Food/Dining : Fish Creek

The Cookery
Main Street, Hwy 42Open Daily
920–868–3634
Hwy 42, Fish Creek, WI 54212

920-868-2372
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Dick and Carol Skare have been running the restaurant since 1977, and try to meld the best of Door County products with a fresh menu. The restaurant is comfortable looking, with pine wainscoting, seats about 60, and has a nice view of Main Street in Fish Creek. This is a family-type restaurant, and is a very nice place for breakfast, lunch or dinner.   The recipes are tried and true in the kitchen of their very own home.  Dick and Carol were honeymooning in Door County over thirty years ago when they were introduced to this restaurant and they’ve been at it ever since, creating a wonderful menu and atmosphere that welcomes locals and travelers too.

We eat at the Cookery often, and most recently had the new roast pork sandwich – a taste-tester’s delight, with sliced herb-seasoned roast pork, caramelized onions, roasted red peppers, Wasabi Soy Aioli, with Monterey Jack cheese.  Served on a Ciabatta roll with fries, this was outstanding.  Others in our party tried the gumbo soup, chicken Caesar salad, and perch sandwich – all were very good.

So, keep reading – they have an extensive menu, over 30 years of experience, and a great location. 

Get a window table if you can, so you can look at the road, the people and the town.   We love the casual ambiance, friendly staff, and always good food.  It can get crowded, so get there at slightly off hours to beat some of the crowds - but the wait is worth it.  Ant they have a nice area outside where you can sit while waiting.

BREAKFASTS

The breakfasts are pancakes (on the menu from the beginning) with cherries, or blueberries, or chocolate chip (a kid's favorite!), egg dishes, omelets (Spanish, veggie, Wisconsin with cheese, cheese, cheese!), a Farmer's Breakfast with hash browns with mushrooms, onions and green peppers topped with a choice of cheese, and try the scratch-made baking powder biscuits (one of my favorites) or muffins and more!  Their bakers start at 3 in the morning, so the goods are fresh!

LUNCH

For lunch, enjoy a pesto garlic burger, or chicken fillet sandwich. Or choose a Door County Cherry and Apple salad, of a bistro or tossed salad.  There's a variety of open-faced sandwiches like an ABT which is an asparagus version of a BLT, with a mound of asparagus spears, bacon strips, fresh tomato slices, and mushroom sauce topped with melted cheese. Lots of choices - you will find something you like, and you will like it!  The selection is huge, from grilled salmon sandwiches, to whitefish chowder soup to tons of salads from fresh strawberry to tossed to Caesar.

Whatever you do, get a bowl of their whitefish chowder - this is really, really good!  It is just excellent - try it!

DINNERS

Served after 4PM, diners are offered a daily special like Baked Chicken Dinner on Sunday, Old Fashioned Meatloaf on Tuesday, BBQ Ribs on Wednesday and so on – check their website for more details.

There stir-fry dinners offer quite a selection as well, like stir fry scallops; vegetables; chicken; shrimp and beef.  We love the stir fry chicken – our favorite of the stir frys we have tried.

Other dinner entrees to choose from are a grilled salmon fillet with mango-pineapple relish, broiled walleye pike, broiled whitefish with pesto sauce, and more. Beer and wine can accompany your dinner.

Get a salad, and skip all the other dressings - go right for the Vidalia onion with Summer Tomatoes! This is simply super, AND you can buy a bottle of it on the way out to take home - they make it right on the premises! They usually have two flavored coffees to choose from too, like hazelnut and French vanilla.

If you like sweets, this is one place to be. They make their bakery from scratch - awesome cinnamon or caramel rolls, biscuits and a cherry crisp here that is out of this world! Get a cherry crisp - make it ala mode and it's even better! Hopefully they will not have run out when you have a craving for a piece!  You can even get some cherry crisp to go! We know people who stop here on their way home just to pickup some cherry crisp.   The Cookery Bakery is very, very good!

Nice local and country art decorate the walls, and they also sell CDs of very gentle music, which they play and feature while you dine.

The place gets crowded - if people are waiting outside when you are thinking of going, you might want to prepare yourself for a long wait. Again, grab an earlier dinner, or late lunch to avoid some of the crowds, like we do.

We keep coming back, so go dine at The Cookery - and don't leave without trying the Cherry Crisp and Whitefish Chowder Rating: these are simply superb!!

And please tell Carol, Dick and the staff that DoorCountyNavigator.com sent you!

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