Melody Mill

Here's a day for you with the first of two small/town or country bars not yet on the Yelpscape. I had grabbed a bowl of soup at Chet & Emil's and figured to eat somewhere down the road so lunch was not in my sights.
   I spoke at length with the owner Mike who told me that his parents had owned this for years when it was a dancehall adjacent to a bar which burned in '06. The satellite photos are so out of date that the bar's still in them and the business is not listed on the map.
   He and his wife, who was manning the grill in kitchen, had owned a bar briefly a few years back before concentrating on building houses. The market for homes has been so down in recent years that they decided to refurbish the old dance hall and turn it to a restaurant/bar.
   The low cielinged room has a really nice color scheme of brown red and earth tones with a formica bar resembling stone and beautifully tiled floors. The resrooms are tiled as well and there is some really nice flowing attention to detail. Big windows along the whole south end of the room really open it up.
   Mike's pretty personable and if his wife cooks as well as he takes care of customers in the front they'll be there for quite awhile. I thought 5 bucks for a Bud & a shot of Jameson was pretty reasonable a half hour up the road. Try $4.50 here and a trip in Mr.Peabody's Way Back Machine. I'm hoping a lunch update'll throw 'em an extra star.