Next to Eureka CA good place to eat

[Robert W]

This will take you back to the 1800s and the days of logging Redwood Trees on the Pacific Ocean and having food where loggers used to eat.

When I used to eat there, the meals were complete, including cakes and pies for dessert. The setting is a logging area setting. Check to make sure it is open should you want to eat there.

 

[Concerned American]

This will take you back to the 1800s and the days of logging Redwood Trees on the Pacific Ocean and having food where loggers used to eat.

When I used to eat there, the meals were complete, including cakes and pies for dessert. The setting is a logging area setting. Check to make sure it is open should you want to eat there.

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Great place, I've eaten there multiple times when I was younger. Don't have near the appetite that I had then, so it isn't so much of a draw for me anymore. I would take the family there in a second though.

 

[Blaster]

Cracker Barrel Restaurants are similar.

 

[Robert W]

Great place, I've eaten there multiple times when I was younger. Don't have near the appetite that I had then, so it isn't so much of a draw for me anymore. I would take the family there in a second though.

I think it is still closed for renovations. I don't eat as I could when I was 21 either. I found the place thanks to my parents living close to Myers Flat, CA and what a treat going there was.

 

[Robert W]

Cracker Barrel Restaurants are similar.

The nearest to me is about 7.75 miles distant. I checked the menu and it seems worth trying. When I used to eat at Samoa Cookhouse, you had to be Paul Bunyan like to eat all the food.

 

[Concerned American]

Cracker Barrel Restaurants are similar.

Kinda, but not really. The Samoa Cookhouse hearkens back to a "loggers chow hall." It is one of those places that people say, "If you leave hungry, its your own fault." Lots and lots of great food.

 

[Concerned American]

I think it is still closed for renovations. I don't eat as I could when I was 21 either. I found the place thanks to my parents living close to Myers Flat, CA and what a treat going there was.

I haven't been in years. I wasn't aware that it was closed.

 

[Robert W]

I haven't been in years. I wasn't aware that it was closed.

A poster on this very thread mentioned he thinks Cracker Barrel is real good. I had their food delivered this evening and honestly it would be tossed in the garbage at Samoa Cookhouse. Samoa Cookhouse is leaps and bounds much better food. Samoa cookhouse is half the cost as well.

 

[Concerned American]

A poster on this very thread mentioned he thinks Cracker Barrel is real good. I had their food delivered this evening and honestly it would be tossed in the garbage at Samoa Cookhouse. Samoa Cookhouse is leaps and bounds much better food. Samoa cookhouse is half the cost as well.

Yeah, Cracker Barrel used to be pretty good but the quality of their food has slipped considerably. Samoa Cookhouse was a real good place--I hope they continue.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Yeah, Cracker Barrel used to be pretty good but the quality of their food has slipped considerably. Samoa Cookhouse was a real good place--I hope they continue.

Cracker Barrels are still good in the south. If you don't have southern cook, they are useless.

 

[Robert W]

Cracker Barrels are still good in the south. If you don't have southern cook, they are useless.

We are comparing it to Samoa Cookhouse across the bridge from Eureka, CA. Chain restaurants always have the same recipes. I know this because I have had chain chefs as clients and they explained it is to make sure all the food is the same quality. Samoa Cookhouse also has excellent steaks and roasts at a very good price.

 

[Robert W]

This will take you back to the 1800s and the days of logging Redwood Trees on the Pacific Ocean and having food where loggers used to eat.

When I used to eat there, the meals were complete, including cakes and pies for dessert. The setting is a logging area setting. Check to make sure it is open should you want to eat there.

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Here is a report of how it was when I used to eat there.

EUREKA — If you’re like me, you vacillate between eating right and going to the gym, and having to wear your stretchy pants because you overate. I usually lean towards the healthy side, but sometimes gluttony wins out.

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Recently my family and I took a trip to Eureka. This was my first time that far up the coast and I was excited to see and explore the city. Once almost exclusively a logging town, Eureka is now home to a vibrant art community, Humboldt State University and Lost Coast Brewery. Downtown is perfect for strolling and the unique and inviting shops entice serious browsing.

But this was not the Eureka I had heard about. In 1991, my husband, along with the entire Butte College Football team, ate at a restaurant called the Samoa Cookhouse. For him, Eureka and Samoa Cookhouse are synonymous. We had to try it.

Located across Eureka Bay, Samoa Cookhouse is the last surviving cookhouse in the west. Started in 1890 to serve the camps of lumberjacks who worked in the area, the restaurant keeps up the tradition of serving hearty meals “lumber camp style.”

The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. There is no menu — simply sit at one of the long community tables and the waitress brings out bowls and platters of food. You eat until you are full — if you are still hungry, they bring more food.

We went for breakfast. We sat down and were immediately served coffee and juice. Breakfast that day included biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, sausage links, hash browns, and inch-thick slices of homemade toast. The wait staff was friendly and ready to refill any bowl that emptied — which happened a few times. The meal was hot and delicious, and my boys were in gluttonous heaven. Afterward, we toured the museum.

(You could read what was to be served on posted signs)