Tapiola Restaurants

See also: Chassell, Houghton.

Feed Mill Café
(906) 334-2722
For a backroads adventure, many area residents have been taking a beautiful country drive out to this cheery, affordable café. It's in Tapiola's former co-operative store and feed mill, and sacks and other farm memorabilia set the tone. In starting the restaurant, owners Tom and Ruth Mackrain, ex-dairy farmers, wanted a place like the co-op of old where people could meet and talk about local news. It's open from breakfast through dinner. Most dinners cost around $8. Only the Friday fish fry and Wednesday ribs are more ($13 including potato and soup and salad bar). Local people know the schedule: Monday Salisbury steak, Tuesday meat loaf, Wednesday ribs, Thursday pasties and cabbage rolls, Friday fish fry, and Saturday who knows? Maybe lasagna, maybe another special, but always pork chops. One customer told Ruth he had made a point to try every restaurant pasty in Copper Country, and the Feed Mill's pasty was best. Ruth says the cafe is getting very well known for its homemade pies, soups, and breads. The Feed Mill tomato soup starts with a tomato soup base and adds ground chuck, tomato chunks, celery, onions, and her secret, slightly spicy seasonings. She's especially proud of her raspberry-rhubarb-custard pie (her own innovation), her sky-high lemon meringue, her banana cream, and her perfect berry pie made with four kinds of frozen berries. The Feed Mill enjoys accommodating groups of seniors; their restrooms were planned for wheel chairs.

On Tapiola-Otter Lake Road in the center of Tapiola, the north-south road between Pelkie and Houghton. From Houghton and M-26, turn south at the light just south of the Copper Country Mall and continue south to Tapiols. From U.S. 41 at Chassellor M-26 at Painesdale, take the Chassel-Painesdale Road to Tapiola-Otter Lake Road, turn south. From M-38 between Baraga and Mass City/Greenland, turn north to Pelkie, continue north to Tapiola. Open Mon-Fri 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sat 8-8. Wheelchair-accessible. Children's menu. No alcohol.
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