Country Side Restaurant

Lenz's Countryside Restaurant is about as local as it gets.  We're visitors, but we appreciate eating somewhere without other tourists, and we're usually the only ones at Lenz's!  They get a good crowd, and folks move from table to table greeting friends.  Small place with a very cozy atmosphere.

We come for the fish fry:  you can choose 3-piece or 5-piece; comes with roll, salad bar, and choice of potato.  The salad bar isn't as extensive as at some places, but has good choices:  nice crisp lettuce with your choice of about 6 different dressings, croutons and bacon bits; a couple kinds of pasta salad; cold baked beans; beets; coleslaw; sauerkraut; watermelon; other choices.  I missed the traditional broccoli salad that wasn't out that night and missed the traditional peas and peanut salad, but enjoyed my choices any way.

Be sure to go early:  Lenz's closes at 7 pm on Fri, which means they start putting away the salad bar about 6:30.  If you're not there by 6 pm, you're really too late for supper!  They accept credit cards, but most people pay cash and leave a cash tip.