through a buffet.
I ordered the chicken dumpling soup, which was nice, however, the chicken consistency seemed as if it came out of a can (although the waitress insisted it wasn’t). It came with the option of 2 sides, I ordered the baked lima beans (not what I was expecting, but tasty), and the sweet corn nuggets (pretty much a hush-​puppie/​nugget made of sweet corn, and served with breakfast syrup — ?).
My friend ordered the Philly Cheesesteak sandwich, which was very large, and had a sauce on it, very different from what is typically expected of a cheesesteak sandwich. She said it was good though.
Enjoyed being among locals, and seeing a family talk with the waitress, who seemed to be a family friend.